self-struggle Quotes

A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

I have been struggling to find my way back into my body my whole life.

True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires an attempt to make a definite change in oneself, and that change is a kind of struggle with one's false self.

You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?

Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.

I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?

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

life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.

My weight has always been a struggle for me.

The biggest battle in life is with yourself

I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can't imagine how often I've tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne - to beat her down, hide her.

I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.

When I'm at the greatest odds with my body, it's usually because I feel my body's betraying me, whether that's been in the past, struggling with my weight and feeling that I couldn't eat what I wanted to eat, or that I couldn't get my body to do what I wanted it to do.

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.

Doing battle with themselves that way, every day, all the time and sometimes it sucks, but other times it results in people making sort of a dream comprehensible to someone else.

My struggles with myself seldom reach aerobic level.

I've been trying to make it my own way in an industry full of heels walking around in babyface costumes, and that brought out the worst in me.

I asked for help, which is the hardest thing in the world.

The greatest enemy one ever faces is one's own self.

The self must be a tense bow. It must struggle with opposites rather than harmonize them, rather than turn the tension over to the great instruments of last manhood the skilled bow unbenders and Jesuits of our days, the psychiatrists, who, in the same spirit and as part of the same conspiracy of modernity as the peace virtuosos, reduce conflict.

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

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.

There's something deep inside of me. There's someone else I've got to be.