Lee Atwater Quotes

Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.

Why can't you and I let the world run itself its own way?

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

For me, the most interesting people are ones who often work against their best interests. Bad choices. They go in directions where you go, 'No no no nooo!' You push away someone who is trying to love you, you hurt someone who's trying to get your trust, or you love someone you shouldn't.

I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

wit is often its own worst enemy.

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.

I have this part in myself that sometimes gets me into situations that can never end well, just because I want to prove to myself that I'm no good.

I think my worst enemy is me.

We can all be self-destructive. I make terrible choices all the time. It's uncomfortable to admit that you did a thing that was selfish and that you knew would hurt someone else.

I wanted to get punished, and I took unnecessary punishment when I was fighting.

I'm my own worst enemy.

By nature, I'm a very self-destructive person, but all that happens is that I just get more successful every time I do it. Someday I'll come crashing down, so that's why I try to keep a good attitude about it all.

Every time I've ever gotten close to being successful, I've found some way to screw it up.

I think I'm my own worst enemy.

One would like to know, what were foes made for except to be used?

Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies.

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

Sometimes, when you want to make a difference in a person's life, stay out of it.

Enemies,' the wizard said, 'are the price of honour.

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.