Marshall Goldsmith Quotes

When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time.

When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.

I've always known if anything killed me, it would be boys. From the time I was a teenager into my thirties, I loved only the ones who were bad news.

The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.

Those who are not good to others are bad to themselves.

There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

I know I'm not doing myself any favors by continuing to play.

I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself.

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

Don't paint a nasty picture of your exes. We'll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Running with the wrong crowd will never help you.

I'm attracted to heartbreakers.

Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself.

No man is hurt but by himself.

Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad.

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

We should not pour muck on ourselves.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.

Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.

I drink too much, I smoke too much, I take pills too much, I work too much, I girl around too much, I everything too much.

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

What feeds me destroys me.