Kameron Hurley Quotes

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.

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 think my worst enemy is me.

My biggest enemy is typically me.

I'm afraid to fail again.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

I see the bad in everything I do.

Sometimes my negativity worked to my advantage, and early in my career, it got me going. But you need to understand that you're not just fighting opponents, you're also fighting yourself.

It doesn't matter how many people say 'well, everyone makes mistakes Ricky, you've had a great career you should be proud of yourself' but that doesn't mean much compared to what goes on between my ears.

I was my worst critic ever.

I'm my own worst enemy.

Failure affects me hard.

I think I'm my own worst enemy.

You can drive your own self crazy. You don't have to be in a bad situation or be bullied every day to feel this way. I was constantly judging myself. That's really the thing that gets you.

There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.

Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use - I can't do it.'

I'm not a suicidal person at all, but on paper it seems that I am. I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many ways. You always think it's going to be fine, the body will repair itself. There will be another chance. But I'm 33 now. The body won't keep repairing itself. You know when you can flick a coin and catch it on your elbow, and flick it up and catch it on the back of your head? And then you can't even catch it with two hands any more. You realise something is wrong.

My toughest enemy is in the mirror - would you look at that.

I promote my own self-hatred.

People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.

I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

You can't imagine how hard I am on myself. Nothing pummels me like my own doubts, the feeling of how far I still have to go.

People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way of your success, and that was the case for me.