Patricia Sun Quotes

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.

Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

The only person holding you back is you.

The thing you have to be on guard against, more than anything, is self-sabotage. You have to make sure you're not your own worst enemy.

I'm my biggest problem; I'm the thing that stops me most from doing what I need to do to be successful or to achieve success in whatever area of life.

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.

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

I've always felt like, you know, there's this imaginary wall that we ourselves put up or others do by saying that we can't do something.

We've been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can't do - about what is impossible.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

The worst thing you can think about when you're working is yourself.

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.

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.

I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.

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

I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes.

Man is very vain; he likes to feel that he is responsible for all the favorable things that happen, and he is innocent of all the unfavorable happenings

Most men … can seldom discern even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as obliges them to admit the falsity of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with much difficulty — conclusions of which they are proud, which they have taught to others, and on which they have built their lives