Karen Salmansohn Quotes

It is our interpretation of the past, our limiting beliefs, and our undigested pain that stop us from being able to move forward with clear direction.

The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.

We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem.

It's our own small voice within that is our oppressor; it says we are not worthy and not powerful enough. Our limited beliefs are the real foes we need to fight and conquer.

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.

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

The only person holding you back is you.

I refuse to allow the excuses in my mind to grow into giants that keep me from living up to my full potential.

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

Our inner beliefs trigger failure before it happens. They sabotage lasting change by canceling its possibility. We employ these beliefs as articles of faith to justify our inaction and then wish away the result. I call them belief triggers.

The theme that runs through my movies is the fact that we create barriers for ourselves....because we say, Well, I can't do that. But in the end, you can't do it unless you can imagine yourself succeeding at it.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

You'll often find that it's not mom or dad, husband or wife, or the kids that's stopping you. It's you. Get out of your own way.

It's amazing - you may not realize it, but so much of what you are not is because you are literally standing in your own way of becoming. And what I'm pleading with you about is, get the hell out of your own way.

The only thing that's holding you back, is the way you're thinking.

Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds

Don't become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief in your mind?

The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.

The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you.

It's not usually anybody else's false when you don't get what you want. Sometimes it is. There's exceptions to everything. It's usually the self-limitations that we attach to ourselves.

Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states.

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

I'd always believed that a life of quality, enjoyment, and wisdom were my human birthright and would be automatically bestowed upon me as time passed. I never suspected that I would have to learn how to live - that there were specific disciplines and ways of seeing the world I had to master before I could awaken to a simple, happy, uncomplicated life.

Your genius will shine through, and happiness will fill your life, the instant you discover your higher purpose and direct all your energies towards it.