Quotes About Self-sabotage

Soy mi peor enemigo; normalmente soy yo el que me derroto a mí mismo.

Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.

Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way.

Notice how shame, consciously or unconsciously, pulls us away from risk, ratifies our negative sense of worth through self-sabotage, or compels us into frenetic efforts at overcompensation, grandiosity, or yearning for validation that never comes. How much each of us needs to remember theologian Paul Tillich's definition of grace as accepting the fact that we are accepted, despite the fact that we are unacceptable.

So much of life is on automatic pilot, and we pay for this loss of consciousness over and over in the sabotage of relationships, in our self-stultifying attitudes, and in the shameful power we routinely bequeath to others in managing our values.

You're your own worst enemy, Marta always said to me. You don't need anyone to torment you because you do it to yourself.

In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.

We let ourselves be at the mercy of our thoughts and our thoughts at the mercy of our negative emotions, in this way we undermine ourselves. —A TIBETAN SAYING

It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves.

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

For me, there are actually two lenses through which to view 'what happened to you.' There is the science-based explanation of the effect early trauma has on the brain. And then there are the myriad daily actions each of us take throughout our lives that are the result of, and that reflect back on, such trauma. These are the actions that, on the surface, look like bad decisions, bad habits, self-sabotage, self-destruction-the actions that cause others to judge.

Maybe I have always been, as Vi would subsequently accuse me, someone who creates obstacles for myself than looks around in surprise, wondering where they came from.

And I don't know if you've heard this, but there's something called the Danny Horst Rule. And the amazing thing is, I'm Danny Horst. Touché. Chuckles, you and Noah are the ones who decide if it matters. It doesn't seem like it matters to him so that just leaves you. When you put it like that, it almost makes me sound like a self-sabotaging asshat. I'm not going to say the rule doesn't exist, but it's like Santa Claus. It's only real if you believe in it.

Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' —Fletch

You can paralyze yourself with perfectionistic do-your-best nonsense.

I wanted so desperately to prove that I was right, even though all of my efforts were obviously self-sabotaging.

So badly did he not want to fuck it up, he could only fuck it up.

Remember, you are your own worst enemy.

Membenci orang lain adalah laksana membakar rumah kita sendiri untuk mengusir seekor tikus.

Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.

Sometimes, I am my own worst enemy.

Even with the right boy I'd wreck it," I said. "I'd join the navy on impulse and sail off right when he needed me, or we'd have a baby and I'd accidentally put it in my purse. The right boys I always toss and the wrong ones I keep on top of me like paperweights. I know they're the wrong boys and I just go to them.

It is not necessary to dig one's own grave. There are always others willing to dig it for you.' It's an old Cantonese proverb.