Quotes About Self-sabotage

Procrastination is the most common manifestation of resistance.

Creating soap opera in our lives is a symptom of Resistance.

The Three P's": Perfectionism, Procrastination, and Paralysis.

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

People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.

We make tactless remarks because we wish to hurt, break our legs because we do not wish to walk, marry the wrong man because we cannot let ourselves be happy, board the wrong train because we would prefer not to reach the destination.

In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.

Well the truth is, Santino didn't beat me, because I beat myself.

Most of us can be counted on to manage our own undoings.

Parents are the mystified criminals, blinking in the docks, making it all the worse for themselves with every word they utter.

Whatever. I prefer our kind of crazy—we pretty much only screw with ourselves.

My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.

I'd always spoil what I did so nobody would ask me to do it again.

I was discovered on YouTube and I think I was detrimental to my own career.

There are people who never pass a certain point in their emotional development. They cannot live a normal free-and-easy, give-and-take life with a sexual partner for more than a short time. Something inside them will not tolerate happiness. The better it gets, the more they have to destroy it.

One by one I've fucked myself out of all these free meals which I had planned so carefully.

If you lie to yourself, you become your worst enemy, attacking from inside. (from The Amazing You movie)

Sometimes, we can be our worst enemy. That our mind is capable of twisting and turning things, and taking us to really dark places.

I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.

For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.

The challenge is that often when we think about success or think about our goals, we think it'll be good, and there will also be something which is bad. Therefore we have an inner conflict. If we can't iron out that conflict, we exhaust ourselves fighting against part of us that wants to do this, and part of us that doesn't want to do it. We're pushed and pulled in all kinds of directions by our own internal programs, many of which are unconscious to us.

The word is pure magic — the most powerful gift we have as humans — and we use it against ourselves

Sometimes we don't move forward because the people who love us the most unconsciously sabotage our efforts.

What I've learned from talking to so many victims of traumatic events, abuse, or neglect is that after absorbing these painful experiences, the child begins to ache. A deep longing to feel needed, validated, and valued begins to take hold. As these children grow, they lack the ability to set a standard for what they deserve. And if that lack is not addressed, what often follows is a complicated, frustrating pattern of self-sabotage, violence, promiscuity, or addiction.