Quotes About Self-limiting

If he would only burst his self-imposed shackles, get out of himself, break away from the narrow bounds of his sickly, limited thought, he could be a power in the world.

There is one grand lie - that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe.

The only limits you have are the limits you believe.

I encouraged people to cultivate a way of believing that could overcome the conditioned belief in their limitations.

Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.

And if you say you're not creative, look at how much you're missing out on just because you've told yourself that. I think creativity is one of the greatest gifts that we're born with that some people don't cultivate, that they don't realize it could be applied to literally everything in their lives.

I was back in the prison of all of the things that hold me back, but I could see that the door was locked from the inside.

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.

There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.

Paramahansa Yogananda said, "Everyone has self-limiting idiosyncrasies. They were not put into your nature by God, but were created by you. These are what you must change—by remembering that these habits, peculiar to your nature, are nothing but manifestations of your own thoughts.

The limitations you have and the negative things that you internalize are given to you by the world. The thing that empowers you—the possibilities—come from within.

McKenna uses this story of a drowning woman to illustrate how stubbornly we can hold ourselves back.

Because of self-doubt, the fear of failure, or laziness, most people usually bite off way less than they can chew.

Human beings do not realise the extent to which their own sense of defeat prevents them from doing things they could do perfectly well.

If you think you're trapped, if you believe there's a lock on the door, you've bought into a lie. And it is the lie, nothing else, that is holding you back. Yet if you identify that lie, then you can remove it. You can replace it with the truth and be free. Your liberation is a simple two-step process: Remove the lie. Replace it with truth.

So many things are impossible only because we limit ourselves to what others tell us we are capable of.

Very often, the only obstacles in our path are the ones we place there in our own minds.

Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place.

You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don't do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings while undercutting your finest, most productive ones.

The cruelest prison of all is the prison of the mind.

When somebody says I wanted to be an astronaut my question is 'Did you apply?' And most people say no. And to me that's a self-elimination.

It's one thing to talk about leaving behind a restrictive mindset. It's another to stop being so restrictive.

We have ideas about ourselves that we use as limitations or resistance to changing. We are: Too old. Too young. Too fat. Too thin. Too short. Too tall. Too lazy. Too strong. Too weak. Too dumb. Too smart. Too poor. Too worthless. Too frivolous. Too serious. Too stuck. Maybe it's just all too much.

By talking others out of their dreams, critical people excuse themselves for staying in their comfort zones.