Jesse Owens Quotes

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

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

I think this idea of fighting the enemy within is sort of more interesting than fighting an external enemy.

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

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.

The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

I was not fighting myself at all as I used to.

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

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

The stories I want to tell are when we're our own heroes and our own enemies, and I don't think that's a rude thing to ask for. I don't think that's something I should apologize for.

I look in the mirror, my only opponent

I think the biggest obstacle I still have to overcome is myself, and just kind of struggling every day with what to do with the work and where to go next.

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

The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.

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

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

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