Self Imposed Quotes
58 quotes by 56 authors
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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
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Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation.
— Elbert Hubbard
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
— Gerald Jampolsky
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If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
— Adyashanti
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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
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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
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Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.
— Arthur Koestler
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All limitations are self-imposed.
— Ernest Holmes
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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
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Limits are self-imposed. But there are no limits to human energy nor the goals you can achieve.
— Mike Shanahan
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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
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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
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Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.
— Russell L. Ackoff
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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
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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
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