Best Self Defeating Quotes

53 Self Defeating quotes by 45 unique authors

Replace your self-defeating thoughts with self-supporting thoughts. — Deepak Chopra
The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn. — Carol S. Dweck
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. — Max Eastman
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
When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating. — Henry Flynt
You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating. — Bill Keller
Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating. — Peter Shepherd
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.
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
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
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
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
Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left. — Chris Bradford
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating. — Camille Paglia
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
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. — Renata Adler
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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