Carol S. Dweck Quotes

The only person holding you back is you.

I get in my own way a lot. I feel a lot more confident than I... am.

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

It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

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

We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough."

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

I'm afraid to fail again.

People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.

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.

What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.

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

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

I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

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

My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'

I used to say no to almost everything because I thought, 'I've got enough dough, I know what I want to do, and I know what I'm capable of.'

Too many of us suffer from pervasive feelings of personal powerlessness. We have a terrible habit of obstructing our own paths forward, especially at the worst possible moments.

I've always had confidence issues; I just get scared of doing things wrong.

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

I'm sure there are some things I'm not good at.

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've held myself back a lot for a lack of confidence.

I was scared of failing, and I was scared of succeeding. I just wanted to be in a safe space and not grow too big or be too little.