Self-Defeating Thoughts Quotes

My biggest enemy is typically me.

Make no mistake: Satan’s specialty is psychological warfare. If he can turn us on God (“It’s not fair!”), or turn us on others (“It’s their fault!”), or turn us on ourselves (“I’m so stupid!”), we won’t turn on him. If we keep fighting within ourselves and losing our own inner battles, we’ll never have the strength to stand up and fight our true enemy.

I get in my own head, and at the end of the day, I'm my biggest critic, and I'm my worst enemy, too.

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

Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.

We all have things that limit us and that challenge us. But really, our real limitations are the ones we believe.

When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.

The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.

There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.

My rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) was one of the very few therapies that was originated partly or largely because I wanted to be brief and efficient. And therefore right from the start I was active and directive. I tried to show people some central masturbatory core to their philosophy and to get them to work at changing it cognitively, emotionally and behaviorally.

The fool who repeats again and again: "I am bound, I am bound," remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: "I am a sinner, I am a sinner," becomes a sinner indeed.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

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.'

For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction.

I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

Pronounce your limitations vigorously enough and they're yours.

Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it that when life can be so hard and difficult, we compound it by self-sabotage, doing terrible things? That's always been my main area of inquiry, and it does lead you to dark places.

The only thing that can possibly keep you from going after your dreams is the person standing in your shoes, wearing your clothes, and thinking your negative thoughts.

Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?

My biggest enemy is me and even I can't stop me

But if you kept thinking about a fight you’d lost, Mom said, you were programming yourself to lose again.

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