Self-Defeating Quotes

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
Vernon Howard

Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.
Michael Landon

Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
Renata Adler

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
George Wald

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.
Henry Flynt