Top 48 Self Sabotage Quotes
#1. The world will be hostile, it will be suspicious of your intent, it will misinterpret you, it will inject you with doubt, it will flatter you into self-sabotage. What the world is, more than anything? It's indifferent.
Maria Semple
#2. 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
#3. The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions and drives us to unthinkable acts of self-destruction and not-so-unbelievable acts of self-sabotage.
Debbie Ford
#4. 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
#5. 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.
Steven Pressfield
#6. Self-sabotage is when we say we want something and then go about making sure it doesn't happen.
Alyce Cornyn-Selby
#7. What is required for many of us, paradoxical though it may sound, is the courage to tolerate happiness without self-sabotage.
Nathaniel Branden
#8. Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.
Alyce Cornyn-Selby
#9. 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)
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#10. 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.
Katy Perry
#11. Our greatest fear is fear of success. 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.
Steven Pressfield
#13. Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.
Armand DiMele
#14. 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.
Steven Pressfield
#15. All of our actions can signify self-love or self-sabotage
Sharon Salzberg
#16. Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
Marianne Williamson
#17. 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.
Corey Stoll
#18. When life throws difficulties at us and the mind is restless, emotional resilience will see us through challenging times. We can work through tempestuous emotions and self-doubt and come through them unharmed and avoid self-sabotage and self-harm.
Christopher Dines
#19. Was I ever going to find someone to grow old with? Or would I continue to self-sabotage my own happiness?
Eliza Lentzski
#20. When you 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
#21. I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-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
#24. Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.
Ali Vincent
#25. 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
#26. 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.
Charles Eisenstein
#28. 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
#29. It is not uncommon for someone to be a self-saboteur and compound that by also having a victim mentality. It is as though they are holding their own breath and then blaming others for their inability to breathe. If they can break free from this cycle, everything in their life changes for the better.
Steve Maraboli
#30. Molly, you are a good person. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Not even yourself.
Jim Butcher
#31. I said Matt was too perfect. I was tired of trying to love him, tired of the burden of being loved. How could anyone live with all that devotion and understanding? The scale was tilted so far in my favor it felt like an unbearable weight, a fortune I was compelled to squander.
James Whitfield Thomson
#32. 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.
Robert Walser
#33. The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her "job" is that the children's growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced as a refutation of the mother's indispensability, and she may unconsciously sabotage their growth as a result.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#34. And there's also 'To him that hath shall be given.' After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.
C.S. Lewis
#36. 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
#37. More times than I'm willing to admit I am my own worst enemy, which suggests that more times than I'm willing to admit I should allow God to be my own best friend.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#38. Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#39. I often think myself to be so ingenious that I don't even realize that my own plans may actually be my own undoing. Therefore, I might be wise to realize that God's plans undo what I've done that's undoing me.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#40. Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#41. We make tactless remarks because we wish to hurt, break our legs because we do not wish to walk, marry the wrong man because we cannot let ourselves be happy, board the wrong train because we would prefer not to reach the destination.
Fay Weldon
#42. You can't imagine just how much believing in negative thoughts is affecting your life ... until you stop.
Charles F. Glassman
#43. Re-claim your power, don't you dare shrink your worth for someone elses glory.
They'll attempt to sabotage your greatnes but it is you that will feel the aftermath of your unwritten story.
Nikki Rowe
#44. We are always immeasurably bigger than the little person we've too often doomed ourselves to be.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#45. If you think of something, do it.
Plenty of people often think, I'd like to do this, or that.
Lydia Davis
#46. The barrier to our future is often the very plans that we've created to get there.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#47. I decry the injustice of my wounds, only to look down and see that I am holding a smoking gun in one hand and a fistful of ammunition in the other.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#48. More times than I can remember I look around and I ask why the hole I'm in looks so strangely familiar. Probably because it looks a whole lot like all the other ones I dug before I got around to digging this one.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
