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Quotes About Self-sabotage

It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.
~ Win Butler
Every time I've ever gotten close to being successful, I've found some way to screw it up.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
We have outsmarted ourselves, like greedy monkeys, and now we are full of dread.
~ Peter Matthiessen
How foolishly we all bound ourselves into the very chains that could destroy us.
~ Phyllis A. Whitney
There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner ... and that is the Afrikaner himself.
~ Pieter Willem Botha
Self-sabotage is the proverbial hammer over the head that finally wakes us up, demanding that we pay attention. For most of us, it takes something devastating to crack us open, to get us out of our minds and into our hearts.
~ Debbie Ford
Too many of us suffer from pervasive feelings of personal powerlessness. We have a terrible habit of obstructing our own paths forward, especially at the worst possible moments.
~ Amy Cuddy
I do panic when I'm out of work, and there have been long periods of that. And I'm not a good auditionee. I talk myself out of jobs in front of the director and suggest other people who would be better.
~ Rachael Stirling
Some people hold on to a position or title for dear life; they hold on so tight, in fact, that they sabotage their own lives in the process.
~ Darlene Zschech
Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself. It
~ James St. James
Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself.
~ James St. James
Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself.
~ James St. James
We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
~ Aesop
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction
~ Aesop
I didn't hang any pictures in my office for a year because I thought that I would be jinxing myself and have to take them down the next day.
~ Rob Corddry
If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
~ Margaret Thatcher
I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage.
~ Patrick deWitt
Why live in fear that he might find me disgusting someday, when I could make it happen right now?
~ Rachel Hartman
There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
~ Raymond Chandler
But the problem with me was that as soon as I started thinking about getting it together, I got this mad craving desire to fuck it up.
~ Rebecca Godfrey
Every man is his own chief enemy.
~ Anacharsis
Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
'Each man kills the things he loves'. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.
~ Pete Doherty
Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?
~ Voltaire