100 Self-Sabotage Quotes that Will Save your Life
Are you tired of arguing over nothing? Are you tired of holding onto grudges? Are you tired of hiding your emotions? Do you feel making no progress? Self-sabotage is a destructive behavior that pulls you back to places where you never wanted end up. Change your life starting today, by recognizing sabotaging patterns. What follow are 100 self-sabotaging quotes, that can turn your beliefs upside down!
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100 Self-Sabotage Quotes
Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them.
Mark Goulston
The reason that I can’t find the enemy is that I have yet to look within myself.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
I craft most of my tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding, that it is myself who have done the crafting.
Crag D. Lounsbrough
Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed our inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotages ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure.
Gay Hendricks
Stop standing in your own way. Stop making excuses. Stop talking about why you can’t. Stop sabotaging yourself. Decide which direction you are going in and take action. One decision at a time, one moment at a time.
Akiroq Brost
A critical key to achieving success lies in your ability to activate your potential to create the results you seek. Start by being aware of your self-sabotaging patterns.
Lauren Mackler
More than anything else, I wanted not to be alone – yet all my actions guaranteed I’d be lonely. Like wearing a vest of explosives when you’re coming in for a hug, insatiable need is a form of sabotage.
Gina Barreca
Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior.
Mark Victor Hansen
Self-destruction and self-sabotage are often just the start of the self-resurrection process.
Oli Anderson
Just for today, I will not sabotage anything. Not my relationships, not my self-esteem, not my plans, not my goals, not my hopes, not my dreams.
Unknown
The inner struggle you feel should not be viewed as conflict, but as creative tension to help move you forward.
Jennifer A. Williams
Be kind to yourself.
Daniella Balarezzo
One of the first steps in addressing self-sabotaging behaviors is identifying them.
Jennifer Chain
Once you understand what is behind self-sabotage, you can develop positive, self-supporting behaviors to keep you on the right track.
MindTools
Nothing will sabotage our happiness and success more thoroughly than the fear that we are not enough.
Bill Crawford
Procrastination is hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.
Alyce Cornyn-Selby
Our biggest enemy is our own self-doubt. We really can achieve extraordinary things in our lives. But we sabotage our greatness because of fear.
Robin Sharma
Having a low opinion of yourself is not ‘modesty’. It’s self destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not ‘egotism’. It’s a necessary precondition to happiness and success.
Bobbe Sommer
Just imagine how much you would get done if you stopped sabotaging your own work.
Seth Godin
Self-doubt does more to sabotage individual potential than all external limitations put together.
Brian Tracy
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 so.
Jeff Jarvis
If your parents told you growing up that you’ll never amount too much, maybe you handicap yourself so that you do fall short.
Barbara Field
The tragedy of too many people is that they cannot allow happiness just to be there; they cannot leave it alone. Their sense of who they are and of what their destiny is cannot accommodate happiness. So they are driven to find ways to sabotage it.
Nathaniel Branden
Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them.
Mark Goulston
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie
What is self-sabotage? The answer probably depends on whom you ask. If we look at Webster’s definition of sabotage, it is “an act or process tending to hamper or hurt.” Now think about that behavior being something you do to yourself, and you have a good idea of what I am talking about here. Urban dictionary defines self-sabotaging as “one who keeps screwing things up for themselves. Usually on purpose.”
Dr. Candice Seti
Once you see self-sabotage for what it really is, you can’t un-see it. It’s at home. It’s at work. It prevents people from finding true satisfaction in their lives.”
Dr. Candice Seti
Self-sabotage isn’t always the big, extreme things we do to screw up our lives.
Gary John Bishop
Fear can sabotage your everything. It can be such a loud overwhelming voice in your head. Quiet this voice now and live.
Christine E. Szymanski
And maybe the problem was that there wasn’t a problem, and I was just so not used to that, my brain was trying to make one for me. Fuck you, brain.
Alexis Hall
With regard to our health, self-sabotage can manifest itself in the ways we eat all the wrong stuff at all the wrong time, how we put off our exercise plans or use the excuse of getting caught up in the mundane details of our daily lives to explain our lack of action. We might give ourselves excuses to have “just one” cigarette or glass of wine or slice of cheesecake (which, of course turns into more), skip doctor’s visits and checkups, or just not pay enough attention to our body and what it’s telling us.
Gary John Bishop
Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.
Ja A. Johannes
It would be a sin to help you destroy yourself.
Leo Tolstoy
It’s the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.
Chris Pine
Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitude through your association with others.
Epictetus
Self-destruction and self-sabotage are often just the start of the self-resurrection process.
Oli Anderson
We really to sabotage ourselves with the dark soundtrack we have looping over and over in our minds. Whenever I hear this negative self-talk from clients, I say. “You must turn off the horrific noise going on in your head.”
Sean Stephenson
Think about the times when you argue over nothing, hold onto grudges too long, hide or lie about your emotions, judge yourself or others too harshly, or just don’t call your mom or dad or friends as much as you should. Surely that’s not self-sabotage?
Gary John Bishop
The only reason I can’t jump in and engage life is that I’ve told myself I can’t. Yet I can’t help wondering what would happen if I told myself I could?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
The biggest thing holding you back is almost always… you. Start there.
Hunter Post
I am doing everything I can to sabotage my career. It’s a little thing called fear of success.
Jon Stewart
Much of your self-esteem doesn’t come from what happens to you on a given day, or what somebody says, but what you know about yourself on the inside.
Dr. Judy Ho
Self-Sabotage doesn’t always look like avoiding the things that will get you where you want to go. Some self-saboteurs, instead of thinking their way out of things, putting something off, or looking at their future in a negative light, can actively go out of their way to remove positive things.
Dr. Candice Seti
Self-sabotage often takes the opposite approach, piling on heaps of negative actions or thoughts that cheat you out of reaching your goals. Ultimately, this approach lowers your view of yourself in a way similar to that of the avoidant types of self-sabotage – you reinforce the idea that you aren’t worthy of getting what you want, which stops you from trying.
Dr. Candice Seti
I am the greatest obstacle to my dreams.
Craig. D. Lounsbrough
The biggest disabilities are when you sabotage yourself mentally, those personal demons that get on your shoulder and you can’t shake ’em.
Zach Anner
Life is so much easier, when you stop getting in your way.
Kristin Barrow
A critical key to achieving success lies in your ability to activate your potential to create the results you seek… start by being aware of your self-sabotaging patterns.
Lauren Miackler
I sabotage myself for fear of what my bigness could do.
Alanis Morisette
The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.
Maya Angelou
Don’t let anger control you. Don’t let hate enslave you. Don’t let negativity overcome you. Don’t let bitterness conquer you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Self-sabotage can also lead to very destructive behaviors. It shatters marriages, fractures families, turns people to hard drugs, alcohol, gambling and sex addictions, infidelity, and all kinds of toxic behaviors that trash an otherwise decent life.
Gary John Bishop
Self-sabotage compounds itself and gets stronger and stronger if we don’t stop it in its tracks and push it away.
Dr. Candice Seti
Within the worlds of self-sabotage, we hold ourselves back in many different ways and create many different outcomes for ourselves.
Dr. Candice Seti
Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others, we are withholding from ourselves.
Marianne Williamson
Self-sabotage is often driven by negative self-talk, where you tell yourself that you’re inadequate, or unworthy of success.
MindTools
Many of us act as if we were deliberately out to ruin our chances of getting what we’re on the surface convinced we’re after.
The School of Life
In addressing self-sabotage, many experts focus primarily on symptom relief. But teaching people how to save money or lose weight doesn’t address the powerful component of our personalities that acts out in spite of our best intentions.
Susan Anderson
We can agree that it sounds like a silly thing to do, but we all do it.
Dr. Candice Seti
Before you can undo an unhealthy behavior, you have to understand the function it serves.
Nick Wignall
Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your association with others.
Epictetus
Darling, the world’s not really against you. The only thing that’s against you is yourself.
Unknown
By sabotaging the relationship., we are unconsciously building a wall around ourselves to ‘protect’ us from fears of being left behind.
Annie Tanasugarn
We become disconnected from people we care about. And we feel justified. Oh boy, are we justified. There’s nothing quite so damaging as the human desire to be right. How can that NOT be an act of self-sabotage?
Gary John Bishop
Do not sabotage your new relationship with your last relationship’s poison.
Steve Maraboli
If you want to stop self-sabotaging, the key is to understand why you’re doing it – what need it’s filling. Then get creative about identifying healthier, less destructive ways to get that need met.
MindTools
Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
Steven Pressfield
Challenge negative thinking with logical, positive affirmations.
MindTools
More times than I remember I look around and I ask why the hole I’m in looks so strangely familiar. Probably because it looks a lot like all the other ones I dug before I got around to digging this one.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Sometimes, we self-sabotage just when things seem to be going smoothly. Perhaps this is a way to express our fear about whether it is okay for us to have a better life.
Marueen Brady
We may destroy success from touching modesty: from the sense that we surely cannot really deserve the bounty we have received.
The School of Life
All self-sabotage, lack of belief in ourselves, low self-esteem, judgments, criticism, and demands for perfection are forms of self-abuse in which we destroy the very essence of our vitality.
Deborah Adele
Succeeding doesn’t match our limiting beliefs about ourselves.
Jennifer A. Williams
I like to think of self-sabotage as simply standing in your own way. In other words, you are blocking yourself from moving forward from the past of achieving whatever it is you want to do in life – finding a romantic relationship, getting a promotion, losing weight, traveling, or doing anything else that you find worth pursuing.
Dr. Candice Seti
Destruction can be beautiful to some people. Don’t ask me why. It just is. And if they can’t find anything to destroy, they destroy themselves.
John Knowles
Sabotage isn’t apparently committed by an “enemy agent” – or is it? Maybe the enemy agent is you yourself.
Gary John Bishop
Self-Sabotage goes hand in hand with most of the goals people have in their lives, from their careers to their relationships and everything in between.
Dr. Candice Seti
Telling yourself the truth is rarely easy, but it’s a surefire way to free yourself from your own subconscious self-sabotage trap. What makes self-reflection challenging is that you’re both the con artist and the one being conned.
Gary John Bishop
Some of us self-sabotage more frequently than others, and some of us sabotage ourselves in a way that is more debilitating, but we all do it.
Dr. Candice Seti
Self-Sabotage occurs when your drive to reduce threat is higher than your drive to attain rewards, and it’s all tied into the approach-avoidance conflict.
Dr. Judy Ho
Self-sabotage can make every single part of your life fall below what you’re capable of, meaning you’ll often find yourself feeling unsatisfied. In some cases, you can get stuck in cycles that actively destroy your life. Your overall happiness will suffer if you don’t acknowledge your self-sabotage and end it before it gets out of control.
Dr. Candice Seti
Because self-sabotage is rooted in our thinking and causes us to stand in our own way, it almost always involves distortions of the truth – a concept called cognitive distortions.
Dr. Candice Seti
Our inner beliefs trigger failure before it happens. They sabotage lasting change by canceling its possibility. We employ these beliefs as articles of faith to justify our inaction and then wish away the result. I call them belief triggers.
Marshal Goldsmith
I’m big on setting goals, but I also think that if you have too many lofty ambitions and set goals for everything, you can sabotage your efforts by overextending your brain.
Jean Chatzky
I often wonder if our greatest ambition is to destroy ourselves
Craig D. Lounsbrough
The status quo leads to self-destruction.
Emmanuel Macron
There’s something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.
Gerard Way
Sometimes we self-sabotage just when things seem to be going smoothly. Perhaps this is a way to express our fear about whether it is okay for us to have a better life. We are bound to feel anxious as we leave behind old notions of our unworthiness. The challenge is not to be fearless, but to develop strategies of acknowledging our fears and finding out how we can allay them.
Maureen Brady
Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.
John C. Maxwell
No matter how well-meaning your intention, doing too much is not always an act of love, but of sabotage.
Judith Orloff
A common type of self-saboteur is one who find the price of hope too high to pay for.
The School of Life
Your career success is directly proportional to your ability to overcome self-sabotage.
Debasish Mridha
Self-sabotage is rooted in our thinking. If you look back through all the different types of self-sabotage, they are all about the ways we think, the ways we integrate information, and the ways we process sensory information.
Dr. Candice Seti
We need to ascend beyond our own petty resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own “I’m not worthy mindset.
Steven Pressfield
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it. Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
Tennessee Williams
A long-standing history of ghosting partners and discarding relationships out of self-preservation… often backfires inn a cycle of more self-sabotage.
Annie Tanasugarn
We can all make powerful choices. We can all take back control by not blaming chance, fate, or anyone else for our outcomes. It’s within our ability to cause everything to change. Rather than letting past hurtful experiences sap our energy and sabotage our success, we can use them to fuel positive, constructive change.
Darren Hardy
I manufactured the stream of painful images because I was feeling good! Some part of me was afraid of enjoying positive energy for any extend period of time.
Gay Hendricks
Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. You really have to love to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
Managing your emotions doesn’t mean you don’t express yourself; it means you stop short of hurting others and sabotaging yourself.
Unknown
When your 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
It’s the fear of not being as god as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.
Chris Pine
Forgiveness is mental floss! Build the capacity to forgive slowly – start with little kind acts, otherwise you’ll sabotage yourself. When we forgive, we forgive the actor, not the action.
Stephen Levine
The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.
Cassia Leo
