Top 100 Quotes About Fighting Self
#1. For he felt about the whole affair the touch somewhere of a great Outer Horror - and his scattered powers had not as yet had time to collect themselves into a definite attitude of fighting self-control.
Algernon Blackwood
#2. True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.
Charles Eisenstein
#3. Piper had a new entry in her top-ten list of Times Piper Felt Useless.
Fighting Shrimpzilla with a dagger and a pretty voice? Not so effective.
Rick Riordan
#4. If you count your blessings, you will know, they outnumber your troubles.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#5. War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.
John Dos Passos
#6. Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.
William Ralph Inge
#7. I have found out all I need to know, it's pretty self explanatory. You wanted a laugh; trick two girls into thinking you liked them. Bravo, you succeeded. Now go have a celebratory drink with your frat buddies, I said, spitting rain out at him with each word I spoke.
Nicole Gulla
#8. Think about all of the times, situations, and circumstances where you have gotten caught up in making your self right rather than happy ... The harder you fight to win, the bigger you lose.
Phil McGraw
#10. Whenever man fights with somebody else he is fighting with his own truth at the same time
Angelos Michalopoulos
#11. I tried to be someone else, but nothing seemed to change. I know now, this is who I really am inside. I've finally found myself, fighting for a chance.
I know now, this is who I really am.
Jared Leto
#12. And yet, something tied them together, strong than any of that, something with the power to conduct her blood and breath like a symphony, so that anything she did to fight against it felt like discord, like disharmony with her self.
Laini Taylor
#13. If you saw the size of the BLESSING YOU ARE BECOMING, you would understand the magnitude of the battle you are fighting!
Michele Jennae
#14. Be kinder than necessary
because everyone you meet
is fighting some kind of battle
Sukhraj S. Dhillon
#15. Be a woman of confidence and self-respect; give a man a reason worth fighting for.
Nikki Rowe
#16. War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may be bad, but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hands of the Potter.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#17. Faith gives us strength.
Grace gives us power.
Hope gives us anchor.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#18. Our church, which has been fighting in these years only for its self-preservation, as though that were an end in itself, is incapable of taking the word of reconciliation and redemption to mankind and the world.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#19. Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#20. Things are changing, but this time I'm not afraid. This time I know who I am. This time I've made the right choice and fighting for the right team. I feel safe. Confident
Tahereh Mafi
#22. Success isn't based on 'look what I can do!' but more on an inner sense of self and believing you have something to say in your own consistent way. And I think we all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform.
Ralph Lauren
#23. Democrats see our voluntary military supported by taxpayer dollars as their personal Salvation Army. Self-interested behavior, such as deploying troops to serve the nation, is considered boorish in Manhattan salons.
Ann Coulter
#25. Bud, my self-defense and combat skills teacher, was still trying to get me to learn knife fighting. "Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to nearly all paranormals!"
"Tasey!" I countered. "Hot pink and sparkly!
Kiersten White
#26. [The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that.
C.S. Lewis
#27. I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em ...
Richard Wright
#28. 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
#30. The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self ...
Sherwood Anderson
#31. If you have never known happiness and sorrow, then you have not fully experience life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#32. Your life is important. Whether you achieve what you want in life matters. Whether you are happy matters. Honor and fight for your highest potential. Self-realizatio n-the realization of the best within you-is the noblest goal of your existence.
Nathaniel Branden
#33. There's no doubt, though, that fighting the good fight of faith takes energy! But then so do selfpity, anger, unforgiveness, and self-loathing. Each of us must decide where we're going to put our energy when the battle grows fierce.
Beth Moore
#34. You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.
Kurt Vonnegut
#35. The one who fights back retains his dignity and his self-respect.
Jeff Cooper
#36. After Self-Realisation it is easy to perceive the truth that all these religions were born on the same tree of spirituality, but that those in charge of each religion plucked the flowers from the living source and are now fighting each other with the dead flowers of merely partial truths.
Nirmala Srivastava
#37. A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
Freeman Dyson
#38. Do not take someone's silence as his pride,perhaps he is busy fighting with his self
Ali Ibn Abi Taleb
#39. I am beginning to respect the apathetic days. Perhaps they're a necessary pause: better to give in to them than to fight them at your desk hopelessly; then you lose both the day and your self-respect. Treat them as physical phenomena
casually
and obey them.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#40. I abstain from any kind of release for six weeks before a fight, no self-pleasure, nothing. Even in my dreams, I'll be about to have sex with a beautiful girl and I'll say, 'Sorry darling, I'm fighting in a few weeks.' That's control, bro, when you're turning down a hot chick in your subconscious.
David Haye
#41. When food becomes the enemy, every time we lose the fight we not only gain weight, but lose our self-esteem as well.
Jane Fonda
#42. I stop fighting my inner demons. We're on the same side now. T-shirt
Darynda Jones
#43. The dream of my life has risen to become fact. Self-defense in the ghetto will have been a reality. Jewish armed resistance and revenge are facts. I have been a witness to the magnificent, heroic fighting of Jewish men in battle.
Mordechai Anielewicz
#45. Too much time is wasted fighting one self and life itself. Peace and fulfilment emerge the moment you embrace both.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#46. Once you are present in the Energyfield of Self-discovery, it's like you are a piece of ice in warm water. The warm water is the Self. The ice is the mind. The warm water is not fighting with the ice. The ice can not resist the melting. It is a natural and fatal attraction.
Mooji
#48. Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.
Gina Carano
#49. Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.
Eric Hoffer
#50. Fighting is easier than loving, just as giving in to anger is easier than self-control.
Donna Lynn Hope
#51. Standing up for yourself is about more than flinging barbed-wire insults around. Its about picking your battles, knowing when to fight, knowing exactly what and who is worth fighting for.
Paula Stokes
#52. He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
Confucius
#53. Because I was a young man so, of course, I did get into fights. The last time I actually was in a fight, in the sense of throwing punches myself, was probably when I was at college, not since 1980. But I remember being attacked quite a few times in the '80s.
Will Self
#54. Depressed states can make us feel like we're constantly fighting against ourselves but we must engage in that fight for ourselves.
Sam Owen
#56. Fear never leaves you. It just adapts to you. And that's the meaning of strengthening a warrior spirit from within, as you can't fight all your battles with the same weapons.
Bryan Keyleader
#57. If you fight yourself, you will lose, and fighting leaves scares.
Michelle Hodkin
#58. What would happen if you stopped fighting, and gave yourself permission to feel? Not just the good things, but everything?
R. J. Anderson
#59. The glory of God is upon you.
Arise in great might and chase your dream.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#60. When dragons attack, the only thing you should seek to stand behind is your own sword.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#61. Fighting Life Creates an Enemy,
Flowing with Life Creates Harmony.
Cynthia Belmer
#62. Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
Thomas Paine
#64. While fighting for acceptance, we must remember that our own self worth is not determined by whether or not we get it.
Stuart Duncan
#65. Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.
Hayao Miyazaki
#66. I turn around and start walking, careful to keep my head down so no one sees the moment when the huge smile I was fighting finally breaks free. It takes every ounce of self-control not to look back and see if he's watching.
Kami Garcia
#67. He would have died soon, but more painfully. Anyway, it was Urban Bloodshed Limitation. First rule: limit bloodshed by making sure that none of your own gets spilled.
Margaret Atwood
#69. Fighting with self!! Why not? If we can live in harmony with self, we also have a full right to fight ourselves as well.
Mahesh Babu
#70. Your life is important. Fight for it. Honour your highest potentials.
Nathaniel Branden
#71. You have become what you are through countless lives and lessons. There is something you can offer others; if only working on your self-discipline, fighting your own baser urges.
Do that then. Do what is offered. Learn and grow as you can.
That in itself is service.
Edward Fahey
#72. I wasn't made with wings so I could fly away. So here I stand, fighting for a brighter day. That fight begins with me.
D. Allen Miller
#73. I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause.
Sarah McLachlan
#74. If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has ever won in any moral issue: the argument from self-esteem. Check your premises, convince yourself of the rightness of your cause, then fight for capitalism with full, moral certainty.
Ayn Rand
#75. Her feelings of fear and helplessness had reached such a pitch that they were suddenly transformed into their opposites. Having overcome them, she felt corageous and self-confident enough to tackle any power on earth; more precisely, she had ceased to worry about herself.
Michael Ende
#76. If you keep fighting with yourself, you will always win.
Samer Chidiac
#77. Lack of self-esteem is what causes wars because people who really love themselves don't go out and try to fight other people ... It's the root of all the problems.
Oprah Winfrey
#78. Unfair. I was fighting with some core, self-fulfilling loneliness that made me push people away.
C.D. Reiss
#80. Golf is not a wrestle with Bogey; it is not a struggle with your mortal foe; it is a physiological, psychological and moral fight with your self; it is a test of mastery over self; and the ultimate and irreducible element of the game is to determine which of the players is the more worthy combatant.
Arnold Haultain
#83. The war ... must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks ... unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence,and that, or extermination, we WILL have.
Jefferson Davis
#85. One of the highest marks of citizenship is fighting for the common defense.
Richard Brookhiser
#86. Fighting for ourselves means manufacturing our own weapons of self-defense.
Mike Huckabee
#87. It's better to avoid than to run; better to run than to de-escalate; better to de-escalate than to fight; better to fight than to die. The very essence of self-defense is a thin list of things that might get you out alive when you are already screwed.
Rory Miller
#88. Aikido is not merely about fighting and the development of the physical self but the perfection of the spiritual man at the same time. It has very harmonious movements, very beautiful to watch and beautiful for your body to feel.
Steven Seagal
#89. International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.
Norman Finkelstein
#90. Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
Viktor E. Frankl
#92. The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.
Mahatma Gandhi
#94. Fighting newspaper editors for the last word was a losing proposition.
Harold Holzer
#95. Yes, yes; you've read thousands of books but you've never tried to read your own self; you rush into your temples, into your mosques, but you have never tried to enter your own heart; futile are all your battles with the devil for you have never tried to fight your own desires.
Bulleh Shah
#100. The real reason Cuba poses a threat has nothing to do with my being here or anyone else being here. It's because Cuba is an example of a country that is actively fighting against imperialist domination and insists on its own right to self-determination and sovereignty.
Assata Shakur
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