Self-Defeating Behaviors Quotes

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

We are really the victims of our own problems.

Excuses are the explanations we use for hanging on to behaviors we don't like about ourselves; they are self-defeating behaviors we don't know how to change. InExcuses Begone! I review 18 of the most common excuses people use, such as "I'm too busy, too old, too fat, too scared or it's going to take too long or be too difficult."

My biggest enemy is typically me.

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.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

Rather than setting yourself a New Year's resolution, why not simply pick a reason for hating yourself for the next 365 days? Takes less time, and it's easier to stick to.

You know how you get close to something you want and then you start doing things to ensure that you don't quite get it? I did a lot of that.

If you're going to worry about what people say, you're never going to make any progress.

Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

I think my worst enemy was myself. It's like I've been in my own way more than anybody else has been.

I failed eighth grade twice, and then they moved me up to ninth grade. Then I failed that and dropped out. My teacher would hand me a test, and I'd grade it myself with an F, then put my head down on the desk.

Too many of us suffer from pervasive feelings of personal powerlessness. We have a terrible habit of obstructing our own paths forward, especially at the worst possible moments.

Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%.

There are a whole host of psychological phenomenon humans have developed to protect ourselves from the sting of failure, from holding ourselves less accountable for our failures than we do other people, to letting our fear paralyze us and keep us from even trying.

As entrepreneurs, or artists, or just people with dreams, the worst thing you can do is get so caught up in planning the perfect idea that you never get around to actually... well, doing it. I call this building castles in your mind.

I've always been the biggest bully to myself.

I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.

The greatest enemy one ever faces is one's own self.

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.

If the Devil can only make you think that you are abused or ill treated, and you begin to fret about it, and you give the Devil power over you - in the end, it is as bad as though you had done wrong yourself.

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.