Dalai Lama Quotes

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

Your enemy is your own self in a different uniform.

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.

Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in your living flesh, for he is the other part of yourself.

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

Every man is his own worst enemy

My toughest enemy is in the mirror - would you look at that.

Do you even know who the enemy is?" "I think... it's me".

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.

beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.

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

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Too often, I have not been what I wanted to be; I've succumbed to pressures. Yes, I have. The things I've done that I liked, I've always done against advice.

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

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

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

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.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

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

I think my worst enemy is me.

I'm my own worst enemy.