David Joseph Schwartz Quotes

When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.

Pronounce your limitations vigorously enough and they're yours.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

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

Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

In most of our situations in life, if we take a good honest look at our lives, we are holding to small, limiting thoughts, cynical thoughts.

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.

Most of us talk ourselves out of our own ideas, because we're our own worst enemy.

There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.

A lot of people don’t just go ahead and try things. They’ll have an idea and they’ll say — they’ll convince themselves or other people will convince them that it can’t be done. You know, one or the other. Actually I think that the first is even more dangerous and more serious. It’s convincing yourself that it can’t be done.

How to get taken: Spend most of your time making sure you're not.

The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.

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

Perfectionism is really a manifestation of the belief that one's efforts are never good enough. Imagine: How many of the obstacles standing in your way are the product of your own imagination? What have you convinced yourself that you can't do? What limitations have you come to believe in? Your mind is very powerful and effective. Is it working for you, or against you?

I see people - they won't be negative toward other people, but inside they're negative toward themselves, and I think that holds us back.

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.

If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.

What are the "ifs" and "buts" that limit my enjoyment of life?

If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right.

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

Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, how can I possibly change, this is my nature, I can't help it - that are just memes