Quotes About Limiting Yourself

#1. Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.

Eckhart Tolle

#2. When you judge you are limiting yourself, you are limiting your reach.

Jorge Gw

#3. I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways.

Mackenzie Davis

#4. When you're just using words, you're limiting yourself to everyday casual speak. As soon as you start to sing, you can unlock the stuff that's underneath.

Jeremy Jordan

#5. The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point - but you are limiting yourself before even starting.

Confucius

#6. The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.

Nate Silver

#7. I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.

Charlotte Eriksson

#8. What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates your duty. And by writing about black people, you are not limiting yourself. The experiences of African-Americans are as wide open as God's closet.

August Wilson

#9. Are you a clairvoyant? A fortune-teller? If not, why anticipate the worst for yourself? Past does not equal the future, so why not think big and positive?

Maddy Malhotra

#10. Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs about who they are and what they can do, they never take actions that could make their dream a reality

Tony Robbins

#11. The debate over Social Security should not be about how much we can cut from the program in order to balance the federal budget. The debate over Social Security should not be about raising the retirement age or limiting benefits. The debate over Social Security should be about retirement security.

Sherrod Brown

#12. Stop walking with a 'calendar'. It's capable of ruining your fate,
by showing you the date & limiting your courage, by reminding you of your age.

Sujit Lalwani

#13. We speak about losing our minds as if it is a bad thing. I say, lose your mind. Do it purposefully. Find out who you really are beyond your thoughts and beliefs. Lose your mind, find your soul.

Vironika Tugaleva

#14. We permit Limitations to Limit us, instead of Limiting our Limitations.-RVM

R.v.m.

#15. There are those who will resent you for not being confined by their limitations.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#16. To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively.

Ellen Lupton

#17. Pretending that we know more than we really do is one big reason we're not as successful as we should be. It's probably the worst self-limiting behavior that we have.

Dan Waldschmidt

#18. This is a limiting factor in the way we have been able to help, ... We need to determine to what extent does an 'emergency declaration' go.

Richard Burr

#19. Impossible is a perception based upon a limiting mental illusion. Possible is the belief in the potential of unseen possibility,

Tony Dovale

#20. You must keep a vigilant watch for your self-limiting assumptions.

Isaac Lidsky

#21. I think you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradigm that is looks-based, if you're an actor, then it can be empowering in some ways, and it can be really limiting in some ways in terms of time and longevity.

Bellamy Young

#22. Well, there's the type of person who says there are certain types of people and then tries to be one type or the other. And then there are others who say bananas to the whole concept of types and won't allow themselves to be filed neatly away under some sort of ridiculously limiting category.

Matthew Quick

#23. Limiting beliefs are a virus of the mind. They decline your success and happiness.

Maddy Malhotra

#24. Belittling leaders who are limiting repel people easily. They can't tap into the unlimited potential of their people. They can't take them to the next level...

Assegid Habtewold

#25. In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be.

Jean Baker Miller

#26. Limiting beliefs and thoughts are created in the mind. These mental blocks must be cleared to be happy. Only then the loving wisdom of the soul will open.

Hina Hashmi

#27. I can pretty much guarantee that every time you tearfully ask yourself the question, "WTF is my problem?!" the answer lies in some lame, limiting, and false subconscious belief that you've been dragging around without even realizing

Jen Sincero

#28. Self-critical thoughts and detrimental predictions about yourself have a huge impact on our mood/feelings. It affects our attitude, decisions and behavior. They ensure our self-esteem stays low and can create physical illnesses.

Maddy Malhotra

#29. Are you a fortune-teller? A clairvoyant? If not, why anticipate the worst for yourself? We predict events will turn out in a negative way because our self-beliefs are limiting.

Maddy Malhotra

#30. Self-awareness is one of the rarest of human commodities. I don't mean self-consciousn ess where you're limiting and evaluating yourself. I mean being aware of your own patterns.

Tony Robbins

#31. The most powerful tool you have is your mind, which is a gift from God. Use it to question your limiting beliefs, use it to understand yourself, and use it to love yourself the way a loving mother loves her child.

Cynthia Belmer

#32. When your mind is wandering about elsewhere you have no chance to express yourself. But if you limit your activity to what you can do just now, in this moment, then you can express fully your true nature, which is the universal Buddha nature.

Shunryu Suzuki

#33. Nothing restricts your success more than your limiting self-beliefs and fears.

Maddy Malhotra

#34. You don't know who you are; you just know what they've told you about who you are!

Maddy Malhotra

#35. The more you stay with and/or complain about a toxic person, the more you're merely delaying doing the important inner work you need to do - to heal your wounds, expand your limiting beliefs, and show yourself far more love and respect.

Karen Salmansohn

#36. I have a preference for writing that deals with domestic issues; even in visual art, I like work that focuses on very small aspects of human life. I like movies that have a very narrow focus. I can see how it might be viewed as limiting, but I don't experience it that way.

Carol Windley

#37. By not forgiving yourself you are limiting your ability to give to others.

Danielle Joworski

#38. It's nice to have something you think separates you from the mainstream and gives you perspective on that, but it can become very limiting at the same time if it's something you use to artificially define yourself.

Dale Peck

#39. God is full of love, joy and peace. Every religion has said that God is within us or we are a part of God so why do we think small?
Why do we have limiting beliefs about our success? Why do we not love ourselves? Why do we have fears? Isn't thinking negative/small a sin then?

Maddy Malhotra

#40. It's a different thing to just be a voice. It's liberating, on one hand, because you get to show up in sweatpants and with Doritos on your fingers, but on the other hand, it's limiting because it's just your voice.

Adrian Pasdar

#41. The more people expect from government, the more biased they become against limiting government power.

James Bovard

#42. I liked you better when you had vordo." "You're not suggesting we do it in this tiny closet with two men watching television in the next room, are you?" "It'd be limiting," Ranger said, "but at least you wouldn't have your ass on the horn.

Janet Evanovich

#43. The best defense against these people is to educate parents and children of the dangers that come along with the Internet and by limiting access to certain sites during the school day.

Mike Fitzpatrick

#44. Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding INbreeding ... No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.

Ezra Pound

#45. The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere.

Cory Booker

#46. When I meet girls, I pray that they don't know who I am. But I know that's limiting myself quite a lot.

Douglas Booth

#47. Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting.

William P. Leahy

#48. Do the uncomfortable. Become comfortable with these acts. Prove to yourself that your limiting beliefs die a quick death if you will simply do what you feel uncomfortable doing.

Darren Rowse

#49. Much of my adult life has been spent fighting for equal opportunity, and the idea that I would support limiting opportunity for any segment of society, particularly women, is antithetical to who I am and what I have done.

Paul Tudor Jones

#50. Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained?

Ina May Gaskin

#51. Limiting the designation of marriage to a union 'between a man and a woman' is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the statute

Ron George

#52. These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

Derek Jarman

#53. There are teachers who say that one of the main obstacles, spiritual obstacles, for westerners is a sense of unworthiness, a self-limiting sense of what's possible for them in a human life.

Roland Merullo

#54. I don't know
what I'm feeling. Existing like I'm on auto pilot.
I've put my Armour on now. Limiting everything getting
in but also not letting anything out.

Tina J. Richardson

#55. The most holy and necessary practice in our spiritual life is the presence of God. That means finding constant pleasure in His divine company, speaking humbly and lovingly with him in all seasons, at every moment, without limiting the conversation in any way.

Brother Lawrence

#56. All it takes is one person in any generation to heal a family's limiting beliefs.

Gregg Braden

#57. Never curse yourself by limiting your students.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#58. The only thing that is limiting the blessings of God is our old way of thinking and a

Sunday Adelaja

#59. Not limiting your beliefs opens pathways to infinite potential.

Steven Redhead

#60. It's not hard to create self-beliefs that produce a successful and happy life. The main job is to unlearn your limiting beliefs.

Maddy Malhotra

#61. Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.

Marc Newson

#62. The only limits you have are the limits you believe.

Wayne Dyer

#63. The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting.

Anne Fadiman

#64. Never let the limitations or insecurities of others limit what is possible for you.

Hal Elrod

#65. If you feel stuck in your present life, if you feel no enthusiasm for anything, if you think you have no purpose or that you lost that purpose somewhere along the way, I guarantee you are living in a dungeon made of stories. And that none of those limiting stories are true.

Martha Beck

#66. I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.

Tamora Pierce

#67. Network TV is so limiting. There are so many parameters.

Chelsea Handler

#68. Limiting beliefs lead to limiting thoughts.
Limiting thoughts lead to limiting actions.
Change your beliefs and watch your actions change.

Charles F. Glassman

#69. If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.

Frank Herbert

#70. Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

Albert Schweitzer

#71. The media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly.

Noam Chomsky

#72. The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency
the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Allan Bloom

#73. Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past. Ours is less and less a free society.

Lawrence Lessig

#74. First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting condition, their world can fall apart.

Kate Middleton

#75. I don't believe in landing on one genre. That's too limiting. I don't think about that when I'm writing and recording. I just make what I feel should happen. Genres almost feel like something that's more for the listener; a need to organize it in categories.

Brooke Waggoner

#76. Plan from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream.

Archibald Marwizi

#77. And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones.

Max Born

#78. We are taking steps to fight the production of meth on our own soil through limiting access to precursor ingredients, supporting educational efforts and providing necessary resources to law enforcement.

Greg Walden