Carlos Castaneda Quotes

Do not forget: seek to win all your battles, including those you fight against yourself. Do not fear the scars. Do not be afraid of victory.

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

It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.

It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

I practice martial arts not to win over other people but to win over my own heart.

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.

The theme of 'Karate' is about fighting yourself to break down barriers and move forward.

Some of the things I've had to overcome in my past, fighting helped me deal with a lot of struggles. Obstacles in life don't make you a great fighter, but fighting - or, I should say, martial arts - helps you overcome your obstacles.

Only by confronting your demons can you ever hope to conquer them.

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.

The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls.

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.

Resolution is struggle. Resolution is ego. Resolution is saying, "I cannot live spontaneously. ".

A martial arts practice hall, a dojo, is a place you go to practice being the best you can be. But the true combat in a dojo is not between one person and another as most people believe it to be. The true combat in a martial arts practice hall is between the people within ourselves.

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

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.