Andre Malraux Quotes

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

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

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

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

You can't escape from yourself, can you?

The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self.

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

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.

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

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

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

There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I'd love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.

I can know what Brian Cage is doing before he's doing it because he's doing me. I've been facing the man in the mirror my entire life. That's been my hardest battle is the one where it's me versus me.

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.

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

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

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

A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.

I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that.

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

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