Best 1021 quotes in «limits quotes» category

Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough roads, continually signaling to clear the way and keeping a watchful on the speedometer to see that you do not exceed the speed limit and provoke the wrath of the bicycle policeman or the covetous constable.

Everyone is acting from his own level of consciousness. This is all we can ask of ourselves or anyone else. However hurtful someone is, he is doing the best he can, given the limits of his consciousness.

Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

Every religion has its dignity ... in freedom of expression there are limits.

Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium

Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.

Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

Failure isn't something to be embarrassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Fear is just an idea in the mind that limits you. You cannot become enlightened if you are afraid, nor can you become happy.

Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality

Film recognizes neither time nor space, only the limits of man's imagination

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second.

Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation.

For any truth, if “overdone” (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its actual applicability, can be reduced to an absurdity, and is even bound to become an absurdity under these conditions.

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.

For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless.

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

For our daughters and our granddaughters now, the sky is the limit.

God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

God's love is unbounded. It has no limits.

Go for the impossible. I always tried to find my own limits. So far I did not find them, so my universe is in constant expansion.

Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.

Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Given their unusual privilege, Western intellectuals can realistically accomplish a great deal. The limits are imposed by will more than objective circumstances. And about human will predictions are without value.

God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.

God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.

He is a pandit (man of knowledge) who speaks what is suitable to the occasion, who renders loving service according to his ability, and who knows the limits of his anger.

Here at the quiet limit of the world.

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

His judgments are just; His mercy without limit; His power to compensate beyond any earthly comparison.

How to manage a project: Limit it in scope. Make it simple. Get success. Then iterate.

How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.

I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.

I am not interested in repetition. I don't want to reach the point from where I wouldn't know how to go further. It's good to set limits for oneself, but there comes a moment when we must destroy what we have constructed.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his 'limits' of fully 'realizing' his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and choked of it, is infinitely the ghastliest, commonest, and most inclusive of all the crimes of which the human world can assure itself.

I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.

I can't control what everyone else swims but if all goes well I know there are no limits.

I'd always had an interest of pushing my limits and was intrigued by endurance.

I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.