Robert G. Allen Quotes

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

I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.

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

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.

I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, 'You've got everything going for you right now', and I say, 'Oh yes, but!' Which is not a good way to be.

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

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

I think my worst enemy is me.

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.

I'm my own worst enemy.

I think I'm my own worst enemy.

Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.

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

Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not here to tell you that defeat is a part of life: we all know that. Only the defeated know Love. Because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles – and generally lose. I am here to tell you that there are people who have never been defeated. They are the ones who never fought. They managed to avoid scars, humiliations, feelings of helplessness, as well as those moments when even warriors doubt the existence of God.’’ Manuscript Found In Accra – Paulo Coelho

Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.

Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.

The greatest detriment to many people's success tomorrow is their thinking today.

I'm allergic to coming in second but I never sneeze.

When you win, there's glory enough for everybody. When you lose, there's glory for none.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

Who’s gonna make you happy when you’re your own worst enemy?

But I'm not ready to stop listening to the screwed-up inner voice that's been ordering me around for a lifetime. My head thinks it can kill me... and go on living without me.

Don't become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief in your mind?

Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.