John C. Maxwell Quotes

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

Belief in limits creates limited people

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

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

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

You will never rise above the image you have of yourself in your own mind.

Negative thinking limits God and our potential.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

You are never stuck, unless you are choosing to stay there. You are never limited, unless you choose to limit yourself. You are never less than, unless you choose to see yourself this way. You will never fail, unless you choose failure as an option. You are powerful beyond belief!

You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights.

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.

My belief is that most of the limitations people have or face are self-imposed.

The birth of excellence begins with our awareness that our beliefs are a choice. We usually don't think of it that way, but belief can be a conscious choice. You can choose beliefs that limit you, or you can choose beliefs that support you. The trick is to choose the beliefs that are conducive to success and the results you want and to discard the ones that hold you back.

Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we can be

[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.

We have a mental block inside us that stops us from earning more than we think we are worth. If we want to earn more in reality, we have to upgrade our self-concept.

Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience.

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

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

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

If you think you can't, why think

Our goals should stretch us bit by bit. So often when we think we have encountered a ceiling, it is really a psychological or experiential barrier that we have built ourselves. We built it and we can remove it.

Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.