Quotes About Self-sabotage

If a self-concept cannot accommodate a given level of success, and if the self-concept does not change, it is predictable that the person will find ways to self-sabotage.

Not all communication problems are the result of inadequate education; sometimes the cause is a self-concept that generates self-sabotage.

Have we ever had an enemy worse than ourselves?

What is it that drives us to seek such lofty goals, yet tear out the foundations? Why must we always sabotage the pursuit of our own dreams?" "We are imperfect beings," Munira said. "How could we ever fit in a perfect world?

I come from a very dysfunctional family, so I was comfortable in misery. So I would create more misery for myself because I didn't know anything else.

The thing you have to be on guard against, more than anything, is self-sabotage. You have to make sure you're not your own worst enemy.

Self-sabotage is the common denominator in all forms of anxiety and depression, whether rooted in the body, soul or spirit.

I have done it again.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

Every man is his own worst enemy

I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

We are our own worst enemy.

We violate no body so much as our own: towards it we display the perversity of the cat that constantly rips its wounds open.

Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step.

Excuses are easy lies we tell ourselves to cover up our failures. One such excuse is, only dishonest people get ahead. This is also a lie. MAKE

In revering the Founders, we undervalue ourselves and sabotage our own efforts to make improvements - necessary improvements - in the republican experiment they began.

The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.

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

Anybody possessing analytical knowledge recognizes the fact that the world is full of actions performed by people exclusively to their detriment and without perceptible advantage, although their eyes were open

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.

And if I do fall asleep, Marla has to keep track of Tyler. Where he goes. What he does. So maybe during the day, I can rush around and undo the damage.

I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.

paradoxical intention" on the twofold fact that fear brings about that which one is afraid of, and that hyper-intention makes impossible what one wishes.