Quotes on Self Sabotage

If you are looking for some quotes on self destruction to help you work through, or grow from, self sabotage- well, you’re in the right place.

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Quotes on Self Sabotage

(To help you learn how to be better.)

Before we end our series on self sabotage, I want to do something different. Today, we will be giving you x quotes on self sabotage.

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73 Quotes on Self Destruction

1. “My appetite for self-destruction and misery is greatly diminished. I’m not interested in being unhappy.” – Boy George

2. “There’s something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.” – Gerard Way

3. “The status quo leads to self-destruction.” – Emmanuel Macron

4. “We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.” – Wolfgang Goethe

5. “Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.” – Donna Tartt

6. “I know what it is to want something that could destroy you.” – Nenia Campbell

7. “Drunkenness is temporary suicide.” – Bertrand Russell

8. “Do not kick against the pricks; you will hurt yourself.” – Aeschylus

9. “Be the flame, not the moth.” – Giacomo Casanova

10. “Sometimes the best offense was avoiding self-destruction.” – Brandon Mull

11. “Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself.” – English Proverb

12. “It would be a sin to help you destroy yourself.” – Leo Tolstoy

13. “Don’t saw off the branch you are sitting on.” – International Proverb

14. “In order to understand, I destroyed myself.” – Fernando Pessoa

15. “Sometimes, I am my own worst enemy.” – Tim McGraw

16. “If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, ‘I’d like to do this, or that’.” – Lydia Davis

17. “I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I know who I really was.” – Sade Andria Zabala

18. “Having a low opinion of yourself is not ‘modesty’. It’s self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not ‘egotism’. It’s a necessary precondition to happiness and success.” – Bobbe Sommer

19. “Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.” – Alyce Cornyn-Selby

20. “The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.” – Cassia Leo

21. “Sometimes you hit a point where you either change or self destruct.” – Sam Stevens

22. “Why is it that we don’t worry about a compass until we’re lost in a wilderness of our own making?” – Craig D. Lounsbrough

23. “Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.” – Ja A. Jahannes

24. “Direct lies, small lies, huge lies, and lies of omission… these are all self-serving and sources of self-destruction.” – Cathy Burnham Martin

25. “How am I getting in my own way?” – Gay Hendricks

26. “Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.” – Steven Pressfield

27. “This is how women self-sabotage and self-destruct. Unless we have constant witnesses to our hard work, we are convinced we pull off every day of our lives through smoke and mirrors.” – Sarah Breathnach

28. “I am really fascinated by self-sabotage. I think that there’s not a person I know who doesn’t fall victim to it. It’s essential to the human condition, and relatable.” – Kit Williamson

29. “I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough

30. “Cry wolf often enough and you eventually get eaten by the wolf, even if the wolf is you.” – Kris Kidd

31. “I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-by-moment way, I’m quite happy. But, I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there’s been a good degree of self-sabotage.” – Patrick DeWitt

32. “The biggest thing holding you back is almost always… you. Start there.” – Hunter Post

33. “I felt a strange delight in causing my decay.” – Robert Browning

34. “Our biggest enemy is our own self-doubt. We really can achieve extraordinary things in our lives. But, we sabotage our greatness because of our fear.” – Robin Sharma

35. “Don’t sabotage yourself. There are plenty of other people willing to do that for free.” – Jenny Lawson

36. “Self-sabotage is the proverbial hammer over the head that finally wakes us up, demanding that we pay attention. For most of us, it takes something devastating to crack us open, to get us out of our minds and into our hearts.” – Debbie Ford

37. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Fail Quotes

38. “Much of your pain is self-chosen.” – Khalil Gibran

39. “When your heart knows it doesn’t belong there, it will continue to self sabotage your future, until you make the choice you wanted, but found a million excuses not to pursue.” – Shannon L. Alder

40. “Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.” – Aesop

41. “Like most other creatives, I struggle with self-sabotage, self-doubt, and feeling like an imposter more often than not. I struggle with expressing myself, because it does sometimes feel easier or safer not to.” – Jeff Jarvis

42. “We’re fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.” – Plutarch

43. “The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.” – Rita Mae Brown

45. “There’s nothing cool about being self-destructive.” – Patti Smith

46. “Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.” – Daniel Defoe

47. “Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you’re sabotaging a self that is not really you.” – Armand DiMele

48. “Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.” – Helen Clark MacInnes

49. “My default is self-destruction, and anything on top of that is a bloody lot of work.” – Gillian Anderson

50. “The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle.” – Dorothy Thompson

51. “Worry is just about the worst form of mental activity there is-next to hate, which is deeply self destructive. Worry is pointless. It is wasted mental energy. It also created bio-chemical reactions which harm the body, producing everything from indigestion to coronary arrest, and a multitude of things in between.” – Neale Donald Walsch

52. “When you don’t work together, you can’t emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a “lonely struggle” and individual self-destruction.” – Haile Gerima

53. “One thing so self-destructive is being unaware that you’re not okay.” – Rekeshallys

54. “Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime.” – Kamahl

55. “I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.” – Sam Taylor-Wood

56. “If you are self-important, you are self-destructive.” – Yamini

57. “Destruction is easy for humans but creation is too difficult.” – Daniel J. Boorstin

58. “If you’re not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.” – Victoria Osteen

59. “Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction.” – Russell Brand

60. “Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.” – Anne Rice

61. “It’s been said to me that I’m self-destructive because I’ll walk away from things that are good.” – Ariel Rechtshaid

62. “When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.” – Honore de Balzac

63. “Without love, the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

64. “The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.” – Seneca The Younger

65. “And when I get bored, it’s like the worst parts of me come out I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.” – Zoe Kazan

66. “When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.” – John Cheever

67. “Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There’s a very find line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.” – Daniel Radcliffe

68. “Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

69. “Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you’re sane.” – Brandi Carlile

70. “I’ve always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.” – Mackenzie Phillips

71. “Doubt, not self-reflection, comes from a destructive energy, and when it rears its head, I talk to it like a lunatic.” – Gwyneth Paltrow

72. “Revenge can only be found on the road to self-destruction.” – Wayne Gerard Trotman

73. “When you’re at peace with yourself and love yourself, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.” – Wayne Dyer

And, so, there you have it!

73 Quotes on Self Sabotage

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