Self Defeating Quotes
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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
Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.
— Michael Landon
Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.
— Eric Voegelin
Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.
— Melody Beattie
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
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
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
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
