Ally Condie Quotes

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.

If you don't believe in yourself, somewhere or another, you sabotage yourself.

When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.

I used to consider myself weak.

I'm still conscious of whether people really accept me, but that insecurity makes me stronger.

A conscience is a troublesome thing at times. I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning and I spent the time feeling what a nothing I was, and wishing I was so very different. Then the morning's post brought me a letter from a friend, saying I was so this, so that - it made me really cry, I was so grateful.

Doubt, not self-reflection, comes from a destructive energy, and when it rears its head, I talk to it like a lunatic.

Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.

I'm not good," he said, piercing me with eyes that absorbed all light but reflected none, "but I was worse.

She wept with shame for her lack of will and with fear for a love she couldn't control.

Somehow, in many of those near-miss instances, I've managed to fight through and continue. But in all these situations, even when they're apparently going well, I feel I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.

There are certain things we come into this world having to defeat. And for me, and I would not be surprised if a lot of women feel this same way, it's this thing of not being 100 percent comfortable with myself.

Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.

I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart -I am listening and I am listening because what I'm playing isn't something I'm thinking about, it's something I'm feeling all over.

I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself

A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

I was working through a lot of challenges at every angle of my life, and a lot of self-doubt, a lot of pity-partying. And I think every woman in her twenties has been there - where it feels like no matter what you are doing to fight through the thing that is holding you back, nothing can fill that void.

There's not one human being on the planet earth who has never felt, at some point, unaccepted. At some point in our lives, we feel like we're not good enough, but we have to step back and realize that we are.

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

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

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 just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.