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Self Defeating Quotes & Sayings

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Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating. — Camille Paglia

Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating. — Peter Shepherd

An excuse is the most expensive brand of self defeat you will ever purchase. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. — Renata Adler

Love what you do and do what you love,
otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating. — Alan Sugar

Here's a payoff for everyone. The reason we hang on to self-defeating behaviors is because it's easier not to take responsibility. — Wayne Dyer

Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating. — Michael Landon

Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left. — Chris Bradford

Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare. — Eric Voegelin

Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world
to an individual or to a nation. — Frank Sinatra

Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating. — Melody Beattie

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. — Max Eastman

I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating. — Harvey Cox

That is why the key to long-lasting success is to develop habits - new, positive habits that replace our self-defeating behaviors. — Rick Warren

Excuses are contagious, self-defeating bad habits. Where — Tommy Newberry

Stop validating your victim mentality. Shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve. — Steve Maraboli

Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Quentin's conversations with his parents were so circular and self-defeating, they sounded like experimental theater. — Lev Grossman

Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it? — Evgeny Morozov

Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating. — Chris Hadfield

Isolation is a self-defeating dream. — Carlos Salinas De Gortari

To follow precisely the lead of others or advice from a book is self-defeating — Robert Greene

Nobody wants to tell a truth which harms himself. — Toba Beta

This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics. — John Mearsheimer

The very lack of opportunity the group faces creates a self-defeating cycle and puts pressure on members to limit their aspirations. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

I've never worn costume jewelry in my life. It's really very self-defeating. Why should a man buy a woman real jewelry when she wears false pieces? — Gloria Guinness

Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others. — Leo Buscaglia

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied. — Vernon Howard

My son . . . guilt, in proper measure, can be a useful emotion. However, when indulged to excess it becomes self-defeating, and even worse, tedious. — Lisa Kleypas

Sitting with a bunch of adults and arguing about what's going to be most effective for kids is just sort of self-defeating. — Jake Barton

You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating. — Bill Keller

Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating. — P. Chidambaram

The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn. — Carol S. Dweck

Success - is not about defeating others; but about defeating oneself — Ashok Kallarakkal

Shutting down discussion is self-defeating and impedes progress. We need to talk and listen and debate and refute and instruct and learn and evolve. — Sheryl Sandberg

Fear is the single most self-defeating emotion in our lives. — Richard Carlson

Replace your self-defeating thoughts with self-supporting thoughts. — Deepak Chopra

Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating. — Peter Singer

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating. — Henry Flynt

There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines. — David Lloyd-Jones

Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates. — Ludwig Von Mises