Best Self Defeating Quotes
53 Self Defeating quotes by 45 unique authors
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Replace your self-defeating thoughts with self-supporting thoughts.
— Deepak Chopra
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The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.
— Carol S. Dweck
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There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.
— Max Eastman
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Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.
— P. Chidambaram
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When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.
— Henry Flynt
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You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.
— Bill Keller
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Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating.
— Peter Shepherd
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I feel that non-violence is really the only way that we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends up creating many…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of…
— Sharon Salzberg
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There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It…
— George Wald
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Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a…
— Mark Steyn
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All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness…
— Aldo Leopold
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Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left.
— Chris Bradford
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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 too…
— Rachel Cohn
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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. Cut…
— Cassandra Clare
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In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I hope a start at getting some oil out of the enormous Alaska field isn't indefinitely mired in a bureaucratic morass as a result of…
— Malcolm Forbes
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Sure, losing an election hurts, but I've experienced worse. And at an age when every day is precious, brooding over what might have been is…
— Bob Dole
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Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it…
— Albert Ellis
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Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better…
— Evgeny Morozov
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Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
— Camille Paglia
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Hostility toward Iran may not be the silliest of all American foreign policies - that would probably be the continuing trade embargo of Cuba -…
— Stephen Kinzer
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It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
— Renata Adler
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I think women have a hard time not apologizing their way into negotiations. We tend to back in to these conversations in a self-deprecating and…
— Mika Brzezinski
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