Top 1200 My Own Worst Enemy Quotes & Sayings

Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

Get out of your own way. Often, we're our own worst enemy when working towards our goals.

When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.

We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar.

Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.

When I look back, I don't have regrets. In the moment I am really, really hard on myself, I'm definitely my own worst critic and can be my own worst enemy, and I'm trying very hard not to be that.

I get in my own head, and at the end of the day, I'm my biggest critic, and I'm my worst enemy, too.

Man is his own worst enemy.

The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.

We're our own worst enemy. You doubt yourself more than anybody else ever will. If you can get past that, you can be successful.

If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.

When it comes to investing, you are your own worst enemy.

Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth. Honestly, there are enough bad people out there in the world - you don't need to be your own worst enemy.

Be indifferent if you lose your short term clients, remember they are your own worst enemy

The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.

A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.

The thing you have to be on guard against, more than anything, is self-sabotage. You have to make sure you're not your own worst enemy.

Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.

Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy!

I'm my own worst enemy sometimes when I pick projects.

Do the things you think you cannot do. Do all the good you can, by all the means available, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, all the times you can, for as long as ever you can. Our own feelings of helplessness are our own worst enemy.

Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.

wit is often its own worst enemy.

I'm my own worst enemy.

I think I'm my own worst enemy.

I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy, and I don't even have a worst enemy.

Self-mastery is the challenge of transforming yourself from own worst enemy into your greatest ally.

Who’s gonna make you happy when you’re your own worst enemy?

I was my own worst enemy in my debut. Not one player tested my mechanics.

Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.

People are often very limiting to themselves and can be their own worst enemy.

In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy.

When I was younger and inexperienced, I was a very animated pitcher. I pitched with a lot of adrenaline. I was my own worst enemy when things weren't gong well.

The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the enemy of Jew is not Arab, the enemy of youth is not the old, the enemy of hip is not redneck, the enemy of Chicano is not gringo and the enemy of women is not men. We all have the same enemy. The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind. The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. Sometimes you are your own worst enemy.

I think my worst enemy was myself. It's like I've been in my own way more than anybody else has been.

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.

You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.

The women's movement. . . has proved women's own worst enemy.

Looking back, I sometimes wish I had done things differently. But if I had, I'm not sure that I wouldn't have proven to be my own worst enemy.

Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.

I'm my own worst enemy and I know that.

Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces, the next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field, and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities.

As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves.

Women are women's own worst enemy. They rip each other apart.

Every man is his own worst enemy

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

I need to stay busy. Otherwise, I am like so many people, alone with my thoughts, and I can be my own worst enemy.

I'm my own worst enemy. I like to eat, and when people tell me to do something I do the opposite.

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

Sometimes our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn't logical.

The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is loving myself 100%. And that's still a battle. I love myself, but sometimes you can be your own worst enemy. And I think I've been my worst enemy in life, because others haven't been able to do anything to me unless I allowed them to do it.

I think one important thing that happens in the studio is accepting yourself as the enemy and painting from that point of view. So instead of pointing the finger outward and passing judgment, instead, you start with yourself as your own worst enemy.

By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes.

Most of us talk ourselves out of our own ideas, because we're our own worst enemy.

Yes, the investor is often his own worst enemy. Yes, the marketing colossus known as the mutual fund industry provides the weaponry which enables investors to indulge their suicidal instincts. No, the fund industry was hardly an innocent bystander in the market boom and the subsequent carnage. "We have met the enemy and he is us"... all of us.