Petrarch Quotes

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.

Every time I've ever gotten close to being successful, I've found some way to screw it up.

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

It's weird, I was such a survivor and so wanted to be a part of life while I was trying to snuff out the life that was inside of me. I had this duality of trying to kill myself with drugs, then eating really good food and exercising and going swimming and trying to be a part of life. I was always going back and forth on some level.

There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle.

beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.

I'm my own worst enemy and I know that.

I think my worst enemy is me.

I'm my own worst enemy.

By nature, I'm a very self-destructive person, but all that happens is that I just get more successful every time I do it. Someday I'll come crashing down, so that's why I try to keep a good attitude about it all.

I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.

He has no worse enemy than himself.

The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.

From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside.

Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.

Our most merciless enemy is our past.

Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.

Your enemy is your own self in a different uniform.

Ain't nobody messin' with you but you

My biggest enemy is me and even I can't stop me

None but yourself who are your greatest foe.

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?