Inner Battle Quotes

#1. It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

Rollo May

#2. If life is a battle, then my inner scars are medals for valor, for swiftness, for courage, for passion. Evil is the dark-haired brother of Good; they walk hand in hand - always.

Storm Constantine

#3. When our characters show us the full fire of that inner battle, we have the makings of great fiction. For whether the choice is ultimately for honor or dishonor, we will see the consequences and the reader will be instructed without being taught.

James Scott Bell

#4. But it was not the boyish grin she had known when he bounded along the low-gravity inner corridors of Battle School. This smile had weariness in it, and old fears long mastered but still present. It was the smile of wisdom.

Orson Scott Card

#5. More planning shall give greater possibility of victory while less planning, lesser possibility of victory. So how about those without planning?

Sun Tzu

#6. [On her mother:] I was in nervous flight from her ever since I can remember anything, and from the age of fourteen I set myself obdurately against her in a kind of inner emigration from everything she represented. Girls do have to grow up, but has this battle always been so implacable?

Doris Lessing

#7. Suddenly what to do with the rest of my life and what shirt to wear became equally daunting decisions.

Lolly Winston

#8. Nicole's intuition told her not to follow the fireflies, but she said nothing.

Arthur C. Clarke

#9. After my time in Holland, an inner battle ensued in which I tried to free myself from the influence of Schinkelesque classicism.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#10. For real food our people had traveled off reservation twenty miles or more to put our money in the pockets of store clerks who watched us with suspicion and took our money with contempt.

Louise Erdrich

#11. An inner life and inner enemies to conquer, battle and destroy. These enemies are the various desires that seek to distract our concentration by causing our thoughts to cling to outward things, things that will pass away.

Johan Oscar Smith

#12. No one knows your inner battle. No one knows the challenge you face. No one knows the sacrifice it takes to do what you do. But you're not alone.

Richie Norton

#13. In order to thrive in the 21st century, you have to be a savvy citizen of the digital economy or risk being left behind.

Leila Janah

#14. While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.

Yanni

#15. Our inner battle is the wall that separates us from our own light.

Margrit Irgang

#16. There's always a way," his sister lectured. "We'll need help, though."
"What help?"
Amy grinned. "Sometimes it doesn't hurt to be a part of the most powerful family in human history.

Gordon Korman

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

Israelmore Ayivor

#18. Prayer plumes the wings of God's young eaglets so that they may learn to mount above the clouds. Prayer brings inner strength to God's warriors and sends them forth to spiritual battle with their muscles firm and their armor in place.

Charles Spurgeon

#19. When we direct a lot of hostile energy toward the inner critic, we enter into a losing battle.

Sharon Salzberg

#20. Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide

Carl Jung

#21. I once asked her if she got bored living alone, and she said, 'To say one is bored to be alone is to admit that one has no inner resources.

Lois Battle

#22. I learnt that popular opinion is not necessarily the right opinion.

Israelmore Ayivor

#23. I love radical theorists. But at the same time, I don't agree with them a lot, but I love their theories. I love how they intellectualize rage, and this inner battle that such a tiny percent of people really care about. I find that the most interesting.

John Waters

#24. And did not Spinoza's refusing to flee from excommunication by his church and community mean the same inner battle of integrity, the same struggle for the power not to be afraid of aloneness, without which the noble Ethics, certainly one of the great works of all time, could not have been written?

Rollo May

#25. I'm not a person - and my wife also - we don't really go to the beach or anything like that. We go to cities.

Robert Barry

#26. Fate's got a fucking sick sense of humor. Fate is a shape-shifter. It's the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls and forms into something grotesque. You think its one thing, but then its another.

Deb Caletti