Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until…

There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend.…

— George Wald

I think you'll find that one would be self-defeating." Jace said lightly shoving his feet into his boots. "We are bound, he and I.…

— Cassandra Clare

“Hinduism—indeed, most eastern religions—tells us that striving, even striving for happiness, is self-defeating. The moment you try to improve yourself, you’ve failed. Game over.…

— Eric Weiner

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

— Peter Singer

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

— Max Eastman

I witnessed first-hand the self-defeating results of putting yourself under so much pressure to perform.

— Ananya Birla

That love at first sight should happen to me, was Life's most delicious revenge on a self-opinionated fool.

— Charles Boyer

The essence of practice is always the same: instead of falling prey to a chain reaction of revenge or self-hatred, we gradually learn to…

— Pema Chodron

Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“They make only progress. Instead of revenge, self progress is more safe to downgrade others including enemy.”

— Lecturer M K Bhutta Scholar

Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

— Carlos Salinas de Gortari

“Self-sacrifice is a power issue: inappropriate sacrifice is self-defeating and even destructive because it causes you to lose your power.”

— Stephanie Golden

Replace your self-defeating thoughts with self-supporting thoughts.

— Deepak Chopra

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

— Renata Adler

“At a certain point, an eating disorder ceases to be "about" any one thing. It stops being about your family, or your culture. Very…

— Marya Hornbacher