80 Sabotaging Quotes
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Famous Sabotaging Quotes
Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE. — Sid Vicious
We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing. — W. Edwards Deming
Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. — Ravi Zacharias
The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions — Miyamoto Musashi
We often give our enemies the means to our own destruction. — Aesop
Do the unexpected, attack the unprepared. — Zhuge Liang
To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies. — Cardinal Richelieu
When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It's an extremely powerful weapon. — Cesar Chavez
Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you. — Howard Hughes
Influence without control is a weapon of mass destruction. — Isaac Mashman
Attack the enemy's strategy. — Sun Tzu
One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work — Dean Smith
We are going to wreak havoc on our opponents' psyche and their plan of attack. — Shaka
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. — Robert Louis Stevenson
A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective. — Sun Tzu
Short Sabotaging Quotes
- Be careful that you don’t spit on your own face. — Filipino Proverbs
- Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
- The biggest enemy of a person is themselves. — Turkish Proverbs
- Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage. — Alyce Cornyn-Selby
- Inaction is a crime against your future self. — Tom Bilyeu
- Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them. — Mark Goulston
- You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love. — Athol Fugard
- Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior. — Mark Victor Hansen
- Self-doubt does more to sabotage individual potential than all external limitations put together. — Brian Tracy
- All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage. — Thorstein Veblen
Self Sabotage Quotes
I have come to the conclusion that the greatest obstacle to getting what we really want in life is not the other party, as difficult as he or she can be. The biggest obstacle is actually ourselves. — William Ury
Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way. — Charles Eisenstein
There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it. — Gerard Way
Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves. — Marianne Williamson
Our biggest enemy is our own self-doubt. We really can achieve extraordinary things in our lives. But we sabotage our greatness because of our fear — Robin Sharma
Self-sabotage is when we say we want something and then go about making sure it doesn't happen. — Alyce Cornyn-Selby
Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you. — Armand DiMele
People ask, why hasn't that person busted out? Almost always, at the end of it, consciously or subconsciously, it hasn't happened because that person has chosen for it to not happen. Either walking away, because it wasn't the life they wanted, or through self-sabotaging. — Chris Gethard
The rewards are profound. Shadow-work enables us to alter our self-sabotaging behavior so that we can achieve a more self-directed life. — Connie Zweig
A critical key to achieving success lies in your ability to activate your potential to create the results you seek... start by being aware of your self-sabotaging patterns. — Lauren Mackler
People Writing About Sabotaging
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Sun Tzu |
454 | 6304 |
 Sid Vicious |
17 | 420 |
 W. Edwards Deming |
245 | 3622 |
 Ravi Zacharias |
210 | 3781 |
 Miyamoto Musashi |
133 | 5784 |
 Aesop |
259 | 2777 |
More Sabotaging Quotes
The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with sabotaging the electoral process. — Walter Cronkite
Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane. — Eckhart Tolle
The executions of agents, partisans, saboteurs, suspicious people, indulging in espionage and sabotage, and those who were of a detrimental effect to the German Army, were, in my opinion, completely in accordance with the Hague Convention. — Paul Blobel
I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them. — Jack White
I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites. — Nelson Mandela
Micromanaging erodes people's confidence, making them overly dependennt on their leaders. Well-meaning leaders inadvertently sabotage their teams by rushing to the rescue and offering too much help. A leader needs to balance assistance with wu wei, backing off long enough to let people learn from their mistakes and develop competence. — Diane Dreher
What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her 'beauty' his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive. — Naomi Wolf
We sabotage our creative possibilities because the world revealed by our imagination may not fit well with the life we have taken so much trouble to construct over the years. Faced with the pain of that distance, the distance between desire and reality, we turn just for a moment and quickly busy ourselves. — David Whyte
It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me. — Chris Pine
Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others. — Epictetus
There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible. — Auberon Waugh
Complaining becomes a habit. Focusing on the negative also becomes a habit. It’s one of the most detrimental habits you can possibly have. It can negatively impact you socially, affecting your personal happiness, but it can also subconsciously sabotage your money and success. — T. Harv Eker
I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts. — Michael Buble
If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage. — Katharine Graham
Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage. — C. S. Lewis
The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership, or to subvert relationships within the organization. — Dan B. Allender
Democratic Party elites have been caught red-handed, sabotaging a grassroots campaign that tried to bring huge numbers of young people, independents and non-voters into their party. Instead, they have shown exactly why America needs a new major party, a truly democratic party for the people. — Jill Stein
For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it. — Michael Parkinson
Netanyahu is partnering up with Boehner to kick Obama in the teeth and sabotage one of the president's top diplomatic priorities. He is essentially telling American Jews to get lost: 'I have no regard for the president you support and no regard for your own political needs and desires.' — David Corn
Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed out inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure. — Gay Hendricks
I'm doing everything I can to sabotage my career. It's a little thing called "fear of success". — Jon Stewart
What is called economic progress is the joint effect of the activities of the three progressive groups-or classes-of the savers, the scientist-inventors, and the entrepreneurs, operating in a market economy as far as it is not sabotaged by the endeavors of the nonprogressive majority of the routinists and the public policies supported by them. — Ludwig von Mises
I was completely broke, so I started saying yes to everything. I said yes to a woman who approached me about shooting the Dracula ballet, even though I felt like I was probably going to sabotage it. — Guy Maddin
The Statist deflects public scorn for the consequences of his own central planning by blaming the very industry he is sabotaging for supply dislocations and price hikes. — Mark Levin
Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we’re thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don’t show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin’, no matter what. — Steven Pressfield
Sabotage is like, so satisfying. — Trina
For the ANC to cry 'sabotage' the night before crucial local government elections shows just how desperate they are to disguise their incompetence and mismanagement. — Helen Zille
For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to "help"-out of impatience or solicitude-they sabotage important learning. Among other things, the child is unlikely to discover the advantages of perseverance and self-discipline. — Nathaniel Branden
don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure! — Terry McMillan
Obviously, as an adult I realize this girl-on-girl sabotage is the third worst kind of female behavior, right behind saying "like" all the time and leaving your baby in a dumpster. — Tina Fey
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