Brendon Burchard Quotes

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.

You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart.

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 gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

I'm not a fighter, but in my mind I'm fighting every day. 'What's new? What am I doing?' I'm fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren't samurai, but my soul is.

It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.

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.

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

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

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.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

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

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

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

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.

I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

Character is primary. What happens as far as plot and events is not as intriguing to me as what's happening inside this particular person.

I don't feel like a 40-year-old. I feel more like four 10-year-olds, each pulling in a different direction.