Quotes About Self-sabotage

Just like always, men are their own worst enemies.

Big is bad is a lie. It's quite possibly the worst lie of all, for if you fear big success, you'll either avoid it or sabotage your efforts to achieve it.

Most people don't know they secretly go after that which will punish them somehow — not in every area of their life, but always in some way.

Surely the Greeks had a word for it, choosing to act in one's own very worst interests? Yes, they did. It was akrasia.

It's one thing to shoot yourself in the foot. Just don't reload the gun.

Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and as it were, his owne executioner.

Paranoids are not paranoids (Proverb 5) because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.

We all know that once we allow fear to hijack us and step into the driver's seat of our lives, that we're apt to say and do some really dumb, pretty destructive things.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

there is, after all, no harsher bitterness than that of a person who is his own worst enemy.

How am I getting in my own way?

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.

I don't need any outside enemies. I have a perfectly good one residing right between my ears.

When things are going well, or when you're feeling particularly good, you can always bring yourself down by manufacturing a stream of worry-thoughts. Once you've brought yourself down by worrying, it's very tempting to inflict those worry-thoughts on others. If we're in the grip of worrying while someone around us isn't, we seem to have an almost uncontrollable urge to criticize that person until he or she jumps into the stream of negativity with us.

unless you were me, once again distorting reality so it would fit a negative mindset. I don't need any outside enemies. I have a perfectly good one residing right between my ears.

we're learning to let ourselves enjoy love, abundance, and other forms of positive energy without sabotaging ourselves.

Yo me hago daño y me saboteo a mí mismo para no hacer daño a nadie que no se lo merezca.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them - and then you destroy yourself.

Man is his own worst enemy.

I've married a man who is so afraid of living, he'd rather destroy the very thing that makes him feel alive.

If you don't believe in yourself, somewhere or another, you sabotage yourself.

When you heart knows it doesn't belong there, it will continue to self sabotage your future, until you make the choice you wanted, but found a million excuses not to pursue.

Petty minds foster petty hearts, and have the funny habit of shooting themselves in the foot.