Self-Limiting Quotes

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary.

I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.

We can do only what we think we can do. We can be only what we think we can be. We can have only what we think we can have. What we do, what we are, what we have, all depend upon what we think.

People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve.

Your capability is constant, but how much of it you use depends upon the identity you have for yourself.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

You'll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

One of the principles we teach in our programs is "If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon." Poor people don't even shoot for the ceiling in their house, and then they wonder why they're not successful.

If you think your obstacles are too big, they will be. Don’t set limits on your life with your thinking.

Love is love, and a lot of times, people might be in the situation they're in because they put barriers up. Like, some people only want to date a model or an actor or an athlete. You're only limiting yourself. Open up to what's out there because God made us all.

People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubts

I think very early on in life we all learn what we're good at and what we're not good at, and we stay where it's safe.

You know, if a drug has anything going for it at all, it should be self-limiting. It should tell you when you've had enough. Acid and peyote were that way for me.

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

From time to time I might push a little bit too hard and I have got to be a bit more careful.

If you're not perfectly conscious of yourself, that self can be tyrannical; in relationship to others, anyone can become a tyrant. That's why no one can be a Superman. You have to go beyond yourself with a 'third eye' - self-awareness - because the one thing you cannot flee is yourself.

I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.

If you tell yourself you can't, you're right.

I'm very much in a mindset that I take myself out of anything that I'm not involved in.

If you think something is impossible, then it certainly is... for you.

The only person holding you back is you.

The only thing that's holding you back, is the way you're thinking.

You don't have to limit yourself or feel that you've been limited by an act of cruelty.

People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty - even when it limits them.