Quotes About Self-sabotage

Every time you get a chance to move forward, you just hijack your own future. it's like - you don't actually want to... You're in control of your own life. And yet you act like you're permanently buffeted by events outside your control.

Unfortunately, I'm one of those idiots who knows everything about health and is in a constant state of alarm, and yet I continue to do everything I shouldn't do.

Even betting against myself, I could always find a way to lose.

People still use the phrase hoisted by his own petard

More than anything else, I wanted not to be alone — yet all my actions guaranteed I'd be lonely. Like wearing a vest of explosives when you're coming in for a hug, insatiable need is a form of sabotage.

I'm always like the guy who wants to date the pretty girl so bad, and when he finally gets the chance, he blows it because he spends too much time worrying about it.

I get in my own head, and at the end of the day, I'm my biggest critic, and I'm my worst enemy, too.

I'm my own worst enemy and I know that.

Leading behavioral researchers have told us that as much as seventy-seven percent of everything we think is negative, counterproductive, and works against us. At the same time, medical researchers have said that as much as seventy-five percent of all illnesses are self-induced.

If you have a lot of heavy emotions riding on whether you attain your goal (that is, if you will be very upset if you don't get what you want), you will tend to work against yourself. In your fear of not getting what you want, you may actually be energizing the idea of not getting it as much as or more than you are energizing the goal itself.

We're our own worst enemies a lot of the time, but I still blame men.

Tommy, though. Smart as hell, he could think himself out of any hole, but then would crawl back into it and sit there. It was like he chose the shit end of the stick, so nobody else would get it. A hard thing to watch.

What I was doing, I was sabotaging myself. Well, it was time I stopped.

The answer to your inquiry is quite simple. You have no need for enemies. You play that role for yourself with perfection. - Kurt Eisenhuth

Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.

I always liked playing the villain and the saboteur. Sometimes that even means I sabotage myself, but somehow I'm still here.

Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it that when life can be so hard and difficult, we compound it by self-sabotage, doing terrible things? That's always been my main area of inquiry, and it does lead you to dark places.

Myron remembered something his father once told him: People have an amazing capacity to mess up their own lives.

Some people are drawn to trouble. Some people, no matter how easy the path they are given on the walk of life, will find a way to mess it all up.

Let this matter be settled once and for all. Know that nothing and no one, including you, can sabotage your salvation.

Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.

Our greatest fear is fear of success. When we are succeeding—that is, when we have begun to overcome our self-doubt and self-sabotage, when we are advancing in our craft and evolving to a higher level—that's when panic strikes.

We get ourselves in trouble because it's a cheap way to get attention. Trouble is a faux form of fame.

Of all the manifestations of Resistance, most only harm ourselves. Criticism and cruelty harm others as well.