Top 100 Self Imposed Quotes
#1. Integrity is the value we set on ourselves. It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core.
James E. Faust
#2. Zarathustra received his revelations from the archangels at age thirty, when he began his prophetic mission; Siddhartha's great renunciation of his princely life took place in his thirtieth year. Thoreau at age thirty finished his self-imposed isolation at Walden Pond.
Kevin Dann
#3. Each member of this shadowy network resented the others, who were irritating reminders that nothing was more American, whatever that means, than fleeing the American, whatever that is, and that their soft version of self-imposed exile was just another of late empire's packaged tours.
Ben Lerner
#4. There's this emotion we all feel of being overwhelmed at times, feeling that you can't get ahead. For me it's self-imposed because I'm so driven and I'm always going from project to project.
Kenny Chesney
#5. Becoming an Earth Citizen means that you are breaking out of a self-imposed idea of who you are and embracing the broader reality of who you truly are.
Ilchi Lee
#6. He thought: Jessica, mother of Muad'Dib and grandmother of these royal twins, returns to our planet today. Why does she end her self-imposed exile at this time? Why does she leave the softness and security of Caladan for the dangers of Arrakis?
Frank Herbert
#7. Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.
Edward Abbey
#8. The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.
Phyllis Schlafly
#9. Excuses are a list of self imposed obstacles that prevent you from having a better life.
Tony Horton
#10. Kazuko was worried about him, calling him a hikikomori, a self-imposed shut-in.
Shuichi Yoshida
#11. 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
#12. Many people live in a self-imposed prison and don't even know it.
Lee L Jampolsky
#13. The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen"
which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.
Frank Herbert
#14. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self-imposed burden, but is not always rightly imposed.
R.A. Salvatore
#15. Few things infuse a member of Congress with more courage than self-imposed term limits or an imminent retirement. The issues they choose to focus on in their final months say a great deal about what are really the most important issues in the country.
Tom Coburn
#16. Yet. I'm starting to think that if the Internet is the CB radio of the nineties, then the home computer is the trailer park of the soul, a dangerous tool in the hands of idiots. Eventually self-imposed fascism will destroy man as he convinces himself he doesn't have to think anymore. SEPTEMBER
Marilyn Manson
#18. Putin likes to quote a sentence from Czar Alexander III, who said that Russian has only two allies - the army and the navy. As a citizen, this makes me sit up and take notice. This is a concept of self-imposed isolation, a defense strategy that sees Russia surrounded by enemies.
Vladimir Sorokin
#19. 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
#20. We should always be realistic about our needs, steer clear of this over indulgence and self imposed poverty nonsense.
Auliq Ice
#21. To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed.
Rod Taylor
#22. [To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.
Elizabeth I
#23. By accepting life before it happens, and letting go of your inner resistance to all things you cannot change, you unlock true emotional freedom from all of your self-imposed emotional pain.
Hal Elrod
#24. The pressure is self-imposed because I always want to do excellent work, and I always want to be interesting to people watching me.
Kristoffer Polaha
#25. Most souls labor under a self imposed curse of desiring but never truly giving themselves over to love.
Michael Xavier
#26. This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.
Dejan Stojanovic
#27. When your livelihood depends on self-imposed productivity, you either get good at it or you find yourself in mounds of debt.
Nacie Carson
#28. The fact of the matter is, we really and truly need each other. Women naturally seek friendship, support, and companionship. We have so much to learn from one another, and we often let self-imposed barriers keep us from enjoying associations which could be among the greatest blessings in our lives.
Bonnie L. Oscarson
#29. All limits are self imposed.
Icarus
#30. You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.
Tom Waits
#31. It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different.
Nancy Horan
#32. Her self-imposed sentence of unadulterated good-listenership had been fully served.
J.D. Salinger
#33. Each personal limit you exceed, each boundary you cross, verifies that most limits are indeed self imposed. Your potential and possibilities are far greater than you can ever imagine. You are capable of far more than you ever thought.
Robert J Kriegel
#34. It is a harder and a nobler task to preserve detachment in a crowd than in a cell; the little daily sacrifices of family life are often a greater trial than self-imposed mortifications.
William Ralph Inge
#35. Now you know how I fooled you," he would say. "Try to figure out on your own how your congressmen and clergymen fool you. There is no restraint that isn't self-imposed: you are all absolutely free.
Robert Anton Wilson
#37. I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.
Orhan Pamuk
#38. 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
#39. The sexual stage invites lovers to become whoever they want, enticed with endless possibilities of characters, roles, situations and scenarios to play-act. It is a chance for us to trade in our self-imposed labels and everyday identity for something a little more adventurous.
Miya Yamanouchi
#40. Books everywhere piled up in heaps, the rare companions of a solitude not self-imposed but sought.
Lawrence Durrell
#41. Caring for friends opens the heart, and gifts us with the privilege of sharing the fruits of our self-imposed and necessary solitude.
Max Elliott Slade
#42. 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
#43. And there's no state of slavery more disgraceful than one which is self-imposed.
Seneca.
#44. Hell had been his Vietnam. It had stamped its mark on him for all eternity, and no amount of denial or self-imposed ignorance was going to change it. Ever.
Joe Schreiber
#45. Natural born geniuses, like Mozart or Shakespeare, don't have anything more than you - they have something less. What they lack are the self-imposed blocks to the outflow of this infinite creative intelligence.
Derek Rydall
#46. Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation.
Elbert Hubbard
#47. Following of authority in any form, whether self-imposed or established from outside, as well as any form of imitation, copying, is destructive of incentive, of creativeness, and that it blocks the discovery of what is true.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#48. I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me.
Nicholas Brendon
#49. Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.
Arthur Koestler
#50. Your self-imposed prison. That think called your COMFORT ZONE. Challenge it, stretch it. You will thank yourself.
Tony Curl
#51. [With R-rated movie] you're not dealing with the restrictions imposed by the FCC. They're self-imposed. In a way, that does make it harder. You actually have to think about it, as opposed to just taking for granted that you're not going to be able to do this.
Seth MacFarlane
#52. Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.
Russell L. Ackoff
#53. Morrow [ ... ] felt that OASIS had evolved into something horrible. It had become a self-imposed prison for humanity. A pleasant place for the world to hide from its problems while human civilization slowly collapses, primarily due to neglect.
Ernest Cline
#54. Of all the hurdles you will need to face in this life time the hardest will be your self imposed limitations
Jan Hellriegel
#55. My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.
Dionne Warwick
#56. A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
Gerald Jampolsky
#57. Obstacles are opportunities turned upside down ... or prisons self-imposed.
Chriscinthia Blount
#58. I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
#59. She was just too curious to stay in a self-imposed mental straight-jacket for very long.
David Brooks
#60. The true conflict in innovation is self-imposed by trying to make our visions reality.
Pearl Zhu
#61. You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#62. Shea, particularly, had passed the point where his chief emotion was fear; now he felt only a sense of numbness that dulled his mind into self-imposed surrender, a robot-like acceptance of the fact that he was being led to the proverbial slaughter.
Terry Brooks
#63. 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
#64. It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
Al Yankovic
#65. I define workaholism as an obsessive-compulsive disorder that manifests itself through self-imposed demands, an inability to regulate work habits, and overindulgence in work to the exclusion of most other life activities.
Bryan E. Robinson
#66. I've always been a sort of self-imposed outsider, not a geeky outsider or a snobby outsider but, I just have a natural desire to live on the fringe. I'm not like a weirdo with a trench-coat but I just prefer to be alone or minimally surrounded by people.
Sara Quin
#67. A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.
Albert Einstein
#68. If you're struggling to "think outside the box" remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why not a bowl of petunias?
Ryan Lilly
#70. 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
#71. My skin is broken out from subconscious anxiety and tension, self-induced. Nothing is more difficult than lashing a vagrant mind suddenly into long self-imposed stints of concentration.
Sylvia Plath
#72. If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
Adyashanti
#73. No slavery is more disgraceful," he quipped, "than one which is self-imposed.
Ryan Holiday
#74. I knew that, without killing the creative mood, I had to keep the balance between my emotional outburst and the merciless discipline of a super-personal control, thus submitting myself ti the self-imposed law of dance composition
Mary Wigman
#75. Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force.
Anthony De Jasay
#76. The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.
Denis Waitley
#77. Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.
Mahatma Gandhi
#78. The pressure is all self-imposed, and it's to live up to the expectations of people who are going to shell out their hard-earned cash to listen to the music. It's actually more than that, though. I wouldn't want to make a record that didn't live up to my expectations.
Tom Scholz
#79. Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.
Holbrook Jackson
#80. This would become a lifelong pattern, sitting in my comfort zone high above the world in some sort of self-imposed exile.
Peggy Kopman-Owens
#81. All you need is a little space and a little time - a place to work, and some time to do it; a little self-imposed solitude and temporary captivity.
Austin Kleon
#82. Self-imposed insanely impossible deadlines often help.
David Hieatt
#83. Fear is a self imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with the weapons of faith and love.
Rick Warren
#84. There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.
Baroness Orczy
#85. 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.
Wayne Dyer
#86. But when you continue clinging to your feelings of guilt, this God-given mission becomes nothing more than self-imposed penance.
Karen Witemeyer
#87. I'm in self-imposed exile, cradled between split branches, in my favorite tree in the woods behind school. I've been coming here every day at lunch, hiding out until the bell rings, whittling words into the branches with my pen, allowing my heart to break in private.
Jandy Nelson
#88. There are rules in advertising, and those rules are self-imposed by the client companies because they don't want their products to be seen as dishonest.
Paul Arden
#89. And on the point-zero-five percent chance that I do lose, it'll get her on my bike, spreading her legs to straddle the leather and steel. No matter how much I've stuck to my self-imposed rule of "no chicks on the bike," that alone might be worth the small risk.
Angeline Kace
#90. Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. ... 1 Nothing is required for this enlightenment ... except freedom; and the freedom in question is the least harmful of all, namely, the freedom to use reason publicly in all matters. - IMMANUEL KANT, What Is Enlightenment?
Jon Meacham
#91. Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.
Sivananda Saraswati
#92. The pressure to be quintessentially black in every moment, whether it comes from the outside world or is self-imposed, keeps black people from being our authentic selves.
Justin Simien
#93. If he would only burst his self-imposed shackles, get out of himself, break away from the narrow bounds of his sickly, limited thought, he could be a power in the world.
Orison Swett Marden
#94. Just as my body had changed at puberty, now I was developing a sense of guilt, a sense not only of how I appeared to others, but of how I appeared to myself, especially in violating self-imposed prohibitions.
Hanif Kureishi
#95. It was more like a form of claustrophobia
a dread of exchanging the freedom of her own self-imposed routine for the inescapable burden of somebody else's.
Jan Struther
#96. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.
Stephen Colbert
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. There's a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss.
Ann Aguirre
#100. There is really just one reason why I used to be slower when I was younger: I was holding myself back. I've learned that these self-imposed limits are soft and malleable, not absolute.
Diederik Van Hoogstraten
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