Destructive Quotes

The most self-destructive thought that any person can have is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his or her life. That’s when, ‘Why me?’ becomes a theme song.

To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

Listenin to nothin, takin no suggestions, All destructive criticisms that can't improve on perfection.

If a steaming hot potato fell in your hands you would get it off you as soon as you could. Do the same with negative destructive thoughts- just release them as fast as you can.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

Currency warfare is the most destructive form of economic warfare.

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.

There is no disease so destructive as lust.

People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.

You know what the most destructive force in the universe is? Regret.

Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.

Learning to spot narcissists and deal with their destructive behavior can save you the world of hurt that awaits anyone who mistakes the near enemy for a friend.

Being overly sensitive to rejection can become a destructive virus.

Whites already know blacks are stupid, violent, destructive apelike creatures. That is why Whites move away from them -- always.

Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far beyond the reach of man's destructive tendencies.

Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.

There's a world of difference between a strong ego, which is essential, and a large ego-which can be destructive.

A man with a weak Masculine is especially prone to despise and fear these qualities and may attempt to suppress the more destructive elements of the Feminine force in his partner.

We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions--some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive--to fill the emptiness.

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive.

There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.

There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it. Only try to keep yourself clear and don't allow that destructive force to spoil something that to you is simple, natural, and beautiful.

You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things.

We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

The most destructive criticism is indifference.

With every pill we have prescribed for us we should also be given a creative prayer, a suggested way to correct our destructive patterns of thought.

I don't understand why Christians are taking such a bashing...and why do we glorify people that do destructive things?

For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.

Worry is one of the most destructive scourges of mankind.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.

As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study Breaking Free, He taught me to look for a common denominator among the things that triggered my destructive habits.

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.

But we moderns are impatient and destructive.

A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.

Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in existing markets is to create and own new ones.

But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity

Somehow don't be bored, but if you must, use it in action. Use its destructive potential.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.