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  • The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.

    Self   Students   Kind  
  • This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.

    John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.228, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness and trust-based relationships.

    Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.74, Mango Media Inc.
  • By using your heart as your compass, you can see more clearly which direction to go to stop self-defeating behavior. If you take just one mental or emotional habit that really bothers or drains you and apply heart intelligence to it, you'll see a noticeable difference in your life.

    Hate   Heart   Emotional  
  • Just get out of your own way.

    Love   Way   Paralysis  
    Osho Rajneesh (1999). “Lovers' Mysteries”, p.105, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
  • All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

    Self   Unseen   Weakness  
  • After a while, we start really believing these things are true. People who have had self-defeating behaviors for a long time, such as people who have been overweight since they were children or people with longtime addictions, actually believe there is no other alternative.

    Children   Believe   Self  
    Interview with Ellen Mahoney, www.drwaynedyer.com. September, 2009.
  • here's a payoff for everyone. The reason we hang on to self-defeating behaviors is because it's easier not to take responsibility.

    "A Conversation with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Ellen Mahoney, www.drwaynedyer.com. September 2009.
  • God's love is so perfect that He lovingly requires us to obey His commandments because He knows that only through obedience to His laws can we become perfect, as He is. For this reason, God's anger and His wrath are not a contradiction of His love but an evidence of His love. Every parent knows that you can love a child totally and completely while still being creatively angry and disappointed at that child's self-defeating behavior.

  • Excuses are the explanations we use for hanging on to behaviors we don't like about ourselves; they are self-defeating behaviors we don't know how to change. InExcuses Begone! I review 18 of the most common excuses people use, such as "I'm too busy, too old, too fat, too scared or it's going to take too long or be too difficult."

    Self   Long   People  
    "A Conversation with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Ellen Mahoney, www.drwaynedyer.com. September 2009.
  • You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting.

    Thinking   Self   Healthy  
    Albert Ellis (2010). “Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings, and Behaviors: New Directions for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy”, p.49, Prometheus Books
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