Walt Kelly Quotes

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.

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.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.

It ain't the rain, the snow, the boss, the competition, the spouse, the money, the car, the job, or the kids - it's you! And it always has been.

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

Every man is his own worst enemy

I’ve blamed her for all of this, for leaving, for ruining me. And maybe that was the seed of it, but from that one little seed grew this tumor of a flowering plant. And I’m the one who nurtures it. I water it. I care for it.I nibble from its poison berries. I let it wrap around my neck, choking the air right out of me. I’ve done that. All by myself. All to myself.

In the end you will be your own undoing. You can't escape you.

Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.

You will find that our enemies are our own kin. It is they who betray us. So learn this most important lesson-in the end, our worst enemy is ourselves

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.

I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

We are really the victims of our own problems.