Satoru Iwata Quotes

The worst thing in the world is telling yourself you can't do something.

I always feel like I can do anything. That's the main thing people are controlled by: thoughts and perceptions of yourself... If you're taught you can't do anything, you won't do anything

Remember, in the end, it isn't what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.

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

We're our own worst enemy. You doubt yourself more than anybody else ever will. If you can get past that, you can be successful.

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.

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

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.

Most of the time, it's your thinking, not your talent, that holds you back.

How much we can do, depends on how much we THINK we can do.

You will never go beyond the barriers in your own mind. If you think you can't do something, then you never will.

Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind.

The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.

The worst part is doubt. When you doubt yourself, which we are taught to do, you get lost.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

The only thing holding us back is ourselves.

I have had fear in the past, yes. I've learned to fight it. But I still have my moments. I just have to remind myself that fear is all within your mind, and that you're only holding yourself back when you give in to it. Even fear of success can be scary.

We all have things that limit us and that challenge us. But really, our real limitations are the ones we believe.

If you tell yourself you can't, you're right.

The only person holding you back is you.

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

Our abilities are limited only by our perceptions.

When you will, make a resolution, set your jaw, you are expressing an imaginative fear that you won't do the thing. If you knew you would do the thing, you would smile happily and set about it. And this fear (since the imagination is always creative) comes about presently and you slide down into the complete slump of several weeks or years - the very thing you dreaded and set your jaw against.

Belief in limits creates limited people

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?