Inner Enemy Quotes

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

Our minds are not our friends when they realize we have work to do - they're our enemies.

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

My toughest enemy is in the mirror - would you look at that.

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

My greatest enemy at one point was myself, and so now once I got over the fear of myself I don't fear any man. I never have.

A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.

Before making peace, war is necessary, and that war must be made with our self. Our worst enemy is our self: our faults, our weaknesses, our limitations. And our mind is such a traitor! What does it? It covers our faults even from our own eyes, and points out to us the reason for all our difficulties: others! So it constantly deludes us, keeping us unaware of the real enemy, and pushes us towards those others to fight them, showing them to us as our enemies.

Unlike an external enemy, the inner enemy cannot regroup and launch a comeback once it has been destroyed from within.

Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.

Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in your living flesh, for he is the other part of yourself.

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

I think my worst enemy is me.

When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is the sloth and negligence then of so many who live blind and asleep to this reality of sin. There is an exceeding efficacy nad power in the indwelling sin of believers, for it constantly inclines itself towards evil. We need to be awake, then, if our hearts would know the ways of God. Our enemy is not only upon us, as it was with Samson, but it is also in us.

Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. Get to your knees and cry for help, and then rise up saying, 'I will trust, and not be afraid.'

The longer I live the more I believe that the greatest enemy of a victorious Christian life is passivity.

I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware...Beware...

We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar.

No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy.