Quotes About Self-imposed

The only limits we have are the ones we give ourselves.

It was more like a form of claustrophobia -- a dread of exchanging the freedom of her own self-imposed routine for the inescapable burden of somebody else's.

The only limits you have are the ones you put on yourself

Fear is a self-imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be.

Awakenings are always terrifying as they force you to realize your past has been lived in confinement, the most disturbing part is when you recognize that the shackle holding you down are largely once you have placed upon yourself, the prison is self constructed

we are prisoners of our own lives, until we find the courage to break free from the prison that we created ourselves.

Fear is a self-imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with the weapons of faith and love.

Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.

Quiet is peace. Tranquillity. Quiet is turning down the VOLUME knob on life. Silence is pushing the OFF button. Shutting it down. All of it. Sohrab's silence wasn't the self-imposed silence of those with convictions, of protesters who seek to speak their cause by not speaking at all. It was the silence of one who has taken cover in a dark place, curled up all the edges and tucked them under.

themselves. They work towards unattainable goals and assume too much responsibility. They try to perform several tasks correctly and to the same high standard. When told that their expectations are too high, they reply that they wouldn't be doing their job properly if they didn't meet those expectations. And since they've convinced themselves that they should be able to meet them, their ears are closed to advice.

Unsent letters carry a kind of cruelty. A letter is written as a space shared by two people; by not sending it, its writer claims the power to include and exclude the recipient simultaneously. Out of cowardice or control an act is performed in the name of caring or discretion. Unsent letters should never be written. But what difference is there between an unsent and an unwritten letter? The truth is already there. Self-imposed silence speaks, too, though not to communicate but to punish.

Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister current is to break the rules we rigidly establish for ourselves." -Zeena Schreck for "Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity," University of Stockholm, Malin Fitger 2004

el cerebro humano puede hacer mucho más de lo que nadie se imaginaba. En contra de lo que afirman algunas creencias anticuadas, sus limitaciones las imponemos nosotros, no las deficiencias físicas.

The more I accomplish, the more pressure I put on myself.

We all make our limits. The thought slid up surprisingly from somewhere. And we set them further out than we have any right.

The purpose of life is to grow—materially, intellectually and emotionally. Unfortunately, the Kauravas focus only on material growth. By embracing Krishna, the Pandavas are offered intellectual and emotional growth, besides material growth, that has the power to help them break their own self-imposed limitations.

Excuses are a list of self imposed obstacles that prevent you from having a better life.

You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.

Within the confines of the great, universal prison, I had made for myself a smaller prison, a prison made to order. I had carved out for myself a little niche in which I could live. It was tiny, I had no doubt about that point. But at least it was made to measure, to my measure. A little niche in a prison that kept me from seeing the prison. A prison without work? Was I bored? Was I resigned? Tired, no doubt.

Remember, nothing can stop a person who refuses to be stopped. Most people don't really fail, they simply give up trying. And most of the limitations that hold you back from your dreams are self-imposed. So shed the shackles of "tiny thinking," have the bravery to dream big for a change and accept that failure is not an option for you.

Los únicos límites son aquellos que tú mismo te pones.» Cuando te atreves a salir de tu círculo de comodidad y explorar lo desconocido, empiezas a liberar tu verdadero potencial humano.

In this early period, Rockefeller was a chronic worrier who labored under a great deal of self-imposed stress.

Your only limitations are those that you impose upon yourself

There always will be limits to growth. They can be self-imposed. If they aren't, they will be system-imposed.