Quotes About Self-sabotage

It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.

Every time I've ever gotten close to being successful, I've found some way to screw it up.

We have outsmarted ourselves, like greedy monkeys, and now we are full of dread.

How foolishly we all bound ourselves into the very chains that could destroy us.

There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner ... and that is the Afrikaner himself.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself. It

Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself.

Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself.

We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction

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.

If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.

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.

Why live in fear that he might find me disgusting someday, when I could make it happen right now?

There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

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.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

'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.

Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?