Quotes About Self-imposed

People froze you in place. More important, you froze yourself, often into a person in whom you truly had no interest.

Was it pride that made me so extremely anxious to appear satisfied with my lot - or merely a just determination to bear my self-imposed burden alone, and preserve my best friend from the slightest participation in those sorrows from which she had striven so hard to save me? It might have been something of each, but I am sure the latter motive was predominant.

Don't make your journey through life harder by placing rules on yourself like, 'I can't get married till I get promoted to your dream job.'

England. When she entered her self-imposed exile in the colonies, she'd never expected to see it again. Now, she wondered if she was seeing it for the last time. An unexpected gift, perhaps. Or an unlooked-for cruelty.

You thought that we limit the choices of our students?' asked Ader. 'We do not, but it is a sad fact that the great majority limit themselves.

You thought that we limit the choices of our students… We do not, but it is a sad fact that the great majority limit themselves.

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.

Age is a limit we impose upon ourselves. You know, each time you Westerners celebrate your birthday you build another fence around your minds.

yet. I'm starting to think that if the Internet is the CB radio of the nineties, then the home computer is the trailer park of the soul, a dangerous tool in the hands of idiots. Eventually self-imposed fascism will destroy man as he convinces himself he doesn't have to think anymore. SEPTEMBER

Otra clave para establecer metas u objetivos es jugar. Deje vagar su mente con libertad. Las limitaciones que tenga usted son las que usted mismo ha creado.

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

Limitations do not exist actually unless and until you harbour them within your own thoughts. That is to say, you can only be limited by your own thoughts, (mark you). -Emeasoba George

What an idea, to want to be loved! They impose it upon themselves without success. After so many fruitless attempts, would they not be better off yielding to the obvious, admitting at last the substantiation of their disappointments?

The worst slavery is that which we voluntarily impose upon ourselves; and no chains are so cumbrous and galling as those which we are pleased to wear by way of grace and ornament.

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

Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.

we dream of peace and tranquility, the day when we no longer despair but our self-imposed angst cannot be avoided. we can't run. it won't go away. the noises i hear in my hell are very real and i'll continue to exist in an interested sort of anguish, looking for bloodstains on acid free sidewalks.

I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think is overly generous. I've got self-imposed term limits of six terms if I have the privilege to serve that long.

It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.

Most of the time, our limitations are self-imposed.

In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught.

The only walls which bind us and stop us achieving our hearts desires are the walls we build for ourselves

You cut yourself off from all sorts of experience because you tell yourself you re not 'that sort of person

Each member of this shadowy network resented the others, who were irritating reminders that nothing was more American, whatever that means, than fleeing the American, whatever that is, and that their soft version of self-imposed exile was just another of late empire's packaged tours.