Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Man is his own worst enemy.

beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

My biggest enemy is typically me.

He has no worse enemy than himself.

Your enemy is your own self in a different uniform.

My biggest enemy is me and even I can't stop me

Every man is his own worst enemy

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.

The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.

You will find that our enemies are our own kin. It is they who betray us. So learn this most important lesson-in the end, our worst enemy is ourselves

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it that when life can be so hard and difficult, we compound it by self-sabotage, doing terrible things? That's always been my main area of inquiry, and it does lead you to dark places.

I think my worst enemy is me.

I get in my own head, and at the end of the day, I'm my biggest critic, and I'm my worst enemy, too.

The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.

From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside.

Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.

Ain't nobody messin' with you but you