Quotes & Sayings About Limiting Beliefs

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 — Tony Robbins

When you mark where your self-doubt is, then you can begin to conquer it. — Stephen Richards

Are you a fortune-teller? A clairvoyant? If not, why anticipate the worst for yourself? We predict events will turn out in a negative way because our self-beliefs are limiting. — Maddy Malhotra

Self-critical thoughts and detrimental predictions about yourself have a huge impact on our mood/feelings. It affects our attitude, decisions and behavior. They ensure our self-esteem stays low and can create physical illnesses. — Maddy Malhotra

God is full of love, joy and peace. Every religion has said that God is within us or we are a part of God so why do we think small?
Why do we have limiting beliefs about our success? Why do we not love ourselves? Why do we have fears? Isn't thinking negative/small a sin then? — Maddy Malhotra

People are not "things" to be manipulated, labeled, boxed, bought, and sold. Above all else, they are not "human resources." They are entire human beings, containing the whole of the evolving universe, limitless until we start limiting them. We must examine the concept of leading and following with new eyes. We must examine the concept of superior and subordinate with increasing skepticism. We must examine the concept of management and labor with new beliefs. And we must examine the nature of organizations that demand such distinctions with an entirely different consciousness. — Dee Hock

As soon as you awaken to the power you have, you begin to flex the muscles of your courage. Then you can dream bravely: letting go of your limiting beliefs and pushing past your fears. You can start to come up with a truly original dream that germinates in your soul and bears fruit in your life. — Alberto Villoldo

Don't ever let others impose their self-limiting beliefs on to you. They don't have the courage and spirit that you do. — Miya Yamanouchi

It's not hard to create self-beliefs that produce a successful and happy life. The main job is to unlearn your limiting beliefs. — Maddy Malhotra

The thoughts and beliefs that you repeat in your mind when you are experiencing a negative situation become your reality. Your subconscious will make sure these limiting thoughts and beliefs are manifested. — Maddy Malhotra

Since a leader cannot rise above his thinking, he must assault his limiting beliefs daily thru reading, listening & associating. — Orrin Woodward

All too often we're filled with negative and limiting beliefs. We're filled with doubt. We're filled with guilt or with a sense of unworthiness. We have a lot of assumptions about the way the world is that are actually wrong. — Jack Canfield

What you believe your future holds for you impacts your attitude, decisions and success. — Maddy Malhotra

Not limiting your beliefs opens pathways to infinite potential. — Steven Redhead

Courage is your natural setting. You do not need to become courageous, but rather peel back the layers of self-protective, limiting beliefs that keep you small. — Vironika Tugaleva

Even if they all have the same desire to succeed, create beautiful marketing materials and do similar things, it's the ones with the proper mindsets who will succeed. The ones who kick ass are the ones who can see themselves kicking ass, who truly believe in themselves and what they're selling, who remind themselves how much they want to better people's lives with their coaching, who are excited to get compensated for selling it and have no limiting, subconscious beliefs holding them back. The ones who feel weird or who worry that they're being pushy and annoying or who subconsciously believe that they don't deserve to or can't succeed - they're not gonna do so good. — Jen Sincero

Over time, we amass limiting beliefs about how life supposedly is - beliefs that are not valid. Then we allow these limiting beliefs to stop us from fully living our happiest lives. — Karen Salmansohn

Overcoming one of my limiting beliefs, "girls are not as strong as men, therefore we cannot attempt the same physical challenges." I can tell you, with all certainty, this is not true. I have accomplished things on skis no one thought were physically possible for females. — Lynsey Dyer

Limiting beliefs lead to limiting thoughts.
Limiting thoughts lead to limiting actions.
Change your beliefs and watch your actions change. — Charles F. Glassman

At the core of One Spirit Medicine is the idea that how we perceive the world 'out there' is a projection of internal maps that shape our beliefs and guide how we think, feel and behave. These maps are the unconscious programs that drive our experience of life and the state of our health. The key to optimum health is to upgrade these unconscious maps and limiting beliefs that have been driving us to a toxic lifestyle and relationships. — Alberto Villoldo

Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response to our family and childhood experiences, and they become rooted in the subconscious ... we have the ability to take action to override it ... — Lauren Mackler

If there is something you think you can do well, perfect the action. — Stephen Richards

Effective coaching builds awareness and removes the excuses. Coaching will help you replace those excuses and limiting beliefs with empowering dreams, and boost your self-confidence. Coaching can help you identify your values, discover your "why," set goals, increase your self-esteem, and find a balance in life and business. — Farshad Asl

You have the power in the present moment to change limiting beliefs and consciously plant the seeds for the future of your choosing. As you change your mind, you change your experience. — Serge King

Limiting beliefs are a virus of the mind. They decline your success and happiness. — Maddy Malhotra

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency
the belief that the here and now is all there is. — Allan Bloom

We speak about losing our minds as if it is a bad thing. I say, lose your mind. Do it purposefully. Find out who you really are beyond your thoughts and beliefs. Lose your mind, find your soul. — Vironika Tugaleva

Most of your struggles with managing your time are due to the self- limiting beliefs. Change your Mindset and you will be able to do lot more in lot less time — Vivek Naik

The more you stay with and/or complain about a toxic person, the more you're merely delaying doing the important inner work you need to do - to heal your wounds, expand your limiting beliefs, and show yourself far more love and respect. — Karen Salmansohn

Never let the limitations or insecurities of others limit what is possible for you. — Hal Elrod

Unhappiness is a warped and distorted perception of reality. When a man says he is unhappy with his life and gives a written list of why he is dissatisfied, he has given a frank account of the state of his mind. If his mind is neglected and starved from stillness of thought, the nature of his thinking will reflect turbulence, anxiety and a lack of fulfilment.
However, when he is able to transcend thought, by being the observer (the witness) of his thinking and can take control of his mind, tranquility begins to flow through him. He is no longer a slave to his mental concepts, distinctions and limiting beliefs. — Christopher Dines

I couldn't trust my own emotions. Which emotional reactions were justified, if any? And which ones were tainted by the mental illness of BPD? I found myself fiercely guarding and limiting my emotional reactions, chastising myself for possible distortions and motivations. People who had known me years ago would barely recognize me now. I had become quiet and withdrawn in social settings, no longer the life of the party. After all, how could I know if my boisterous humor were spontaneous or just a borderline desire to be the center of attention? I could no longer trust any of my heart felt beliefs and opinions on politics, religion, or life. The debate queen had withered. I found myself looking at every single side of an issue unable to come to any conclusions for fear they might be tainted. My lifelong ability to be assertive had turned into a constant state of passivity. — Rachel Reiland

Science is proving it now and the old spiritual books said it centuries ago that negative thoughts are the primary source of all the internal and external diseases/illnesses! — Maddy Malhotra

I'm not interested in your limiting beliefs, i'm interested in what makes you limitless. — Brendon Burchard

God never said that you will live an average or unfulfilled life. You and the people who programmed your mind 'assumed' your worth, ability and deservingness. You have the same brains and ability like the most successful ones have. Only the circumstances are different and I can assure you that your circumstances are not the worst. — Maddy Malhotra

Identify and replace any limiting deep-rooted beliefs that are like a solid mental prison, including thoughts like, 'I'm not worthy,' 'I can't do this,' 'I'm too old to start,' 'I don't have the qualification or skills to become a better person,' 'I'm always the unlucky one,' 'I have nothing to give/say or contribute — Archibald Marwizi

You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights. — Brian Tracy

The root of my restaurant reality was the fearful thought: I'll never be good enough. My mind loves me so much that it wants to protect me from this reality so it gives me limiting beliefs of things I have to do to avoid experiencing the pain of my fearful thought. Those limiting beliefs cause bad feelings inside me because they are based on fear and those feelings manifest into my hot mess of a dining experience. — Lloyd Burnett

If you accept a limiting belief, then it will become a truth for you. — Louise Hay

When you look in the mirror and say, 'I love you,' don't worry if you don't believe it yet. Love is far more powerful than your limiting beliefs. — Cheryl Richardson

One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs. — Nathaniel Branden

People with a poverty mindset remain poor and usually it is because of the fears in their mind. They tie up their energy in with the lack of money. — Hina Hashmi

If you think you're worthless, you're not - but your limiting self-beliefs are. Change them. — Maddy Malhotra

Our beliefs about our abilities and the capabilities we have are usually the limiting reactants in the chain reaction of our lives. — Nana Awere Damoah

Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states. Use your body as a tool to snap yourself into a place of sheer will, determination, and commitment. Face your challenges head on with the core belief that problems are just speed bumps on the road to your dreams. And from that place, when you take massive action - with an effective and proven strategy - you will rewrite your history. — Anthony Robbins

We are born perfect, full of love, potential, self-faith and brilliance. But from the moment we are born, we begin to walk away from our authentic nature and take on the false beliefs, limiting assumptions and fears of the world around us. — Robin S. Sharma

It is our interpretation of the past, our limiting beliefs, and our undigested pain that stop us from being able to move forward with clear direction. — Debbie Ford

In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this is. We can touch with great compassion the pain from the contracted identities that we and others have created in the world. — Jack Kornfield

Become aware of your beliefs and automatic default settings. Bring them into the light of your present, adult knowledge. Gently acknowledge that they are what they are. Then accept that they constitute what you've believed until now, and that you can transform them into beliefs that allow you to fully express who you really are. Without judgment, patiently begin working to change subconscious and limiting beliefs into true expressions of your authentic self. — Sue Thoele

Dialogue is about freeing human beings from the beliefs and attitudes that make human beings miserable. — Oli Anderson

Instead of focusing on isolated objects and events, we can expand our fixed perspective and allow the deeper process (often taking the form of a mythic narrative of some sort) that is animating events to reveal itself. Instead of superimposing our limiting ideas and beliefs onto the waking dream, we can allow life to show its dreamlike nature to us. — Paul Levy

Limiting beliefs and thoughts are created in the mind. These mental blocks must be cleared to be happy. Only then the loving wisdom of the soul will open. — Hina Hashmi

Nothing restricts your success more than your limiting self-beliefs and fears. — Maddy Malhotra

We set our own limits on love. Some of us bind our hearts like Chinese women bind their feet. The binding is painful at first but eventually you get used to it and the pain goes away. The saddest part of all is that by binding yourself to the choices you make, you forget that there was ever another way to live. — Kate McGahan

The most powerful tool you have is your mind, which is a gift from God. Use it to question your limiting beliefs, use it to understand yourself, and use it to love yourself the way a loving mother loves her child. — Cynthia Belmer

All it takes is one person in any generation to heal a family's limiting beliefs. — Gregg Braden

You don't know who you are; you just know what they've told you about who you are! — Maddy Malhotra

One of the first things I do with people is help them figure out what their limiting beliefs are and then encourage them to question, "Well, do I really want to keep that one? Is it limiting me? Does it not fit me? Is it holding me back?" — Deborah King

They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU. — Hal Elrod

There are those who will resent you for not being confined by their limitations. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

The only limits you have are the limits you believe. — Wayne Dyer

We have a lot of limiting beliefs that we're not even conscious of. Maybe your family taught you you weren't good enough or you weren't smart enough. Perhaps we're taught that this religion is good and all other religions are bad. It's endless. — Deborah King

You are only as limited as your beliefs. — Jennifer Ho-Dougatz

Do the uncomfortable. Become comfortable with these acts. Prove to yourself that your limiting beliefs die a quick death if you will simply do what you feel uncomfortable doing. — Darren Rowse

Don't be a slave to your limiting beliefs. It's your mind, so take control of it today. Stop following the beliefs that don't help you. Create empowering beliefs that will serve you better. — Maddy Malhotra

Are you a clairvoyant? A fortune-teller? If not, why anticipate the worst for yourself? Past does not equal the future, so why not think big and positive? — Maddy Malhotra

Doubt, fear, and hesitation are enemies of the mind, for a weak will severs our inborn connection with the universe, dampens the faith with which we are able to join our will to it. — Stephen Richards