Mental Barriers Quotes

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

She thinks, I failed twice. If I failed twice I'm going to fail forever. No! That is not the law of life. If you failed twice that means you can learn. It's just a learning experience. It's an obstacle. An imaginary obstacle. She made it real. She made failing a journey of life... Instead do again and make a journey of your life.

Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.

I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.

The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.

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

I have had fear in the past, yes. I've learned to fight it. But I still have my moments. I just have to remind myself that fear is all within your mind, and that you're only holding yourself back when you give in to it. Even fear of success can be scary.

If you think your obstacles are too big, they will be. Don’t set limits on your life with your thinking.

Nothing is impossible unless you think it is.

The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves.

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

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."

Limits exist only in the souls of those who do not dream.

I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.

There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.

Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.

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

Most closed heavens for the Christian are between his ears. Believing a lie empowers the liar.

We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.