Top 63 Quotes About Self-imposed Limitations
#2. So entrapped are we in our self-expectation and self-imposed limitations that we fail to see that we have always had the keys to our own prisons - we're just scared shitless to use them.
Rollo Tomassi
#3. It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to take those things which we call common-place and to 're-present' them to us - the world - in such ways that our self-imposed limitations are expanded.
Gary Zukav
#4. Look for good things about where you are, and in your state of appreciation, you lift all self-imposed limitations - and all limitations are self-imposed - and you free yourself for the receiving of wonderful things.
Esther Hicks
#5. Practice unfettered living from the heart, abandoning all self-imposed limitations to emerge a new, creativity unleashed, giving of yourself like never before.
Pooja Ruprell
#6. 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.
Saurabh Sharma
#7. Be all you can be in whatever you choose to do. The sky is the limit, so go for it. And do not create any self-imposed limitations.
Nick Saban
#8. You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#9. A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
Gerald Jampolsky
#10. Of all the hurdles you will need to face in this life time the hardest will be your self imposed limitations
Jan Hellriegel
#11. If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.
Dean Karnazes
#12. If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
Adyashanti
#13. The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the "I."
Ramana Maharshi
#15. The freedom to choose ... means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self.
Caroline Knapp
#16. Compared with other recent presidents whose stumbles and failures have assaulted the national self-esteem, memories of Kennedy continue to give the country faith that its better days are ahead. That's been reason enough to discount his limitations and remain enamored of his presidential performance.
Robert Dallek
#17. The only limitations man has are the ones he sets for himself.
Ralph Waldo Trine
#18. I refuze (refuse) to allow society to dictate my limitations.
Tony Kates
#19. I think the overriding message would be that love is serious business. True, down-to-the-crap love is not for the shallow or faint of heart. People are messy. Marriage is messy. You have to bring your best self to the game despite your limitations.
Ka Hancock
#20. When we play, we sense no limitations. In fact, when we are playing, we are usually unaware of ourselves. Self-observation goes out the window. We forget all those past lessons of life, forget our potential foolishness, forget ourselves. We immerse ourselves in the act of play. And we become free.
Lenore Terr
#21. Only through becoming aware of yourself and your limitations can you be transparent with others.
Joanie Connell
#22. Limitations tend to be illusions or self created barriers.
Steven Redhead
#23. Limitations are nothing more than optical illusions, created by our own self-doubt.
Robert M. Hensel
#24. There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real.
Eckhart Tolle
#25. Man had to invent and create out of himself the limitations of perception and the equanimity to live on this planet. And so to the core of psychodynamics, the formation of the human character, is a study in human self-limitation and in the terrifying costs of that limitation.
Ernest Becker
#27. Your only limitations are those that you impose upon yourself
Gary Hopkins
#28. I have only one purpose: to make people free, to urge them towards freedom, to help them to break away from all limitations, for that alone will give them eternal happiness, will give them the unconditional realization of Self.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#29. I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
Jim Harrison
#30. Authenticity is a continual process of building self-awareness, a journey through which we acknowledge both our strengths and our limitations, and come to identify a noble purpose.
Tom Hayes
#31. Each of us does, in effect, strike a series of deals or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations.
Maggie Scarf
#32. Calling upon our crucible moments allows us to transcend our own limitations. Those moments create completely new possibilities within each of us.
Bill Jensen
#33. Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#34. There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.
Mortimer J. Adler
#35. Nothing is more self-limiting than going to extremes.
Marty Rubin
#36. A person's greatest limitations are not genetic, but imposed by self-doubt, insecurities, indecision, and timidity.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#37. In meditation and/or intense life interfaces, our personal view is often superseded by Self's, causing our apparent reality and all of it's limitations to disappear.
James R. Swartz
#38. [H]eavenly personality, or the perpetuation of human personality in heaven is nothing else than personality released from all earthly encumbrances and limitations[.] [H]ere we are men, there gods[.]
Ludwig Feuerbach
#39. I'd always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations.
Gretchen Rubin
#40. Imagine our imaginations were limited only to the limitless. Still, it wouldn't matter without a motivation to move.
Ryan Lilly
#41. Well for me, courage means having the courage to walk off the edge of what is known, with complete faith that you're not going to go crashing to the bottom. Stepping outside of your own self-perceived boundaries and limitations.
Brad Willis
#42. What we call "imperfections" are illusions caused by expectation. They are a psychological warning that we are not seeing true potential, but self- imposed limitation.
Steve Maraboli
#43. Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you.
Vironika Tugaleva
#44. Self-confidence is not taught or learned; it is earned by surpassing your own self-limitations.
John Raynolds
#45. When we are honest about the limitations we are self imposing it becomes necessary to cry out with determination and state you've had enough of the mediocrity of stagnation.
Heidi Reagan
#46. There are those who will resent you for not being confined by their limitations.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#48. Personal mastery begins by increasing our awareness about who we truly are, our strengths, limitations... Personal mastery can be achieved not only by being aware but also by controlling what is happening inside and around ourselves...
Assegid Habtewold
#49. Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet.
Doris Brown Heritage
#50. I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.
Sandra Cisneros
#51. Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.
Deepak Chopra
#52. That was the strength of Ellysetta's weave. Bright, unyielding,indefatigable love. Love that did not know surrender. Love that did not understand limitations or even basic self-preservation. Love that would batter itself to death before giving in to defeat.
C.L. Wilson
#53. When you know yourself - your strengths, joys, limitations, and fears - you can live in truth and transparency in all areas of your life.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#54. This is not to say that becoming a father automatically makes you a good father. Fatherhood, like marriage, is a constant struggle against your limitations and self-interests. But the urge to be a perfect father is there, because your child is a perfect gift.
Kent Nerburn
#55. All limits are self imposed.
Icarus
#56. When you believe the truth about yourself, the truth that people are created to solve problems and overcome the limitations of their nature you make a name for yourself
Sunday Adelaja
#57. The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale.
James Gleick
#58. 'fundamentalism' and 'liberalism' and terrorism.' These labels only tell us partial truths. We must use them humbly, guardedly, Niebuhr would say, aware of the limitations of our own vision and of our own capacity for misunderstanding and self-deception.
Krista Tippett
#59. There are no limitations to the self
except those you believe in.
Seth
#60. We have been pretending for a long time to be limited beings.
Raphael Zernoff
#61. A happy life, a life making full use of all our potential is and must be a balanced life. The obstacles to it are mainly illusory; most of our limitations are self-imposed.
Louis Tice
#62. I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.
Luke Rhinehart
