I never married because I was too easily boref. It's an…

Listen to me: I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be…

— Rachel Cohn

Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even…

— Evgeny Morozov

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

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

— Bill Keller

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

— Chris Hadfield

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

— Eric Voegelin

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

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

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

— Peter Singer

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

— Renata Adler

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

“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