Self-Imposed Limitations Quotes

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

Most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying.

Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.

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

I'm squandering invaluable gray matter by censoring myself.

No man is hurt but by himself.

We wanted the freedom to be playful, to experiment and do what we felt like doing, but we were heavily affected by the success that the first record gave us.

If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to kind of push myself through, to create something new. It's the torture that I give myself, the pain and the struggle that I go through.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.

Our beliefs are like the unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and what's impossible, what we can and can not do.

One who fears failure limits his activities.

The primary limitation in life is our low expectations for ourselves and others. When we expect minimum results, that's usually what we get.

We are really the victims of our own problems.

Excuses are the explanations we use for hanging on to behaviors we don't like about ourselves; they are self-defeating behaviors we don't know how to change. InExcuses Begone! I review 18 of the most common excuses people use, such as "I'm too busy, too old, too fat, too scared or it's going to take too long or be too difficult."

The only limit is the one you set yourself.

The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves.

As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work.

I'm in my own little world. I don't get invited into galas; I don't meet other people that I don't find interesting. I hang with my friends all the time, and we do exactly what we like.

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily -- you are the only one who can do it permanently.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Humans create their own boundaries, their own limitations. We say what is humanly possible, and what is not possible. Then just because we believe it, it becomes truth for us.

There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind