Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.

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

Many things we can't do are simply because we think we can't do them.

Your only limitation is the one you set up in your own mind!

Underconfidence breeds underachievement.

Self-doubt does more to sabotage individual potential than all external limitations put together.

I realised it was only me who was stopping myself from living my life.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.

Within me, I knew I would never be a first-rate producer. I wasn't tough enough.

Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.

The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.

The only thing holding us back is ourselves.

With a fixed mindset, you're so worried about how smart or talented you are, you don't take on challenges. You don't try new things.

You would not hang out with people that talk to you the way you talk to yourself. So get out of your head! Your feelings! Your feelings are screwing you! I don't care how you feel! I care about what you want! And if you listen to how you feel, when it comes to what you want - you will not get it. Because you will never feel like it.

The only person holding you back is you.

The thing you have to be on guard against, more than anything, is self-sabotage. You have to make sure you're not your own worst enemy.

I've held myself back a lot for a lack of confidence.

Nothing's holding me back. If I'm held back, the only thing holding me back was me.

Nobody can stop you more than you can stop yourself.

I used to psyche myself out. Only, back then, we didn't know the word 'psyche.'

The only limitations that I can have are the ones that I set on myself.

Belief in limits creates limited people

The only person who can stop you from reaching your goals is you.