Quotes About Self-sabotage

No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.

Don't make such decisions whose bad results make you look like you are your own enemy.

Procrastination also can be a way of self-handicapping: if you don't do a great job, you can always say to yourself, "If I'd only started sooner, I'd have been able to produce something excellent."

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

As long as part of your sense of self is invested in your emotional pain, you will unconsciously resist or sabotage every attempt that you make to heal that pain.

The first thing to remember is this: As long as you make an identity for yourself out of the pain, you cannot become free of it. As long as part of your sense of self is invested in your emotional pain, you will unconsciously resist or sabotage every attempt that you make to heal that pain. Why? Quite simply because you want to keep yourself intact, and the pain has become an essential part of you. This is an unconscious process, and the only way to overcome it is to make it conscious.

When you seek to do something, if you don't know the whole game plan, you're usually going to work against yourself.

My first kiss was with a girlfriend. And it was at a party. I think I was hopeful that that would happen, but I didn't plan it. You know, honestly, I think if there's a little too much planning, it's almost just like self-sabotage. Because then, you want it to go a certain way and it just doesn't. And then you're like, 'Awww, why?'

The conception of people acting against their own best interests should not startle us. We see it occasionally in sleep-walking and in politics, every day.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

People doom and damn themselves with their own perverse and pessimistic beliefs about reality.

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

We all mine and undermine and landmine ourselves, in our own ways, in our own time, Sophia thinks.

El problema es la dimensión kamikaze de mis actos: me destruyo más a mí mismo que a mi objetivo.

Too many talented and supremely calculating politicians, including Nixon and Clinton, have destroyed their careers, or come close, by acting in ways that were obviously against their own interests.

You know very well what the right choice is, yet you keep making the wrong one.

I've always believed that we don't choose the life we want, we choose the life we think we deserve. We self-sabotage as a way to punish ourselves." "Why would we punish ourselves? Doesn't the world punish us enough?" "Why wouldn't we? We live in a world that is always making us work for love. It's cause and effect.

Celui que l'idée de la victoire hante réduit lui-même à néant ses capacités.

No matter what you say you want, if you've got an underlying subconscious belief that it's going to cause you pain or isn't available to you, you either A) Won't let yourself have it, or B) You will let yourself have it, but you'll be rill fucked up about it. And then you'll go off and lose it anyway.

We don't realize it, but we're making the perks we get from perpetuating our stories more important than getting the things we really want because it's familiar territory, it's what we're comfy with and we're scared to let it go.

No matter what you say you want, if you've got an underlying subconscious belief that it's going to cause you pain or isn't available to you, you either A) Won't let yourself have it, or B) You will let yourself have it, but you'll be rill fucked up about it. And then you'll go off and lose it anyway. We

The Big Snooze is creating chaos in an attempts to self-sabotage and keep everything as it, instead of moving forward into unknown, yet desperately wanted, new territory.

Procrastination is one of the most popular forms of self-sabotage because it's really easy.

Egal, was sie sich wünschen: Wenn Sie unterbewusst glauben, dass dieser Wunsch Leid verursachen könnte oder für sie unerreichbar ist, werden Sie a) nicht zulassen, dass er sich erfüllt, oder b) zulassen, dass er sich erfüllt, sich dann aber fertig machen – und alles wieder verlieren.