Self Imposed Quotes

58 quotes by 56 authors

• It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp… — Eleanor Perenyi
• Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation. — Elbert Hubbard
• 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… — Wayne Dyer
• Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to… — William Howard Taft
• As a matter of law the states recognized no constraints on their legislative scope other than those that were self-imposed. Even where particular state constitutions… — Immanuel Wallerstein
• 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… — Edward Abbey
• There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another. — George H. W. Bush
• A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations. — Gerald Jampolsky
• If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once. — Adyashanti
• I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think is overly generous. I've got… — Scott Rigell
• 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
• Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. — Arthur Koestler
• All limitations are self-imposed. — Ernest Holmes
• 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… — Rick Warren
• Limits are self-imposed. But there are no limits to human energy nor the goals you can achieve. — Mike Shanahan
• 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… — James E. Faust
• Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if… — Immanuel Kant
• Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal. — Russell L. Ackoff
• What I've done serves mostly to show that nearly all limits are self-imposed, a false construct of the mind. You can take on mind-boggling challenges.… — Marshall Ulrich
• It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different. — Nancy Horan

Who Wrote These Self Imposed Quotes

56 authors contributed a total of 58 Self Imposed Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Self Imposed Quotes by Immanuel Kant
• 2 Self Imposed Quotes by Stephen Colbert
• 1 Self Imposed Quote by Scott Rigell
• 1 Self Imposed Quote by Sivananda
• 1 Self Imposed Quote by Phyllis Schlafly
• 1 Self Imposed Quote by Ann Aguirre
• 1 Self Imposed Quote by Arthur Koestler
• 1 Self Imposed Quote by R A Salvatore
• 1 Self Imposed Quote by Ernest Holmes
• 1 Self Imposed Quote by Khaled Hosseini
• 1 Self Imposed Quote by Rick Warren
• 1 Self Imposed Quote by Alan Watts
• 1 Self Imposed Quote by Mike Shanahan
• 1 Self Imposed Quote by Wayne Gerard Trotman
• 1 Self Imposed Quote by James E. Faust
• 1 Self Imposed Quote by Albert Einstein
• 1 Self Imposed Quote by Kristoffer Polaha
• 1 Self Imposed Quote by Russell L. Ackoff
• 1 Self Imposed Quote by Li Keqiang
• 1 Self Imposed Quote by Marshall Ulrich
• 1 Self Imposed Quote by Dean Karnazes
• 1 Self Imposed Quote by Nancy Horan
• 1 Self Imposed Quote by Robert White
• 1 Self Imposed Quote by Sara Quin
• 1 Self Imposed Quote by MlY AB