No man is hurt but by himself.
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.
Troubles hurt the most when they prove self-inflicted.
Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.
To be honest, most of my troubles - bankruptcy, drinking, gambling - were self-inflicted.
That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.
The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance.
You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
AIDS is a judgment we have brought upon ourselves.
Ours is a time of anxiety because we have willed it to be so. Our anxiety is not imposed on us by force from outside. We impose it on our world and upon one another from within ourselves.
I had the longest awkward phase. I had braces for 3 years; I cut my own bangs too far back and they looked like a bowl cut, and I broke my nose twice.
So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.
When we weren't being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted disaster.
You are creating your own hell.
SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense
This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.
A lot of problems we are facing, essentially, man made problem. Own creation. Not due to lack of intelligence.
Tiger Woods has been unlucky with his body. I don't know whether some of it is self-induced or some of it is just unlucky. But we never know what happens with guys.
He just hit himself in the dinger with a rubber.
The Republican Party is in a predicament that it made itself. It made its own bed, and now they don't want to lay in it.
What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself.
They build their own Hells.
I am the perpetrator of my suffering - but only all of it.
I burned my own damn finger pokin' someone else's fire
