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Quotes About Self-sabotage

Anger is fundamentally self-defeating. If you look at your life closely, you will find that you have done the most idiotic and life-negative things when you were angry. Above all, you were working against yourself. If you work against yourself, if you sabotage your own well-being, you are obviously choosing unintelligence as a way of life. I
~ Sadhguru
Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time.
~ David Fincher
Alas, hoist with my own petard.
~ Anne Perry
All of our actions can signify self-love or self-sabotage
~ Sharon Salzberg
It's never the enemy without who brings you down. It's always the enemy within." – Nick "Guard your back, Nick. It's the one you don't see coming. The one you trust whose betrayal is most lethal. They know your weakness and they know how to hit the lowest. It's when your back is turned and your guard is down that they move in for the kill." – Kyrian
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
It's never the enemy without who brings you down. It's always the enemy within.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' —Fletch
~ Walter Dean Myers
Because she is afraid of not being supported, she unknowingly pushes away the support she needs.
~ John Gray
If you tell your subconscious that you can be great for a few days, but then always blow it, you've given it both instruction and permission to give up after a few days.
~ Elizabeth Benton
Los españoles seguimos siendo los primeros enemigos de nosotros mismos. Empeñados en apagar las luces allí donde las vemos brillar.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.
~ Katherine Heigl
Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed our inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure. Unfortunately
~ Gay Hendricks
By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others, we are withholding from ourselves.
~ Marianne Williamson
Sometimes we do all the wrong things for all the right reasons. We can be our own worst enemies. It takes a while to get over that.
~ Barbara Delinsky
Our better angels get clouded and we're more selfish than we should be, more anxious or neurotic or desperate or self-sabotaging. Crueler, even. But I do think there's hope for everyone... I think redemption is possible for anybody.
~ Raphael Bob-Waksberg
It's heartbreaking to watch people working against themselves.
~ Gloria Steinem
Man has no greater enemy than himself.
~ Petrarch
Wise are thy words, my friend, responded the buyer. Good luck fled from procrastination in both these tales. Yet, this is not unusual. The spirit of procrastination is within all men. We desire riches; yet, how often when opportunity doth appear before us, that spirit of procrastination from within doth urge various delays in our acceptance. In listening to it we do become our own worst enemies.
~ George S. Clason
Some people have a perverse talent; they're capable of shooting themselves in the foot and stabbing themselves in the back at the exact same time.
~ Mardy Grothe
Why do I want to run from happiness?
~ Mary Balogh
The is no greater pain than the one you cause yourself when you let yourself down when a good chance present itself for you to advance your life!
~ Stan The Man SA
So many people sabotagetheir own chances for happiness—don't be one of them.
~ Domonique Bertolucci
Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.
~ Jaggi Vasudev