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Quotes About Self-inflicted

He just hit himself in the dinger with a rubber.
~ Phil Brooks
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within
~ Will Durant
If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
~ Margaret Thatcher
None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.
~ George Eliot
Because we're gonna get so interested in entertainment that we're not gonna want to do the work that generates the income that buys the products that pays for the advertising that disseminates the entertainment...Where the country could very well shut down and die, and it won't be anybody else doin' it to us, we will have done it to ourselves.
~ David Lipsky
God's anger is kindled not because we have harmed him but because we have harmed ourselves.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
She was twenty-six years old, her life was ruined, and it was her own fault.
~ Ken Follett
The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment to themselves.
~ William Penn
To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.
~ William Shakespeare
Since then I had come to learn that my unhappiness had been inflicted not by Chogyal but, unintentionally, by myself. By wallowing in my own nostalgic memories, spending so much time thinking about a relationship that had moved on, I had been needlessly carrying pain. Suffering.
~ David Michie
I don't know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. It's funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we've committed some crime.
~ Deb Caletti
Dukkha is not the self-inflicted stress of a technology executive; it's the real stuff, the kind of suffering that merits the Pali word's original meaning: brokenness, stuckness.
~ Jay Michaelson
Lucky is the soul whose only troubles are self-inflicted. a
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
ao passo que, pela inveja, pelo ciúme e pela ambição, tortura-se voluntariamente e assim aumenta as misérias e as angústias de sua curta existência.
~ Allan Kardec
Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge - and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon.
~ David Cameron
You want to feel sorry for him, but he was his own undoing.
~ Ridley Pearson
A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.
~ Gautama Buddha
God didn't have to punish him; he'd created his own hell. By himself and for himself.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Porque ni las miserias, ni la degradación, ni la muerte, ni nada de lo que Dios o Satanás pudieran infligirnos habría podido separarnos; lo hiciste tú, por tu propio pie. No he sido yo quien te ha roto el corazón, te lo has roto tú misma y de paso me has roto el mío.
~ Emily Bronte
Os orgulhosos provocam suas próprias tristezas.
~ Emily Bronte
Ponosni ljudi sami sebi stvaraju tugu.
~ Emily Bronte
It's self-inflicted fear and ignorance that keep people trapped.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich. It's self-inflicted fear and ignorance that keep people trapped.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki