Shatter Your Limits Quotes
Most limits are agreements you never had to sign. The man who pushes past what feels possible discovers the line was never where he was told. This Potential path holds the greatest quotes ever gathered on breaking through your ceiling. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“The road to success has no speed limit.”
“One finds limits by pushing them.”
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
“Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.”
“The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.”
“No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.”
“Only the mediocre are always at their best.”
“Limitations are for people that have them and excuses are for people that need them.”
“The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.”
“Who you are becoming is more important than what you are accumulating.”
“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”
“Success always demands a greater effort.”
“You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.”
“Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.”
“Every day is a chance to improve”
“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.”
“Good enough never is.”
“The mind has no limitations except those which conflict with the laws of nature.”
“I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary”
“Don't go through life, grow through life.”
“The only limits in life are the ones you make.”
“Whatever you do, don't play it safe. Don't do things the way they've always been done. Don't try to fit the system. If you do what's expected of you, you'll never accomplish more than others expect.”
“Your potential is limited only by your imagination and your willingness to act”
“Think of discomfort as currency, it's the price you pay to learn some pretty crucial things.”
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.”
“Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results.”
“Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.”
“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”
“The most dangerous place is in your safety zone.”
“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”
“It's never too late to be who you might have been.”
“There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.”
“Limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.”
“Self-actualization is the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming.”
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
“The more you go to your limits, the more your limits will expand.”
“The minute you're satisfied with where you are, you aren't there anymore.”
“I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.”
“There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.”
“When you're through changing, you're through.”
“Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.”
“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.”
“The main difference you'll usually find between you and someone you envy is that you settle for less.”
“The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself.”
“If you're not failing, you're not pushing your limits, and if you're not pushing your limits, you're not maximizing your potential.”
“The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.”
“You will either step forward into growth, or you will step back into safety.”
“Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.”
“It is only as I let go of the lesser that I can take hold of the greater, only as I drop confusion that I can entertain peace, only as I transcend doubt and fear that I can be lifted to the hilltops of inner life.”
“If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.”
“Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.”
“Have a healthy disregard for the impossible”
“It is not what we get, but who we become, and what we contribute that gives meaning to our lives.”
“Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.”
“The comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.”
“If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.”
“You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.”
“Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.”
“If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.”
“It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.”
“There is a direct correlation between an increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.”
“What you have done is nothing compared to what you can do.”
“Don't compare to others. Compare to how you progressed.”
“Nothing ever gets easier. You just get stronger.”
“Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.”
“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
“As long as you believe it is impossible, you will never find out if it is possible or not.”
“Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.”
“In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”
“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.”
“There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there - you must go beyond them.”
“Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.”
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
“If you want to be extraordinary, you have to stop being ordinary.”
“It's never too late to be great.”
“The only limits you have are the limits you believe.”
“The paradox of learning is that to get better, you need to go outside your comfort zone, and thus feel worse. The people who grow continuously, thus feel consistently over their heads.”
“A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.”
“I always have a comfortable feeling that nothing is impossible if one applies a certain amount of energy in the right direction.”
“Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.”
“The joy of being something and knowing you are advancing is the greatest of all joys possible.”
“We don't want acceptable; we want exceptional.”
“Average is a failing formula.”
“Every next level of your life will demand a different you.”
“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
“Becoming is better than being.”
“It takes true strength of character to redefine your limits by pushing past them.”
“The walls of your comfort zone are lovingly decorated with your lifelong collection of favorite excuses.”
“The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best!”
“There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can.”
“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to; others only need one reason why they can. Which are you?”
“Do the best that you can until you know better, then when you know better, do better.”
“We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible.”
“You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life.”
“If you put a limit on anything, you put a limit on how far you can go. The more you use your imagination, the faster you go. If you think about doing the unthinkable, you can.”
“If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.”
“If you're good enough, there are no precedents.”
“There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is being superior to your previous self.”
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.”
“I get excited by being told it's not been done before or it's not possible. Why? Let's find a different way to do it and let's do it.”
“Never mind what others do; do better than yourself - beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.”
“If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.”
“Settling for good can prevent you from achieving greatness.”
“It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.”
“You can't fear what you haven't figured out yet, and sometimes naivete can be the best business strategy of all.”
“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.”
“Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.”
“The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
“Belief in limitation is the one and only thing that causes limitation.”
“When you change what you believe is possible, you change what becomes possible.”
“You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.”
“The purpose of life for man is growth.”
“Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds.”
“Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.”
“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
“Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy.”
“The biggest growth happens when you step outside your comfort zone. That's when you win the biggest matches and make significant achievements.”
“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”
“If you're not doing some things that are crazy, then you're doing the wrong things”
“Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion.”
“Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.”
“I think I was very naive early on, but that also meant I didn't know what couldn't be done.”
“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”
“We must train from the inside out. Using our strengths to attack and nullify any weaknesses. It's not about denying a weakness may exist but about denying its right to persist.”
“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.”
“He who stops being better stops being good.”
“The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.”
“Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.”
“You are rewarding the teacher poorly if you always remain a pupil.”
“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
“You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft, that you will die without ever realizing your true potential.”
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
“The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.”
“Good is the enemy of great.”
“Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives.”
“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.”
“If you're green, you're growing. If you're ripe, you're rotting.”
“Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.”
“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”
“What we consider possible or impossible is rarely a function of our true capability.”
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
“The only limit to your success is your own imagination.”
“The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur”
“If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!”
“Make your life a masterpiece, imagine no limitations on what you can be, have, or do.”
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”
“The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.”
“To achieve something you've never had, you must do something you've never done.”
“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.”
“The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.”
“Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.”
“Life without progress is unendurable.”
“Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.”
“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
“Change is inevitable, personal growth is a choice.”
“'I can't do it' never yet accomplished anything: 'I will try' has accomplished wonders.”
“Push yourself until your limitations become your expectations.”
“All limitations are self-imposed.”
“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.”
“Growth and comfort do not coexist.”
“Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs.”
“If someone tells you you can't, they're showing you their limits, not yours.”
“Only the weak attempts to accomplish what he knows he can already achieve.”
“Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.”
“Nothing that man can think is impossible of realization.”
“The Compound Effect is the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices.”
“There is no defeat except from within. There is really no barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.”
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to have changed often.”
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