Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes

He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

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

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

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

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.

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.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

I prepare myself to fight; I prepare myself for myself.

The toughest opponent is me. A lot of times, you don't want to train. You don't want to box. Sometimes, life hits you to the point where you don't even want to live. You have to fight with that person. You have to make yourself wake up in the morning. You have to make yourself watch your weight. That's how I fight with that person.

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

I'm not really interested in anyone's record or anyone - I'm always fighting with myself. I always try to do my best.

When you fight against your own weaknesses, there's something embarrassing about it.

Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

When I read the Bible, I see that we should have victory in our life and be overcomers, and I can't even control my temper. I'm impatient. I'm hard to get along with. I'm selfish and self-centered, and I don't seem to have any control over it.

If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.

Fighting is not internal, but it can be very spiritual. Everything acting is internal. One of my problems in making the transition is pulling back, but I'm working on it.

Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.

I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.

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

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.

Effort is between you and you.