Limits Quotes
Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.
There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible.
I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of different movies, to be a chameleon. I don't want to limit myself.
Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency.
More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.
Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by the demands of his safety this must be done.
The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem.
Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity, and he will be free. We see no limit to what should be offered to the child, for his will be an immense field of chosen activity.
Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State.
When someone pushes you down you must get up and stand on your own two feet even if your scared to do it. Only you can set limits to your success.
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.
Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?
There are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.
I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves.
I got pulled over by a cop, and he said, 'do you know the speed limit here is 55 miles per hour?'. So I said, 'oh, that's OK, I'm not going that far.'
We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.
By choosing a woman to run for your nation's second highest office, you send a powerful signal to all Americans. There are no doors we cannot unlock. We will place no limits on achievement.
The grace of God is like insurance. It will help you in your time of need without any limit.
The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.
I have a real low tolerance for parasites, and you're so close to the limit that I'm already reaching for the flea powder.
The finest all-around performer we ever had in America was Judy Garland. There was no limit to her talent. She was the quickest, brightest person I ever worked with.
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.
The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.
The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.
Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.
The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity.
In terms of quantity, we've probably already reached the limit of what's feasible. I think a change of direction may be what's needed.
I do not claim to have perfected an art but to have commenced one, the limits of which it is not possible at present exactly to ascertain.
There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.
The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.
Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know, because you don't know everything you know.
