Self Defeating Quotes
53 quotes by 45 authors
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There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms…
— James Buchan
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Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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It is wrong, and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws that we have seen...in…
— William J. Clinton
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In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for…
— William J. Clinton
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Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings of remorse and regret and…
— Marianne Williamson
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When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up…
— Aldous Huxley
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I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to…
— Jules Feiffer
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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
— Renata Adler
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All we have to do is to receive what we are given...We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to…
— Vernon Howard
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...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Life is never boring but some people choose to be bored. The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a…
— Wayne Dyer
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Gun control advocates need to realize that passing laws that honest gun owners will not obey is a self-defeating strategy. Gun owners are not about…
— J. Neil Schulman
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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
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A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point…
— Saul Alinsky
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Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new…
— Stephen Covey
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
— Vernon Howard
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
— Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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Unfortunately for ethical egoism, the claim that we will all be better off if every one of us does what is in his or her…
— Peter Singer
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Imagine the word CANCEL being a huge rubber stamp in your mind. Stamp CANCEL on any self-defeating image you place in your head, and begin…
— Wayne Dyer
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Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.
— Eric Voegelin
Who Wrote These Self Defeating Quotes
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