Battle Within Quotes

#1. There is no success in this world without first conquering the battle within your mind.

Preston Ely

#2. We have to be very cautious not to accept the scam of polarization we see in the media. It is not in fact between secularists and Islamists, it is a battle within the Islamic reference.

Tariq Ramadan

#3. Foggy hangover ... fending off sloth and torpor ... the battle within!!!!!

Mukesh Kwatra

#4. While practicing mindfulness, don't be dominated by the distinction between good and evil, thus creating a battle within oneself.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#5. Never forget, the greatest battle we'll ever face is the battle within ourselves.

Brad Meltzer

#6. Fights and quarrels don't come from lack of skill in conflict resolution. They don't come from people who are irritating. They come from desires that battle within. My desires are occupying the place of command and control inside my heart. Behavior Begins with the Heart

Tedd Tripp

#7. When I had independence, it was a constant battle within me to figure out when am I on my own. And also the insecurity that my life engendered, especially as a freelance cartoonist, kept me in a constant state of anxiety as to whether I am going to be able to meet my financial obligations.

Al Jaffee

#8. The only battle to win is the battle within, that place where we realize that we deserve to have and create all that we want in our lives.

Ali Vincent

#9. The Balance, my boy, is the war that has been waged since before time was time, the battle within ourselves to do what is good and reject what is bad. It is a delicate line we all walk, a constant struggle of push and pull.

Nikolas Lee

#10. The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in a single, solitary, even humble individual. For it is within the soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Robert Collier

#12. A person who has power doesn't seek to challenge others, their battles are within.

Frederick Lenz

#13. Freud's antique notion of women as diminished men is quite wrong. Biology instead reveals every man's battle to escape the woman within.

Steve Jones

#14. The Good News means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of self-deception. It keeps us from denying that though Christ was victorious, the battle with lust, greed, and pride still rages within us.

Brennan Manning

#15. Attitude determines how the "inner battle" is won.

Israelmore Ayivor

#16. He could live in this shifting place of betrayals within betrayals, of no loyalties honored, of the strong crushing the weak, no more. He preferred soldiering where you knew who your enemies were before the battle began.

Kathleen Koen

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

Ben Okri

#18. Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#19. Elizabeth Warren is, I think, a great demonstration of the kind of movement-oriented model-wielding power from within the Senate. Over and over, she's rallied tons of people to battles that they don't normally get involved in.

Ben Wikler

#20. Our poisoned hearts must be cured. And the most difficult battle to be won against the enemy in the future must be fought within ourselves, with an exceptional effort that will transform our appetite for hatred into a desire for justice.

Albert Camus

#21. When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've got to pick and choose your battles.

Austin Butler

#22. Myths of the heroes are cosmic creation myths in microcosm. They depict, in no matter how subtle variation, the eternal battle we wage to release the creative energies within ourselves and in the world.

Dorothy Norman

#23. The greatest war every fought, and are still fighting, where more people have been defeated and died, is the war within.

Anthony Liccione

#24. The only battle that matters is the one within.

Alexia Purdy

#25. Sites of battle held on to a madness, as if the blood that had soaked into the soil remembered pain and terror and held locked within it the echoes of screams and death cries.

Steven Erikson

#26. The greatest enemy we can face is ourselves, and the greatest battle is against the darkness within.

Derek Landy

#27. Wisdom lies in recognizing the dangers that lie within us and doing battle with them daily.

Max Anders

#28. All significant battles are fought within self.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#29. A genuine primary is a fight within the family of the party - and, like any family fight, is apt to be more bitter and leave more enduring wounds than battle with the November enemy.

Theodore H. White

#30. Our greatest battles lie deep within our own psyches as we face fear, insecurity, and self-doubt. These internal adversaries pose a far greater threat to our lives and our well-being than the external difficulties of daily life. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Plato

Dan Millman

#31. Rather than finding the devil "out there," we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.

Shane Claiborne

#32. Life's essential harmony is within each of us. So also is life's brokenness. To be part of transformation is to look falseness in the face, to passionately name it and denounce it in our world, and at the same time to clearly identify its shadow within our own hearts and to do battle with it there.

J. Philip Newell

#33. With God, anything that stands against you will always be inferior to what resides within you.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#34. There is a god in every single one of us. And there is evil in every single one of us. The true battle between good and evil is fought within.

Anonymous

#35. Sir, I am not a brave man ... The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. I have never been within the sound of gunshot or in sight of battle in my whole life that I wasn't so scared that I had sweat in the palms of my hands.

George S. Patton

#36. Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive solution.

Erich Fromm

#37. A war is coming, a battle that will stretch from the prehistoric forests of the ancient past to the cutting-edge research labs of today, all to reveal a true mystery buried deep within our DNA, a mystery that will leave readers changed forever .

James Rollins

#38. A father teaches his children that the battle is not determined by the enemy that stands around them, but by the God Who stands within them. And that lesson can only be driven home as they watch their father stand around them, while God stands within their father.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#39. As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbour multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an ongoing conversation among the different factions in your brain, each competing to control the single output channel of your behaviour.

Damian Thompson

#40. So removing vitamin E from its context within plant foods is like sending a general into battle without any troops.

T. Colin Campbell

#41. The purpose of battle is to attain the greatest heights within your own limits.

Yukito Kishiro

#42. She paused before the fallen rider. He stared up at her from within a grimacing, battle stained face. Hatred and fear battled for supremacy in his eyes. Sasha met his gaze directly with a stare of utter contempt.
'Where are your gods now?' she said.

Joel Shepherd

#43. More often than not, a hero's most epic battle is the one you never see; it's the battle that goes on within him or herself.

Kevin Smith

#44. As we try to change, we will discover within us a fierce struggle between our loyalty to that battle-scarred victim of his own childhood, our father, and the father we want to be. We must meet our childhood father at close range: get to know him, learn to forgive him, and somehow, go beyond him.

Augustus Napier

#45. The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and back again, changewhich suddenly dissolves into a moment of extreme catastrophe, a model tragedy because the fate of Europe was determined within this individual fate.

Stefan Zweig

#46. The innocent should never have to suffer from the battles of others. (Valerius) I know, but it seems to always be the case. (Acheron) A furore infra, libera nos - spare us from the fury within. (Valerius)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#47. I'm polite. I guess that's the dichotomy within me. I don't like to piss people off just for the sake of pissing them off. I pick my battles.

Lucinda Williams

#48. Every order has within it the germ of destruction. All order is doomed, yet the battle is worth while.

Nathanael West

#49. I have never known anyone to win a battle waged against his emotions. When a sentiment hoists his glimmering blade into the air, the battle is lost before it has begun.

Kelseyleigh Reber

#50. If we can focus on making clear what parts of our day are within our control and what parts are not, we will not only be happier, we will have a distinct advantage over other people who fail to realize they are fighting an unwinnable battle.

Ryan Holiday

#51. I'm not saying it will always be easy because we are human. Two people in love will always have uphill battles but it's how you handle those challenges that truly matter.

Kathryn Perez

#52. Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Leon Trotsky

#53. For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.

William Penn

#54. I don't believe in God. I believe gods and devils are within us. It's our own battle. Our life's battle is to appeal to the gods within us, and to fight the devils within us.

Eddie Izzard

#55. Problems are part of life and within the obstacles it creates are brilliant miracles for the enduring folks.

Darmie Orem

#56. we fight every battle with our imaginations: the battles within, the battles in the world beyond. This is the truth of command, and a warrior must learn command, of oneself and of others. It

Steven Erikson

#57. But all along she had held within her a second story underneath the first, waging a terrible and silent battle with her certainty.

Lauren Groff