Matt Sydal Quotes

The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.

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

I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come to the end of it.

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another

I am determined and resigned to being self-conscious.

I look in the mirror, my only opponent

I see and praise what is better, but follow what is worse.

Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.

I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

Self-reform is the only kind that works.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

My personality can be extreme in all ways, even in positive ways; I've learned that.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.