Self Imposed Quotes

58 Self Imposed quotes by 56 unique authors

I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me. — Nicholas Brendon
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… — Esther Hicks
....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether… — Daniel Goleman
Of all the hurdles you will need to face in this life time the hardest will be your self imposed limitations — Jan Hellriegel
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… — Anthony de Jasay
To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed. — Rod Taylor
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… — Al Yankovic
The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed. — Denis Waitley
Instead of "I love you," it would be better to say "I am love-I am the embodiment of Pure Love." Remove the I and you,… — Mata Amritanandamayi
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
In the information age, the barriers [to entry into programming] just aren't there. The barriers are self imposed. If you want to set off and… — John Carmack
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… — Tom Waits
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… — Hal Elrod
It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to… — Gary Zukav
My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless. — Dionne Warwick
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
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
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
There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss. — Ann Aguirre
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
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
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
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
You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations. — Wayne Gerard Trotman
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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