Jeffrey Sachs Quotes

The mind at war with itself does war with any other mind, and that produces war in the world - all of it.

There's always going to be a war going on inside of me. That's just, I think, my make-up.

I'm battling with myself and every day it's a war.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. I don't know how to explain it more. It's universal. Some people are better at dealing with it, and they sleep with no pain - not pain, arguments. I've grown quite comfortable with being at war.

She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.

And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear is a whispering. And we cannot understand the whispering, because our minds have been invaded by a war. A war that we have both won and lost. The very worst sort of war. A war that captures dreams and re-dreams them. A war that has made us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.

[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.

Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.

There never was a war that was not inward.

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 think this idea of fighting the enemy within is sort of more interesting than fighting an external enemy.

I am my best enemy.

I've got a war in my mind

I love the idea of playing a good guy who's fighting his own demons.

The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.

I was losing sight of the wolf ahead of me; the one inside me seemed closer all of a sudden.

The battle would not take place in the mountains, valleys, or plains of Israel. It would take place in the wilderness of the human heart.

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.