Quotes About Self-limiting

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

Believe me, the stumbling block in your mind is worse than the stumbling block on your path. If you think you can't, you can't!!

Too many of us suffer from pervasive feelings of personal powerlessness. We have a terrible habit of obstructing our own paths forward, especially at the worst possible moments.

All of these are labels. All of them are fine. There is nothing wrong with any one of them, until you actually believe they're true. As soon as you believe that a label you've put on yourself is true, you've limited something that is literally limitless, you've limited who you are into nothing more than a thought.

People aren't helpless because they want to be helpless. People are helpless because it's all they know.

Whenever you define who you are, you limit yourself to what you may potentially be.

Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds

Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, how can I possibly change, this is my nature, I can't help it - that are just memes

Lack and limitation can only exist when we make room for them in our mind

Don't ever let others impose their self-limiting beliefs on to you. They don't have the courage and spirit that you do.

When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.

I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.

Most people are not going after what they want. Even some of the most serious goal seekers and goal setters, they're going after what they think they can get.

The ghetto is not where you live. The ghetto is inside your mind. And anyone who tells you that you can't get out of the ghettos of your own mind has no idea what they're talking about.

A lot of players get to a certain point they don't want to make mistakes. They just want everyone to see how great they are. That ends up being their downfall. You put a cap on yourself.

you parrot negative things and squawk about the things you don't love, you are literally jailing yourself, like a parrot in a cage. Every time you talk about what you don't love, you are adding another bar to the cage and you are locking yourself away from all the good.

The only prison we can be is prison of our mind.

Real power is ours already—when we stop giving it away. Real happiness is ours already—when we stop believing it's something we have to get from outside ourselves. Real peace is ours already—when we stop disturbing it. Real freedom is ours already—when we stop limiting ourselves.

The only shores you will never reach in life are those you have allowed yourself to believe, were too far.

I'm convinced the dreams we have for ourselves go unattained from a lack of permission more than any deficit in talent or desire. And I'm going to stress again that when I say "permission," I mean the permission we withhold or give ourselves to pursue those dreams.

As the saying goes: "Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them.

When you insist on your limitations, you are stuck with them.

There are many reasons why women's voices and visions are not more widely represented today in creative fields. Some of that exclusion is due to regular old misogyny, but it's also true that—all too often—women are the ones holding themselves back from participating in the first place. Holding back their ideas, holding back their contributions, holding back their leadership and their talents.

If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.