Top 34 Destructive Thoughts Quotes
#1. It is understandable why a person might shirk a brutal self-assessment until the unforgiving talons of a reckless life rips their thin skin covertures into shreds leaving a person ensnared in their destructive thoughts and lacerated with bolts of self-incrimination.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#2. Daily life is an ongoing adaptation process of imprinting our memory's storage center with useful data and the ceaseless expurgation of undesirable facts, exfoliation of destructive thoughts, and weeding out annoying emotional quirks that seemingly sprout out of thin air.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#3. If a steaming hot potato fell in your hands you would get it off you as soon as you could. Do the same with negative destructive thoughts- just release them as fast as you can.
John Assaraf
#4. Too many of us live with an uncontrolled thought life. It is possible to learn to identify destructive thoughts and make wiser choices. Instead of letting those thoughts rumble freely about in my mind, I make the choice to harness them and direct them toward truth.
Lysa TerKeurst
#5. I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.
David Walliams
#6. Destructive thoughts have influence, too, and we all know it's far easier to destroy than it is to create.
Dan Brown
#7. We are to think about, ponder, and park our minds on constructive thoughts, not destructive thoughts.
Lysa TerKeurst
#8. This power makes no attempt to discriminate between destructive thoughts and constructive thoughts, that it will urge us to translate into physical reality thoughts of poverty, just as quickly as it will influence us to act upon thoughts of riches.
Napoleon Hill
#9. Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you're seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions.
Dalai Lama
#10. Destructive thoughts prevent your body from collaborating with your deepest wishes and needs. Sabotage has never been the road to success.
Thorbjorg Hafsteinsdottir
#11. AUTOSUGGESTION is the agency of control through which an individual may voluntarily feed his subconscious mind on thoughts of a creative nature, or, by neglect, permit thoughts of a destructive nature to find their way into this rich garden of the mind.
Napoleon Hill
#12. He sat staring before him, seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers, inexhaustable and prolific to the end of time.
Edith Pargeter
#13. I'm a feminist. The women in my books in recent years have been powerful characters and I love to see a woman with a cute bottom walking past.
Wilbur Smith
#14. Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.
Bill Bradley
#15. Just as you wouldn't allow a destructive stranger into your home, don't allow harmful, unchecked thoughts to occupy space in your mind.
Shannon Tanner
#17. You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive act of writing with other self-destructive acts. I certainly was one of those people for a long time.
Ben Gibbard
#18. The most interesting characters are those you're drawn to, then repelled by, and then come to understand. All that tension - I live that. But I don't plan the tension. It's just something that should happen.
Rachel Weisz
#19. Rehashing thoughts of painful events from the past or imagining negative events of the future is self-abuse and can be more destructive than physical harm.
Maddy Malhotra
#20. Now I know who you are U got nothin' on me, I see I should've known it from the start You can't tell me lies Don't even try cuz This is goodbye Goodbye
Demi Lovato
#21. To hack away at the oppressive darkness that continued to try to smother her so she could defend a new dawn.
Elise Kova
#22. Arrogance occurs in people who have achieved something and believe that they independently caused their own success with no assistance, support, or input from others.
Cherie Carter-Scott
#23. The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful.
Dalai Lama
#24. He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.
William Blake
#25. When I capture my thoughts and compare them to the truth of God's Word, I often find they are false, deceptive, or destructive.
Lori Hatcher
#26. When we hold our thoughts up against God's standards of what is true and what is real, we can recognize and, with His help, learn to release many of our negative emotions, damaging thoughts, and destructive attitudes.
Elizabeth George
#27. A destructive thought process exists within all of us, and we are plagued to varying degrees by an internal dialogue that is harmful, restrictive, and at its ultimate extreme, self-destructive.
Lisa Firestone
#28. Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.
Charles Bradlaugh
#29. There are few things more destructive than thoughts believed without question.
Vironika Tugaleva
#30. Negative thoughts and emotions are what obstruct our most basic aspiration - to be happy and to avoid suffering. When we act under their influence, we become oblivious to the impact our actions have on others: they are thus the cause of our destructive behavior both toward others and to ourselves.
Dalai Lama XIV
#31. I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.
Ann Brashares
#32. Fear clouds our convictions and distorts our discernment. When we fill our minds with negative predictions or allow our thoughts to manipulate us into thinking about all the possible destructive outcomes of our mission, we invite fear to paralyze our progress.
Kris Vallotton
#33. I obviously disagree with the individuals who do not support rural America and do not support rural airports. Under their philosophy, maybe we shouldn't even be paving roads in rural America, because there are fewer people that drive on them.
Glenn Thompson
