Best Self Sabotage Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“Notice how shame, consciously or unconsciously, pulls us away from risk, ratifies our negative sense of worth through self-sabotage, or compels us into frenetic efforts at overcompensation, grandiosity, or yearning for validation that never comes. How much each of us needs to remember theologian Paul Tillich’s definition of grace as accepting the fact that we are accepted, despite the fact that we are unacceptable.”

Grace Shame Self Sabotage Grandiosity Overcompensation Accepted Despite Unacceptable

Book:What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life

Source: What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life

“Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consideration into her life choices, but both sisters wound up equally mired in their own bullshit. Celine's decision-making required more cognitive energy, but not necessarily more thought.”

Self Sabotage Self Deceit

Book:The Happy Couple

Source: The Happy Couple

“You see, I’d created this character for myself. This self-deprecating Pied Piper of a young guy. Then I became that.”

Acting Self Awareness Masculinity Self Sabotage Method Acting Pied Piper

Author:Matty Healy

Fears Fake People Paranoia Self Sabotage Self Hate Voices Inside Your Head Delusions Quotes Doubts And Conflicts

Book:Red Sugar, No More

Source: Red Sugar, No More

“I have engineered my entire existence around the belief that if I didn't bleed for it, it ain’t fucking mine.”

Self Sabotage Shadow Work Modern Philosophy The New Sincerity Survival Mode Existential Grit Hustle Culture Hangover The Currency Of Suffering Blood Equity Hyper Independence

Book:Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional”

Inspiration Anxiety Self Sabotage Psycology Self Doubt Quotes

Book:Don't Believe Everything You Think: A Path to Freedom from Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Self-Sabotage

Source: Don't Believe Everything You Think: A Path to Freedom from Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Self-Sabotage

“In shadows deep, I tread once more; a whispered wish to close the door. Yet when the light breaks through the night, I still ponder the fading fight. Oh, Jesus, embrace me now. This, I do not desire, not in the least. The Akathisia, a relentless tide, and the long, weary battle with withdrawal's grip have shattered my spirit and left me undone, and now, I choose to close this chapter To find peace in the silence that follows.”

Depression Suicide Schizophrenia Hell On Earth Self Sabotage Akathisia Benzodiazepine Withdrawal Psychiatric Abuse

Book:Glad You're Not Me

Source: Glad You're Not Me

“We each have our own ways of sabotaging & keeping ourselves down…Do we need to remain the victim so strongly that we pull the ceiling down upon our own heads? There is a comfort in the familiar. Also, it is important to us to be in control because as children being abused we were not at all in control. In self-sabotage we can be both the victim & the victimizer.”

Healing Comfortable Victim Control Comfort Zone Abuse Survivors Survivors Healing Insights Self Sabotage Victimization Healing From Abuse Recovery From Abuse Victim Role

Book:Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse

Source: Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse

“Self-sabotage will make danger look like comfort, and enemies look like friends.”

Haters Sabotage Self Sabotage Sabotaged Frienimes

Author:Andrena Sawyer

“When you're always defending yourself from something you think is coming around the next corner, when you think the world is against you, there isn't much of a chance for the good stuff to come through. It's okay to be furious if your fury is aimed in the right direction. Just don't let it eat up what's soft in you.”

Self Sabotage Putting Up Walls

Book:City of Villains

Source: City of Villains

“It takes but a handful of words to ambush my soul with hope. Yet, the vexing question in it all is why do I so often ambush the words?”

Soul Quotes Hope Words Hopeful Sabotage Self Sabotage Ambush Undermine

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I know this perfectly well, but it was precisely this that I liked - her thinking me silly. Such a peculiar vice: to be secretly pleased to be allowed to observe that one is being slightly robbed.”

Theft Vice Silliness Self Sabotage Foolery

Book:Jakob von Gunten

Source: Jakob von Gunten

“I simply do not believe I’m allowed to have the thing unless I utterly destroy myself to get it.”

Self Sabotage Shadow Work Visceral Reality Unworthiness Hustle Culture Hangover The Currency Of Suffering Deep Psychology Internal Monologue Martyrdom Complex The Cost Of Desire

Book:Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“Any excuse that grants me permission to somehow compromise what I am capable of achieving is the ‘worst of me’ undermining the ‘best of me’ in a manner that will never be capable of ‘excusing me.”

Worst Justify Potential Best Excuses Rationalize Self Sabotage Undermine

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I simply look at the map that I’ve so tediously created, it will explain why I’m laying at the bottom of this cliff looking up.”

“The most dangerous way we sabotage ourselves is by waiting for the perfect moment to begin. Nothing works perfectly the first time, or the first fifty times. Everything has a learning curve. The beginning is just that - a beginning. Surrender your desire to do it flawlessly on the first try. It's not possible. Learn to learn. Learn to fail. Learn to learn from failing. And begin today. Begin now. Stop waiting.”

Perfect Learning Failure Perfection Surrender Mistakes Procrastination Perfectionism Flawless Self Sabotage Prcrastinate

Author:Vironika Tugaleva

“When all becomes dark, did something horrible befall us or did we pull shades?”

Dark Darkness Self Destruction Self Hatred Self Sabotage Self Condemnation

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Why was it that the few ties she fashioned always ended up coming undone by her own doing?”

Friendship Loneliness Alone Loner Self Sabotage Loss Of Friendship Loss Of Friend

Book:The Paragon

Source: The Paragon

“As always, I destroy everything around me. Even the dandelion that always seemed to be so full of life is slowly withering away… I might as well extinguish what remains of the sun by this point”

Friendship Fantasy Sad Emotions Destruction Betrayal Sad Quotes Self Sabotage Morally Grey Deep Life Quotes

Book:The Timekeeper's Secret

Source: The Timekeeper's Secret

“Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.”

Self Hands Form Procrastination Sabotage Self Sabotage Stop Procrastination

Author:Alyce Cornyn-Selby

“Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.”

Art War Self Artist Force Art Is Warrior Sabotage Self Sabotage

Author:Steven Pressfield

“My first kiss was with a girlfriend. And it was at a party. I think I was hopeful that that would happen, but I didn't plan it. You know, honestly, I think if there's a little too much planning, it's almost just like self-sabotage. Because then, you want it to go a certain way and it just doesn't. And then you're like, 'Awww, why!?!'”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Want Firsts Littles Self Happens Certain Party Too Much Plans Kissing Honestly Planning Girlfriend Hopeful First Kiss Sabotage Self Sabotage My First Kiss

Author:Tyler Blackburn

“Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.”

Ifs Self Can Do Failure Sabotage Self Sabotage

Author:Armand DiMele

“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.”

Thinking Knows Humans Persons Self Fall Conditions Essentials Victim Fascinated Human Condition Relatable Sabotage Self Sabotage

Author:Kit Williamson

“People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.”

People Hands Literature Gratitude Respect Kicks Bites Boots Being Thankful Sabotage True Believer Self Sabotage

Author:Eric Hoffer

“I don't know an actor who hasn't let himself down at some point. I imagine it's the same in politics. There's always the potential to self sabotage.”

Knows Self Actors Imagine Sabotage Self Sabotage

Author:Corey Stoll

“We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own "I'm not worthy" mind-set.”

Needs Mind Self Judgment Negative Worthy Resistance Petty Sabotage Mind Set Not Worthy Self Sabotage

Author:Steven Pressfield

“Self-sabotage is when we say we want something and then go about making sure it doesn't happen.”

Want Self Happens Want Something Sabotage Self Sabotage

Author:Alyce Cornyn-Selby

“I don't want to completely self-sabotage everything that I've got and alienate everyone. But I definitely want to take some chances as I always have.”

Want Self Chance Sabotage Self Sabotage

Author:Katy Perry

“Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we’re thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don’t show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin’, no matter what.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Self Matter Shows Problem Struggle Doubt Adversity No Matter What Defeat Mindset Etc Procrastination Crap Sabotage Self-doubt Procrastinating Self Sabotage

Author:Steven Pressfield

“Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being helpless prey to impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, drops him, promises and betrays, and -crowning injury- inflicts on him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.”

“Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.”

Self Definitions Resistance Sabotage Self Sabotage

Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“The question "Is this an act of self-love or is it an act of self-sabotage?" is one you must consistently ask yourself if you are committed to having all that you want and all that you deserve. When you love yourself you feel worthy and deserving of claiming the gifts of this world. Self-love gives you peace of mind and balance. Self-love gives you self-respect and the ability to respect others. It gives you the confidence to stand up and ask for what you want. Self-love is the main ingredient in a successful, fulfilled life.”

“Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way.”

Way Mind Self Reason Conscious Program Addiction Rage Unconscious Laziness Procrastination Participation Fatigue Sabotage Conscious Mind Self Sabotage Chronic Fatigue

Book:The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

Source: The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

“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.”

Life Feels Doe Self Sometimes Feelings Struggle Doubt Easier Happy Live Life Sabotage Self-doubt Imposter Self Sabotage

Author:Jeff Jarvis

“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. (27)”

Self Hard Our Lives Hard Work Mirrors Constant Convinced Witness Smoke Sabotage Self Sabotage Self Destruct Smoke And Mirrors

Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.”

Want Giving Self Explanation Chickens Exit Sabotage Self Sabotage

Book:Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life

Source: Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life

“When we are succeeding - that is, when we have begun to overcome our self-doubt and self-sabotage, when we are advancing in our craft and evolving to a higher level - that's when panic strikes. When we experience panic, it means that we're about to cross a threshold. We're poised on the doorstep of a higher plane.”

Mean Self Levels Doubt Higher Succeed Crosses Overcoming Strikes Crafts Evolve Planes Panic Threshold Advancing Higher Level Sabotage Self-doubt Doorstep Self Sabotage

Author:Steven Pressfield

“Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.”

Self Form Love Is Lecturer Sabotage Self Harm Withholding Self Sabotage

Author:Marianne Williamson

“But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.”

My Own Sabotage Executioners Self Sabotage

Author:John Donne