Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Inner Conflict Quotes
Fear of JudgmentInner ConflictInsecuritySelf-PerceptionVulnerability I'm afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I'm afraid they'll mock me, think I'm ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I'm used to not being taken seriously, but only the 'light-hearted' Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the 'deeper' Anne is too weak.
IdentityInner ConflictSelf-DiscoveryStruggleSuperficiality My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can't imagine how often I've tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne - to beat her down, hide her.
BalanceConsequenceInner ConflictPassion S ImpactSelf Mastery Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
ConscienceDangerInner ConflictMoralityPrejudice There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
HateInner ConflictLoveSelf-Destruction Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Many of our inner conflicts are rooted in hate. This is why psychiatrists say, Love or perish. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
CreationInner ConflictNecessityOrderStruggle There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.
CommunicationCreativityExpressionInner ConflictSelf-awareness I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.
DeceptionInauthenticityInner ConflictPovertyWealth No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
Inner ConflictSelf-DiscoveryUnconscious Mind Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
Inner ConflictJudgmentPerformancePublic ScrutinySelf-Criticism It's easy to become very self-critical when you're an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.
FaithInner ConflictSpiritual Growth Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways.
CompromiseFaithInner ConflictMoralityPersonal Happiness Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
AmbitionBalanceInner ConflictSpirituality Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
Inner ConflictLearning and GrowthSelf-doubt I don't know if subconsciously there was some reaction going on, if there was something in me that didn't want to learn an instrument - because I couldn't have been that incompetent!
Emotional ConnectionFriendshipInner ConflictLonelinessSocial Interaction I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I'm with friends is having a good time. I can't bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don't seem to be able to get any closer, and that's the problem.
ConformityDesire for FreedomInner ConflictRegretSelf-awareness I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.
Inner ConflictPersonal ResponsibilitySelf MasterySelf-OvercomingVictory And Defeat 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.
BeliefDoubtFaithInner ConflictSpirituality Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Inner ConflictMoral IntegrityReligious devotionSelf-awarenessSpirituality The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.
Emotional ControlHuman NatureInner ConflictSelf Reflection We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
AcceptanceCollaborationControlInner Conflict My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
DiscernmentInner ConflictInstinctsSelf-Control Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
EnduranceInner ConflictTimelessnessWriting Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.
HopeIdentityInner ConflictPerseveranceSelf-Improvement And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.
Good and EvilHuman NatureInner ConflictMorality The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
EnduranceInner ConflictPatienceSelf-AcceptanceSelf Reflection Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
