Sri Aurobindo Quotes

Every man is his own chief enemy.

beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

I think my worst enemy is me.

He has no worse enemy than himself.

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

The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.

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.

The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

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

I'm my own worst enemy and I know that.

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.

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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.

My biggest enemy is typically me.

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.