Self Defeating Quotes

53 quotes by 45 authors

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
Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive. — Gordon B. Hinckley
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
...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
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
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
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
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
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
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied. — Vernon Howard
Isolation is a self-defeating dream. — Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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
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
Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare. — Eric Voegelin

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