Quotes About Self-imposed

when you argue for your limitation, you get to keep them.

so many of us are leading limited lives not because we have to but because we think we have to.

No one pigeonholes us better than we ourselves do.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops' hearts, not just their heads.

When I do solo material I definitely tend to overthink it. I make a lot of rules for myself that are a little bit arbitrary and... it's just painful.

The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.

Your only limitation is the one which you set up in your own mind.

A maior parte dos fracassos reais se deve a limitações que os homens impõem a si mesmos em suas próprias mentes.

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

was not that the Irish were uncritical, just that they saw no value in self-imposed censorship. They could have said with Terence, "Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto" ("I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to

But beauty, too, is never perfected and for that very reason incites to vanity; for beauty works hard to achieve what it finds lacking in its own self-imposed ideal - yet another error, for beauty's secret actually consists in the attraction that comes from imperfection.

The only reason we don't have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can't have them. - Tony Robbins Everything

Sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another.

Enlightenment is the emancipation of man from a state of self-imposed tutelage... of incapacity to use his own intelligence without external guidance. Such a state of tutelage I call 'self-imposed' if it is due, not to lack of intelligence, but to lack of courage or determination to use one's own intelligence without the help of a leader. Sapere aude! Dare to use your own intelligence! This is the battle-cry of the Enlightenment.

The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Nothing is required for this enlightenment except freedom; and the freedom in question is the least harmful of all, namely, the freedom to use with and publicly in all matters.

Nonage [immaturity] is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know!

There are rules in advertising, and those rules are self-imposed by the client companies because they don't want their products to be seen as dishonest.

We live as in a walled garden now, walled by ourselves. We have been building this wall for some time, but now it's complete. That is new. And yet our surroundings remain as radiantly mysterious as ever.

They say love is all about raging hormones. For me, it's mind's way of breaking through its self-imposed limitations in order to set the eternally ecstatic soul free.

Sua única limitação é aquela que você impõe em sua própria mente".

The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.

those who live under a self-imposed pressure to be optimal in their enjoyment of things suffer a measure of distress.