Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes

Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.

No man is hurt but by himself.

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

One never perishes through anybody but oneself.

No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves.

If you recognize that all of your inner hurts are caused by your own wrong actions or your own wrong reactions or your own wrong inaction, then you will stop hurting yourself.

Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.

We are really the victims of our own problems.

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

The only person I have hurt is myself.

The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

No one can hurt me - that's my job.

I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.

I suppose I’m the one responsible for destroying myself.