Eugene Ormandy Quotes

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

I can only think seriously of trying to live up to an ideal, to improve myself, if I am split in two pieces. There must be a good “I” who is going to improve the bad “me.” “I,” who has the best intentions, will go to work on wayward “me,” and the tussle between the two will very much stress the difference between them. Consequently “I” will feel more separate than ever, and so merely increase the lonely and cut-off feelings which make “me” behave so badly.

The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

I think once a person realizes that they are every day either sowing into their life either potential success, or sowing into their life potential failure, they would all of a sudden go okay, I've got to figure out what I'm going to do.

Think doubt and fail. Think victory and succeed.

I was never at my best when I was at my worst. When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

I had to learn how to think as a positive human being, before anything.

The thing is, we live in a contemporary world, and being able to make yourself the best person you can possible be can be difficult. But as long as you're trying to figure it out, and you're really looking in the right direction, everything's going to be all right.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

The biggest challenge is the fight you have on your own.

You can't escape from yourself, can you?

I'm getting stronger as a person, but sometimes I just need to get over myself!

We always have the potential to rise. Rise out of our slump. Rise out of our negative thoughts. Rise out of our comfort zone. Rise out of our complaints. GET UP AND RISE. Rising is a choice that's one powerful thought away.

When I go out I get so much love I gotta change my way of thinking.