Carla Gugino Quotes

I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.

The only thing holding us back is ourselves.

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

I'm trying to get out of my own way.

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.

Nothing's holding me back. If I'm held back, the only thing holding me back was me.

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.

excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system.

Self-doubt does more to sabotage individual potential than all external limitations put together.

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

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

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

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.

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.

Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.

Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.

It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade.

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

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.

I've learned how my own perfectionism can cripple me.

With a fixed mindset, you're so worried about how smart or talented you are, you don't take on challenges. You don't try new things.