Self Imposed Quotes
58 quotes by 56 authors
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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…
— Frank Herbert
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Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.…
— Stephen Colbert
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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…
— Sivananda
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There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss.
— Ann Aguirre
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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…
— Stephen Colbert
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Is yours an honest lament? ... Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least we of sincere…
— R A Salvatore
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It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable…
— Alan Watts
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You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
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A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves…
— Albert Einstein
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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
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Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful.
— Li Keqiang
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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
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All the concepts about stepping out of your comfort zone mean nothing until you decide that your essential purpose, vision and goals are more important…
— Robert White
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Don't sweat the small stuff!! SOOO much more powerful than words. When we release ourselves from the self-imposed need to obsess over little things.... our…
— MlY AB
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There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages that holds the key to breaking our cycle of self-imposed suffering. The secret wisdom is, Life is not supposed to…
— Kemis Khan
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This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.
— Dejan Stojanovic
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Behind every fear is a person you want to be. Fear is self-imposed, meaning it doesn't exist. You create it. You can destroy it too.…
— Ash Sweeney
Who Wrote These Self Imposed Quotes
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