Quotes About Setting Boundaries

#1. I am a master at setting boundaries that protect my time, energy, creativity, and emotional well-being.

Cheryl Richardson

#2. Setting boundaries is a way of caring for myself. It doesn't make me mean, selfish, or uncaring because I don't do things your way. I care about me too.

Christine Morgan

#3. Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don't matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends.

Brene Brown

#4. I've grown up in a generation that questions God for setting boundaries. Does He have the right to set boundaries? I've grown up in a generation that thinks where meeting with a God is an ordinary thing.

Francis Chan

#5. Setting boundaries and holding people accountable is a lot more work than shaming and blaming.

Brene Brown

#6. People may get angry at us for setting boundaries; they can't use us anymore. They may try to help us feel guilty so we will remove our boundary and return to the old system of letting them use or abuse us. Don't feel guilty and don't back down.

Melody Beattie

#7. Setting boundaries inevitably involves taking responsibility for your choices. You are the one who makes them. You are the one who must live with their consequences. And you are the one who may be keeping yourself from making the choices you could be happy with.

Henry Cloud

#8. God's plan for you, whether you're married, single, or about to be married, unless He gives you the gift of singleness, is to be in a warm, loving marriage relationship, characterized by open communication, a lot of hard work, deep commitment, setting boundaries, and doing it God's way.

Chip Ingram

#9. Set boundaries even when you're scared, and when it doesn't feel comfortable to do. Eventually setting boundaries will happen naturally for you,

Melody Beattie

#10. I assumed that people weren't doing their best so I judged them and constantly fought being disappointed, which was easier than setting boundaries. Boundaries are hard when you want to be liked and when you are a pleaser hellbent on being easy, fun, and flexible.

Brene Brown

#11. I'm never more courageous than when I'm embracing imperfection, embracing vulnerabilities, and setting boundaries with the people in my life.

Brene Brown

#12. If you fear that defending your boundaries is being controlling, don't worry. There is a difference between being controlling and having boundaries. Controlling people is about telling them what to do. Setting boundaries is about saying what you do or do not want to happen to you.

Adelyn Birch

#13. Setting boundaries isn't an alternative to loving your child. It is a means of loving her.

Henry Cloud

#14. Rather than caving in to protests, let us know who is in charge by setting boundaries.

Auliq Ice

#15. People who don't have experience setting healthy boundaries, they have secrets instead.

Jill Soloway

#16. Developing boundaries in young children is that proverbial ounce of prevention. If we teach responsibility, limit setting, and delay of gratification early on, the smoother our children's later years of life will be. The later we start, the harder we and they have to work.

Henry Cloud

#17. A broken soul doesn't invest in boundaries because the world has crossed them, without mercy.

Shannon L. Alder

#18. Asian horror is really setting a trend. The Pang brothers are from Hong Kong, so they just bring a whole different sensibility to a horror movie. In Hong Kong, they're actually doing stuff that's very artistic and pushing boundaries.

Kristen Stewart

#19. Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry ...

Erica Jong

#20. The funeral of Andrew Jackson at the Hermitage was flawed when his pet parrot had to be removed because it kept squawking out the profanity Jackson had taught the foul fowl.20

Craig Shirley

#21. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them ...

Dorothy Parker

#22. You cannot ask a person who is created to break down fences to be the same who builds them.
The one who breaks fences believes in freedom, no boundaries and universal browsing. Those who build them believe in setting rules for others and make sure other are controlled by his/her concepts ...

Sameh Elsayed

#23. Commercial television has lowered the general standard of TV in an endeavour to get millions and masses of people to watch the advertising. But that is not the problem of the advertiser.

Alfred Robens

#24. I understood books. I did not understand boys - especially alien boys.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#25. My prevailing interest has been in the world as a whole, and in the place of a person in a larger setting than one defined by national boundaries.

John Hersey

#26. Nobody can go back and start all over again. But anyone can start today and make a new beginning. Instead of another closure, make a new future.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#27. This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.

Liz Murray

#28. No matter how much you talk to yourself, read, study, or practice, you can't develop or set boundaries apart from supportive relationships with God and others. Don't even try to start setting limits until you have entered into deep, abiding attachments with people who will love you no matter what.

Henry Cloud

#29. Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other people's best interests.

Melody Beattie

#30. You have to love and respect yourself enough to not let people use and abuse you. You have to set boundaries and keep them, let people clearly know how you won't tolerate to be treated, and let them know how you expect to be treated.

Jeanette Coron

#31. I just think, as women, we have to give ourselves room to be individuals. So when a woman makes a decision for herself, we as women shouldn't set those hardcore boundaries for another woman. Just like we don't want men setting hardcore boundaries for us.

Jada Pinkett Smith