Self Defeat Quotes

“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.”
― Jordan Belfort

“Understand that when the beast within you

succeeds again in paralyzing into unending

incompletion whatever you again had the temerity to
try to make

its triumph is made sweeter by confirmation of its

rectitude. It knows that it alone
knows you.”
― Frank Bidart, Star Dust

“It is what it is because you let it be so.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“A life out of balance is a person that doesn’t believe happiness can be achieved now, or in the future. It is as fleeting as the wind.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“An excuse is the most expensive brand of self defeat you will ever purchase.”
― Johnnie Dent Jr.

“Watching someone you love go through difficult times is like being trapped in your own body but paralyzed. You want to yell at them, scream, help them, but your body won’t move, and you know that no matter how hard you try, in the end, the path is theirs to choose. You can’t choose for them. What a terrifying concept, especially considering we hardly see every option when we’re stuck in our own self-defeat.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Toxic

“Oftentimes I have hated in self-defense; but if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we’ve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The hole that I’m in wasn’t a hole until I dug it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Your self-defense becomes a self-defeat when you are doing it for selfish reasons! It's not about you and your pocket alone; let it be for the collective joy of your entire neighbourhood and beyond!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Nothing else than the worst and abysmal self-defeat, which elucidates that, one fetches and embraces itself to become the victim of own ego, vanity, and jealousy.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Ultimately surrendering to God is the natural outcome of the reality that we had defeated ourselves by our choice to deny Him in the first place.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The worst battles occur within us where we are the enemy and the enemy.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Unless you are realistic, your quest for self esteem will end up in self defeat.”
― Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor