Elon Musk Quotes

Most of the reasons people think they can't do something are reasons they've created. Everything you do is up to you. Part of life is realizing that you have much more potential and ability than you'd ever know. However, it is up to you to reach inside, face the fears, and unleash that which really drives you.

We tend to minimize the things we can do, the goals we can accomplish, and for some equally strange reason we think other people can accomplish things that we cannot. I want you to understand that that is not true. You have deep reservoirs of talent and ability within you that you can bring to the surface and achieve all that you desire

[H]uman beings...make a limit in their mind of what their potential is. They decide, "I've been told this," or "this is what society tells me," or they've been made to believe something. If every human being actually threw away those thoughts...the potential of human beings is great, it's huge, compared to what they actually think of themselves.

Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.

Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs about who they are and what they can do, they never take actions that could make their dream a reality

We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.

Sometimes people - especially people over 40 - underestimate what they really are capable of. They believe they're not capable of doing something great. I tell people who are over 40, "I don't want your best. I want better than that. I want better than what you perceive your best is."

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.

I think most people can do a whole lot more if they just try.

The world is full of people who want to play it safe, people who have tremendous potential but never use it. Somewhere deep inside them, they know that they could do more in life, be more, and have more -- if only they were willing to take a few risks.

I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen.

The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above a certain level, are outside our self-concept-our image of who we are and what is appropriate to us.

I think sometimes the hardest obstacle is yourself.

I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things.

We are all more capable than we think we are.

Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.

You just have to try before thinking that you can't.

We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

So many people limit themselves by holding onto that baggage. They cut themselves off at the knees. And for me, meeting my father, and seeing how he was, and seeing that other side of where I came from, allowed me to kind of ascend spiritually. Now not to get all hippy or anything, but, you cant realise your potential unless you LET yourself realise your own potential.

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

People would ask if I wanted to host things and I was like, "No, I'm a writer, I don't host things." Just thinking I wouldn't be good at it - which is true - but also just wanting to hold on to some part of my identity.

I think that's great - I just try not to be one of those people. I find the more I think about it, the less free I feel when I write and when I work.

To force yourself out of the comfort zone, the main ingredient is trying to work in a world where you haven't been before, that you don't know the rules of. And that involves a lot of research, so you begin to see where the other people have been, but you are starting from as vulnerable and as low a point as possible.