Jason Pierre-Paul Quotes

Freedom is the freedom you choose, when you're not getting in your own way. The best way to start every day is to wake up and wash your face and look yourself in the mirror, right in the eyes of your reflection, and say, "don't get in my way." Because it's only when we get in our own way that we have to step back or step aside or step over here and not walk at all.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

I spent a long part of my childhood repressing my more animalistic desire systems, and in a way, it permits me to do some of the stuff that I would want to be doing in a way that's more comfortable and doesn't break my internal rules. It expands the realm of possibility.

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

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

The only thing holding us back is ourselves.

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

You are the only thing holding you back from happiness. You have the ability to change your life radically for better or worse.

The only person who can stop you from reaching your goals is you.

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

I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.

Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you have condemned them, do not despair of yourself. For both ruin and recovery are from within.

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

We all have them, those parts of us that are the greatest parts of us and the worst parts of us. Sometimes we're put in circumstances and bad choices are made.

I always worked pretty steadily. But maybe out of some kind of fear, I put the brakes on letting myself be as successful as I'd like to be. More and more, I've taken the brakes off and let whatever happens happen.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

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

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.

The only one who can beat me is me.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.