Top 1200 Limiting Yourself Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.

Film has a tendency to be limiting in some way and it shouldn't be. It's a form that can be explored and changed.

Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don't be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job, don't pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

There are a lot of possibilities I'm looking at for the future, but I'm very insistent on not limiting myself.

Playing albums in sequence can be awesome, or it can be very limiting.

I don't like calling it Christian rap. Titles are so limiting. It's hip-hop. I'm a rapper.

Forgive yourself for not being the richest, the thinnest, the tallest, the one with the best hair. Forgive yourself for not being the most successful, the cutest or the one with the fastest time. Forgive yourself for not winning every round. Forgive yourself for being afraid. But don’t let yourself off the hook, never forgive yourself, for not caring or not trying.

Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.

Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.

I don't set goals. Competing with a number in your head can be limiting, and I don't know what my capabilities are yet.

[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication.

I feel like you can will yourself into a good space. Things that are meant to happen, will. If you believe in yourself enough, you can help yourself learn. You can inspire yourself in ways to discipline yourself to a point where you CAN become good enough.

To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.

The word "surrender" is often interpreted as giving up, as weakness, as admitting defeat. Although this is one way to use the word, we will use it in a different way. Surrendering means letting go of your resistance to the total openness of who you are. It means giving up the tension of the little vortex you believe yourself to be and realizing the deep power of the ocean you truly are. It means to open with no boundaries, emotional or physical, so you ease wide beyond any limiting sense of self you might have.

Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people.

Not having a New York culinary tradition, far from being limiting, it's an opportunity to create freely.

Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.

A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too.

They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU.

When I was 18, and my looks were what I was - and all that I was - it did feel very limiting.

If you accept a limiting belief, then it will become a truth for you.

Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past.

Fear is one of the worst, and most limiting, emotions in life.

Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.

You could be a locavore in Florida or southern California. But I tried that. It was really limiting.

We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.

I recognize limitations in the sense that I've read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare . . . Aside from that I don't think of limiting myself.

I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.

People are often very limiting to themselves and can be their own worst enemy.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Love yourself not in some egocentric, self-serving sense but love yourself the way you would love your friend in the sense of taking care of yourself, nourishing yourself, trying to understand, comfort, and strengthen yourself.

'Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.

I love playing video games, but I'm regularly disappointed in the limited and limiting ways women are represented.

Anything you are exclusively attached to & identify with ends up distorting & limiting awareness.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

There are a lot of little tricks you can do to inject a bit more time into the day. Most important is limiting yourself to a 40 hour week, not working 50 hours or 60 or 70. It's just crazy. It's actually irresponsible to you and irresponsible to your family and friends. Why should your employer's profits be more important than your own family? You're not even going to get any of the profits - all you get is not losing your job. It's a very negative system.

We can prevent fighting by limiting weapons or finding nonviolent ways to end disputes.

I think being the conventional beauty is limiting, so I'm glad I'm not that. If I looked different, I wouldn't have the great opportunities I've had.

Limiting the designation of marriage to a union 'between a man and a woman' is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the statute.

I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected.

When you come from the wrestling world, you are taught to do everything for yourself: market yourself, plan for yourself, design for yourself.

When you’re living by default, you’re automatically reacting to life in habitual ways, many of which may be limiting you and your life. In contrast, living deliberately means making more conscious and constructive life choices. When you’re living deliberately, you’re living from a position of responsibility; you’re making choices with greater awareness. You’re taken yourself off autopilot, so you’re better prepared to align your actions with the results you want to achieve.

Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting.

I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are.

Have the unflinching determination to move on your path unhampered by limiting thoughts of past errors.

There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.

The only limitations are the ones we put on ourselves and I just don't believe in limiting myself.

Love yourself. Respect yourself. Never sell yourself short. Believe in yourself regardless of what people think. You can accomplish anything, absolutely anything, if you set your mind to it.

The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

Once you have established yourself as a center of love and kindness radiating throughout your being, which amounts to a cradling of yourself in loving kindness and acceptance, you can dwell here indefinitely, drinking at this fount, bathing it in, renewing yourself, nourishing yourself, enlivening yourself. This can be a profoundly healing practice for body and soul.

Have you doubted your progress, regretted your choices, put yourself down? Remember that you are doing just fine. Remind yourself right now that no matter what it looks like, you are doing the best you can. And getting better. Encourage yourself, support yourself, and celebrate every little thing about yourself.

I got to start limiting the hits I take on myself.

All it takes is one person in any generation to heal a family's limiting beliefs.

Revolutions invariably don't solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.

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

Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.