Quotes About Internal Struggle

#1. I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.

Corey Smith

#2. Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.

Marvin Olasky

#3. A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.

Bill Skarsgard

#4. It seemed that Dudley was struggling with concepts too difficult to put into words. After several moments of apparently painful internal struggle he said, "But where's he going to go?

J.K. Rowling

#5. And I could see his internal struggle become an all out war. "It wouldn't have made a difference. Not with Adrian involved," he said ... "I meant it. I won't be that guy Rose. I won't be that man that takes someone else's girlfriend.

Richelle Mead

#6. When you struggle with weight, it's not an internal struggle ... it's literally an external struggle, and everyone sees it.

Ross Mathews

#7. Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me.

H.G.Wells

#8. Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. Well, I think certain roles are chosen for us. The moment I read Pete Campbell I thought: I can do this, this is mine. And in Money, too. The truth is I turn down a lot of projects. If a character doesn't have some kind of internal struggle, it's no good for me.

Vincent Kartheiser

#10. The internal, and eternal, struggle, between our base impulses and the rigorous demands of our own moral system is quintessentially human. It is how we conduct ourselves in that struggle that determines how we may in time be judged by a higher power.

Neal Stephenson

#11. Unfortunately the next day was not the vast, extraneous expanse of time which I had feverishly looked forward. When it drew to a close my laziness and my painful struggle to overcome internal obstacles had simply lasted twenty-four hours longer.

Marcel Proust

#12. Maybe my great struggle, and it's probably not anything different from too many other people, but it certainly is what drives the music, is a hugely internal one.

El-P

#13. The greatest war we fight is the one within ourselves.

Eric Christopher Jackson

#14. Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.

Swami Vivekananda

#15. Philip could not have wanted to annex England militarily, since this would have opened another costly occupation struggle, and brought France in against him. He might, however, neutralize Elizabth by supporting her internal Catholic enemies, even provoking civil war.

Peter Padfield

#16. Talk happiness. The world is sad enough
Without your woe. No path is wholly rough.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#17. Procrastination can wait for Tomorrrow.

Michelle Marie

#18. While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.

J.R. Moehringer

#19. Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit ... I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. When I was twelve, someone stole all those dreams of normal from me." ~ Blake

Ashley Poch

#21. We're fighting internal struggles, I am the cancer for my own cure.

El-P

#22. There is no surer road to perdition than the ledger glands dictate your direction.

Lois Greiman