--- title: "2 Battles Quotes By Sheldon B. Kopp" description: "2 Battles quotes by Sheldon B. Kopp. Plus more from Sheldon B. Kopp and more Battles sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c92/sheldon-b-kopp-10645_battle_all-significant-battles-are-fought-withi_1153892.png" --- > [All significant battles are fought within self.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheldon-b-kopp/all-significant-battles-are-fought-within-self/) [Sheldon B. Kopp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheldon-b-kopp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c92/sheldon-b-kopp-10645_battle_all-significant-battles-are-fought-withi_1153892.png) > [All of the truly important battles are waged within the self. (7)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheldon-b-kopp/all-of-the-truly-important-battles-are-waged-within-the-self-7/) [Sheldon B. Kopp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheldon-b-kopp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62a/sheldon-b-kopp-10645_battle_all-of-the-truly-important-battles-are-w_2465738.png) ## Other authors on Battles - [Israelmore Ayivor 14 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/battles/israelmore-ayivor/) - [Shannon L. Alder 12 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/battles/shannon-l-alder/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sun-tzu-87907.jpg) Sun Tzu 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/battles/sun-tzu/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-napoleon-bonaparte-70192.jpg) Napoleon Bonaparte 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/battles/napoleon-bonaparte/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paulo-coelho-74345.jpg) Paulo Coelho 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/battles/paulo-coelho/) - [George R.R. Martin 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/battles/george-r-r-martin/) - [Craig D. Lounsbrough 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/battles/craig-d-lounsbrough/) ## More by Sheldon B. Kopp > [“Research in self-disclosure supports my own experience that the personal openness of the guru facilitates and invites the increased openness of the pilgrim. (24)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheldon-b-kopp/research-in-self-disclosure-supports-my-own-experience-that-the/) [Sheldon B. Kopp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheldon-b-kopp/) > [I remember a group therapy session when one of the patients was reluctantly turning his corner. He would accept it, he said, but he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheldon-b-kopp/i-remember-a-group-therapy-session-when-one-of-the-patients-was/) [Sheldon B. Kopp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheldon-b-kopp/) > [Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheldon-b-kopp/sometimes-life-seems-like-a-poorly-designed-cage-within-which-man-has/) [Sheldon B. Kopp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheldon-b-kopp/) > [“Crises marked by anxiety, doubt, and despair have always been those periods of personal unrest that occur at the times when a man is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheldon-b-kopp/crises-marked-by-anxiety-doubt-and-despair-have-always-been-those/) [Sheldon B. Kopp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheldon-b-kopp/) > [Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheldon-b-kopp/everything-good-is-costly-and-the-development-of-the-personality-is/) [Sheldon B. Kopp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheldon-b-kopp/) > [I have long trusted dreams as prophetic visions. I do not mean that they foretell the future, only that they illuminate the present, when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheldon-b-kopp/i-have-long-trusted-dreams-as-prophetic-visions-i-do-not-mean-that/) [Sheldon B. Kopp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheldon-b-kopp/) > [Each person's only hope for improving his lot rests on recognizing the true nature of his or her basic personality, surrendering to it, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheldon-b-kopp/each-person-s-only-hope-for-improving-his-lot-rests-on-recognizing/) [Sheldon B. Kopp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheldon-b-kopp/) > [“Of course, one other hypothetical alternative would have been for the child to decide that since she was fine the way she was, there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheldon-b-kopp/of-course-one-other-hypothetical-alternative-would-have-been-for-the/) [Sheldon B. Kopp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheldon-b-kopp/) > [“Unwilling to tolerate life’s ambiguity, its unresolvability, its inevitability, we search for certainty, demanding that someone else must provide it. Stubbornly, relentlessly, we seek…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheldon-b-kopp/unwilling-to-tolerate-life-s-ambiguity-its-unresolvability-its/) [Sheldon B. Kopp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheldon-b-kopp/) > [But after a while, she began to experience the new reality of each person as being as strong and as weak as anyone else.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheldon-b-kopp/but-after-a-while-she-began-to-experience-the-new-reality-of-each/) [Sheldon B. Kopp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheldon-b-kopp/) > [So it is that God tugs at a pilgrim's sleeve telling him to remember that he is only human. He must be his own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheldon-b-kopp/so-it-is-that-god-tugs-at-a-pilgrim-s-sleeve-telling-him-to-remember/) [Sheldon B. Kopp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheldon-b-kopp/) > [“You can't get there from here, and besides there's no place else to go.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheldon-b-kopp/you-can-t-get-there-from-here-and-besides-there-s-no-place-else-to-go/) [Sheldon B. Kopp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheldon-b-kopp/) > [He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheldon-b-kopp/he-prefers-the-security-of-known-misery-to-the-misery-of-unfamiliar/) [Sheldon B. Kopp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheldon-b-kopp/) > [For a long time now I have trusted my dreaming self as wiser than that waking self whose head is cluttered with reason and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheldon-b-kopp/for-a-long-time-now-i-have-trusted-my-dreaming-self-as-wiser-than/) [Sheldon B. Kopp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheldon-b-kopp/) > [All significant battles are fought within self.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheldon-b-kopp/all-significant-battles-are-fought-within-self/) [Sheldon B. Kopp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheldon-b-kopp/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/battles/sheldon-b-kopp/#itemlist", "name": "2 Battles Quotes By Sheldon B. Kopp", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "All significant battles are fought within self.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sheldon B. 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