116 Limiting Yourself Quotes

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Famous Limiting Yourself Quotes

Whenever you define who you are, you limit yourself to what you may potentially be. — Ralph Smart

The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence. — Erwin McManus

Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you. — Masamune Shirow

Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you. — Og Mandino

When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do. — Charles M. Schwab

Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination. — Mae Jemison

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve. — Mary Kay Ash

The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes. — Soren Kierkegaard

By setting limitations, we must choose the essential. So in everything you do, learn to set limitations. — Leo Babauta

The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself. — Denis Waitley

The only limitations are the ones we put on ourselves. — Ita Buttrose

To define is to limit. - Oscar Wilde

To define is to limit. — Oscar Wilde

The thing about limitations is that they are only true as long as you believe in them. So, instead of believing in your limitations, start believing in yourself. — Jay Shetty

Our own limitations are those we set up in our own minds. - Napoleon Hill

Our own limitations are those we set up in our own minds. — Napoleon Hill

Limitation makes the creative mind inventive. — Walter Gropius

Short Limiting Yourself Quotes

  • If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life. — Kevin Costner
  • When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them. — Peter McWilliams
  • Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself. — Roy Bennett
  • Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. — Les Brown
  • We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision. — Kahlil Gibran
  • The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish. — Michael Porter
  • Your greatness is limited only by the investments you make in yourself. — Grant Cardone
  • Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself. — Mina Loy
  • Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations. — Mae Jemison
  • Focus on your potential instead of your limitations. — Alan Loy McGinnis

Limiting Yourself Image Quotes

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself. - Brian Tracy quote

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself. — Brian Tracy

Push YOURSELF to the edge of YOUR limits. That's how they expand - Robin Sharma quote

Push YOURSELF to the edge of YOUR limits. That's how they expand — Robin Sharma

Limiting yourself quote Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.
Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.

Stop Limiting Yourself Quotes

Never stop learning and adapting. The world will always be changing. If you limit yourself to what you knew and what you were comfortable with earlier in your life, you will grow increasingly frustrated with your surroundings as you age. — David Niven

Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states. — Tony Robbins

Sky is the limit, never doubt yourself, stay focused, never let anything slow or stop you from concurring your goals and making your dreams happen! — Myles Jury

Limiting yourself quote The only limits you have are the limits you believe.
The only limits you have are the limits you believe.

What sentence will you choose to impose on yourself? Are you willing to stop suffering and making yourself miserable when your sentence has expired? This would at least be a responsible way to punish yourself because it would be time-limited. — David D. Burns

Transcending mind-made limitations doesn't mean you stop being yourself. On the contrary, you become more yourself than ever before. — Steve Ross

As I said, my parents loved that when they came to America, if you worked hard, the only things that could stop you were the limits you placed on yourself. — Nikki Haley

Not Limiting Yourself Quotes

There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. — Bruce Lee

Intermittent fasting is not about starving yourself, it’s about giving your body the nutrients it needs in a limited time frame. — Eric Berg

Nothing is impossible to the mind. All it's guidance and power are available to you. When you fully realize that thought causes all, you will know there are never any limits that you yourself do not impose. — Uell Stanley Andersen

Limiting yourself quote There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there a
There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life - and maybe even please a few strangers. — A.L. Kennedy

Give yourself the freedom to explore the possibility of life without limits. Goals are dreams with deadlines, a means to an end but not the ultimate purpose of life. — Glynis Nunn

Happiness is not a limited resource. So help yourself, and there will be plenty left for everyone else. — Marie Forleo

Limiting yourself quote Never tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
Never tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon.

Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality. — Henri Frederic Amiel

If you limit yourself, in my opinion you’re just saying, ‘We’re not supposed to win this game.’ You’re playing into their hands. You are scared of what of this team does. You can’t go into the game scared, that’s for sure. Richard Sherman, a great player but you have to play football. — Charles Woodson

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

It's not all been rosy; I've had difficult situations where I've failed. But when you fail you learn a lot about yourself and come back stronger. The message is: life need not have limits. Having an opportunity in life is important but what defines you is what you do with that opportunity. — Richard Whitehead

Inspirational Quotes

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly - Paulo Coelho

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho

Limiting yourself quote The only limitations one has are the ones they place on themselves.
The only limitations one has are the ones they place on themselves.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. — Helen Keller

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams

Limiting yourself quote Don't limit yourself to the skies when there is a whole galaxy out there.
Don't limit yourself to the skies when there is a whole galaxy out there.

If God is for us, who can be against us? — Paul the Apostle

The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle

Self Limiting Quotes

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

The single biggest obstacle to us getting what we really need and want in life is right here. It's ourselves. — William Ury

What if all those terrible stories you tell yourself about yourself aren’t true? What if the limits you self-impose on your capabilities are a lie? Consider the possibility. Then modify your behavior accordingly. — Rich Roll

Limiting yourself quote We must not allow others' limited perceptions to define us.
We must not allow others' limited perceptions to define us.

There can be no conquest to the man who dwells in the narrow and small environment of a groveling life, and there can be no vision to the man the horizon of whose vision is limited by the bounds of self. — Matthew Henson

I have come to the conclusion that the greatest obstacle to getting what we really want in life is not the other party, as difficult as he or she can be. The biggest obstacle is actually ourselves. — William Ury

A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body. — Alexander Lowen

Limiting yourself quote It is hard to give unlimited power to limited minds.
It is hard to give unlimited power to limited minds.

Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off. — Mary Lou Retton

The greatest discovery in life is to discover that our essential nature does not share the limits nor the destiny of the body and mind. — Rupert Spira

Contrary to what they tell you... You are not a limited material being. — Amit Goswami

You have a limited amount of fucks to give. Very few, in fact. And if you go around giving a fuck about everything and everyone without conscious thought or choice—well, then you're going to get fucked. — Mark Manson

Self Limiting Beliefs Quotes

You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights. — Brian Tracy

There is one grand lie - that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe. — Wayne Dyer

One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs. — Nathaniel Branden

Limiting yourself quote The definition of success is when you are free to do what you love, without any limitations.
The definition of success is when you are free to do what you love, without any limitations.

The only limitations man has are the ones he sets for himself. — Ralph Waldo Trine

Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response to our family and childhood experiences, and they become rooted in the subconscious... we have the ability to take action to override it. — Lauren Mackler

All too often we're filled with negative and limiting beliefs. We're filled with doubt. We're filled with guilt or with a sense of unworthiness. We have a lot of assumptions about the way the world is that are actually wrong. — Jack Canfield

Limiting yourself quote The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has it limits.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has it limits.

You are given the gift of the gods; you create your reality according to your beliefs; yours is the creative energy that makes your world; there are no limitations to the self except those you believe in. — Seth

There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in. — Seth

Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Believe in some beneficent force beyond your own limited self. God, god, god: where are you? I want you, need you: the belief in you and love and mankind. — Sylvia Plath

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More Limiting Yourself Quotes

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you. — Benjamin Franklin

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit — Edward Said

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations; your conscious expands in every direction; and you find yourself in a great, new and wonderful world. — Patanjali

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are. — Eckhart Tolle

The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian. — Murray Rothbard

So many people along the way,whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can't be done. But it all it takes is imagination. You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there no limits. — Michael Phelps

Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do. — Sylvie Guillem

If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so. The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

The Power of WHO provides great lessons about how to succeed in business and in life. If you surround yourself with quality people and great friends, the sky's the limit. — Wayne Gretzky

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again. — David Viscott

The alternative approach is to fix a hard upper limit on the number of things that you allow yourself to work on at any given time. — Oliver Burkeman

Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that reinforce a perception of yourself as vulnerable and limited, or to remember that your true nature is pure, unconditioned, and incapable of being harmed. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. — Anais Nin

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

If you surround yourself with positive people who build you up, the sky is the limit. — Joel Brown

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are. — Ernst Haas

Don’t limit yourself and don’t let others convince you that you are limited in what you can do. Believe in yourself and then live so as to reach your possibilities. You can achieve what you believe you can. Trust and believe and have faith. — Thomas S. Monson

You will never learn anything new unless you are ready to accept yourself with your limitations. You must accept the fact that you are capable in some directions and limited in others, and you must develop your capabilities. — Bruce Lee

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise. — Robert Fritz

Nature set a limit on sleep - as it did on eating and drinking. And youre over the limit. But not of working. There youre still below your quota. You dont love yourself enough. Or youd love your nature too and what it demands of you. People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it. They even forget to wash and eat. — Marcus Aurelius

Whenever other worlds invite us, whenever we are balancing on the boundaries of our limited human condition, that’s where life starts, that’s where you start feeling yourself living. — Philippe Petit

If you're unwilling to leave someplace you've outgrown, you will never reach your full potential. To be the best, you have to constantly be challenging yourself, raising the bar, pushing the limits of what you can do. Don't stand still, leap forward. — Ronda Rousey

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit. — Jim Rohn

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself. — Ice T

Limit yourself to fewer goals, and you’ll achieve more. — Leo Babauta

Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others. — Judith M Bardwick

When a young person asks me: 'Can you show me how to do this?' I simply answer: 'No, I am going to show you how to do it. But then, you'll have to learn with your own technique, your own way of moving, your style, your abilities and your limitations. You are going to learn to be yourself, not someone else. — David Belle

Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; its a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. Its all right there in front of us. — Phil Anselmo

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