Quotes About Self-limiting

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

There are teachers who say that one of the main obstacles, spiritual obstacles, for westerners is a sense of unworthiness, a self-limiting sense of what's possible for them in a human life.

Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.

As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.

The only limitations you have are those limitations you accept.

Negative beliefs and complexes are obstacles to success and achievement and fulfilling goals

Half of the reason why people aren't able to succeed in life is because they hypnotize themselves into believing that they can't accomplish their goals, it's a mind game they play with themselves.

One handcuffs itself, with its vanity character; it breaks the best ties and contacts.

My disability was my justification! It was my excuse for failing to engage with the world.

If you're nervous you think: 'I don't want to make mistakes or give the ball away.' But you limit your own qualities then.

When I got into the league, guys didn't expect me to be as quick and fast as I was. I think it was myself holding myself back.

Most of the time, it's your thinking, not your talent, that holds you back.

All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,'--which is just another way of saying that you can't.

People froze you in place, Rebecca sometimes thought, trudging through the woods. More important, you froze yourself, often into a person in whom you truly had no interest.

Living in a story of a limited self—to any degree—is not love.

Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed our inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure. Unfortunately

In my life I've discovered that if I cling to the notion that something's not possible, I'm arguing in favor of limitation. And if I argue for my limitations, I get to keep them.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. Do you think, if you say the word "impossible" enough times, that difficult things will suddenly become easier for you?

There are no stronger fetters than those we forge for ourselves.

One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change.

When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it there's nothing there. It's just you holding yourself back.

People put off writing thinking they don't have the time or enough of an opinion to matter and that is crap. You are the only one standing in your own way, so get started.

It was simply because, as a doctor, I don't believe a drug should be taken for anything that is just uncomfortable or self-limiting.

Haw realized he had been held captive by his own fear.