Self Destructive Quotes
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I know what it is to want something that could destroy you.
— Nenia Campbell
The more we explore, understand, and even come to appreciate our own self-destructive mental attitudes, the more control we gain over our minds.
— Karuna Cayton
The reason that poor people wind up coping in ways that seem pointlessly self-destructive is that all the constructive stuff costs money. I
— Linda Tirado
If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.
— Viggo Mortensen
Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.
— Helen Clark MacInnes
Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.
— Paulo Coelho
You hear that rape victims avoid sex afterwards. But it's actually just as common for some victims to become promiscuous in self-destructive ways.
— Jon Krakauer
Making our goal anything other than peace is emotionally self-destructive.
— Marianne Williamson
The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.
— Patti Smith
Diets don't really work & can be destructive, but if you get healthy overall (mind, body, spirit) then your weight balances naturally.
— Jay Woodman
It would be a sin to help you destroy yourself.
— Leo Tolstoy
Doubt, not self-reflection, comes from a destructive energy, and when it rears its head, I talk to it like a lunatic.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.
— Chris O'Dowd
There is a self-destructive program running in the consciousness of humanity, and we must write a new program.
— Bryant McGill
Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!
— John Keats
God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits.
— Beth Moore
Your thought should be creative and not destructive; it should be full of hope and faith for a more excellent future.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
I am here for readers to see parts of themselves during my dark days, but also for a better way of living in my triumphs and gained wisdom.
— Theia Mey
We must take the money out of politics, and end psychopathic, self-destructive government and corporate madness.
— Bryant McGill
The war against terror is not really about terror. It's about a superpower's self-destructive impulse toward supremacy, stranglehold, global hemegony.
— Arundhati Roy
You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things.
— Penn Jillette
No one in the group was really growing up besides me, which is pretty weird 'cause there was no one in that group more self-destructive than I was.
— Dee Dee Ramone
Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.
— Brene Brown
Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.
— Daniel Radcliffe
I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest.
— George Michael
Europe is acting in a very self-destructive manner, but is doing so because it's trying to be loyal to the United States.
— Michael Hudson
but, like an alcoholic or a fan of the Dave Matthews Band, he ultimately couldn't control his self-destructive addiction.
— Nick Offerman
The problem with alienating, self-destructive behavior is people get it into their heads it's a cry for help. It wasn't.
— Courtney Summers
Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.
— Nikola Tesla
I don't have anyone curbing my instincts, doing anything destructive to my self opinion.
— Louise Post
It was time to bring out the world destructive weapons. It was now time to hit him where it would do the biggest damage, his pride.
— Ottilie Weber
The paper standard is self-destructive.
— Hans F. Sennholz
Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.
— Sebastian Horsley
Kindness that allows barriers to one's relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive.
— Max Anders
Self-Evaluation is healthy and constructive. Denial and self-delusion is DESTRUCTIVE.
— Michelle Cook-Hall
It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.
— Ariel Rechtshaid
Over Thinking can be extremely destructive, and may often be a sign of low confidence or low self-esteem.
— Barbara Gain
I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
— Florence Welch
The artist who makes himself accessible is self-destructive.
— Howard Barker
I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
— Dan Harmon
We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.
— Michael Crichton
No Blame: The most liberating and empowering day of my life was the day I freed myself from my own self-destructive nonsense.
— Steve Maraboli
A measure of narcissism is healthy. But out of balance, what was once appropriate self-confidence becomes grandiose, pathological, and destructive.
— Jill Alexander Essbaum
Though there can be other causes, most self-destructive behavior is the result of the fact that we have two minds that don't communicate very well.
— Richard O'Connor
When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.
— Wayne Dyer
And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.
— Zoe Kazan
I was not self-destructive, though I almost destroyed myself. In the end, I turned away from stand-up with a tired swivel of my head.
— Steve Martin
The atomic bomb was created with the destruction of men in mind
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
There is a known correlation between denial of one's sexuality and a propensity to self-destructive behaviour.
— Peter Tatchell
The Bible's emphasis on right relationships is a challenge to our culture's destructive focus on the self
— Guy Brandon
I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.
— Sam Taylor-Wood
It was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind?
— Rachel Vincent
It's very hard to be good. It is self-destructive thinking to think that there is too much good.
— Henry Blodget
All are at war with the one who wars against self.
— E'yen A. Gardner
It's counterproductive and self-destructive to bear grudges with people that are negative.
— Carl Froch
Typical me
hurricane that leaves nothing but destruction. — Katie McGarry
hurricane that leaves nothing but destruction. — Katie McGarry
We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.
— David Lee Roth
Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars
— Curtis LeMay
It's a bomb. Just like you.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.
— Richard Paul Evans
I only write about stuff that's happened to me.. stuff I can't get past personally. Luckily, I'm quite self-destructive.
— Amy Winehouse
I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.
— Whitney Houston
The selfishness of humanity is rooted in the self-destructive nature of man through sin. Romans 6:23
— Felix Wantang
Her self lagged behind her anger, like a mother picking up after a destructive child.
— Matthew De Abaitua
I don't want to point out her flaws, but if I see her going on a self-destructive path, isn't it up to me as her friend to stop her?
— Simone Elkeles
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
— Millicent Fenwick
Self-destruction is an art; cursed are the exponents.
— Anurag Shourie
There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.
— Axl Rose
There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle.
— Terrence Howard
It becomes increasingly clear that we won't be free of self-destructive patterns unless we develop a compassionate understanding of what they are.
— Pema Chodron
How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?
— David Sheff
I was always drawn to the self-destructive kind of way. I thought there was something beautiful about it; I don't know why.
— Tove Lo
Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don't be your own worst enemy!
— Bryant McGill
Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit.
— Paul Carus
Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.
— Sky Ferreira
People in pain can be very self-destructive. And sometimes they pull in the people who are close to them, often without realizing.
— Sara Barnard