Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible is nothing but an excuse of our own contriving, to reconcile ourselves to our own idleness.

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

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

Excuses are the explanations we use for hanging on to behaviors we don't like about ourselves; they are self-defeating behaviors we don't know how to change. InExcuses Begone! I review 18 of the most common excuses people use, such as "I'm too busy, too old, too fat, too scared or it's going to take too long or be too difficult."

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

More often than not, the only thing between you and your dream is a rational excuse.

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

It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,'--which is just another way of saying that you can't.

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."

We're our own worst enemy. You doubt yourself more than anybody else ever will. If you can get past that, you can be successful.

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.

The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

Nobody can stop you more than you can stop yourself.

You're always striving to get better, and I would get in my own way sometimes or stop myself if I felt it wasn't as good as it should be. You're going to fall on your face a couple of times, and the lesson is to get back up.

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

If you think you are beaten you are, if you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win, but you think you can't, it is almost certain you won't.

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

The only person who can stop you from reaching your goals is you.

The only thing standing between me and greatness is me.

If you'd just try, I'm sure you'd be able to fly.

You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.