Best 1021 quotes in «limits quotes» category

Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true.

Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits. We could also say that perfect enlightenment is realizing that we have no limits at all, and that the entire universe is alive.

Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits.

Equality means equality for all - no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.

Especially in Britain, people want to limit you.

Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, "life to the limit.

Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.

Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution. From the nature of the Constitution, ... I must approve all the parts of a bill, or reject it in toto.

Eventually the world will no longer be divided by the ideologies of 'left' and 'right' but by those who accept ecological limits and those who don't.

Everybody is blessed with a certain talent, you have to know what your talent is maximize it and push it to the limit.

Every day is a day to be thankful. Life's abundance has no limit, and gratitude is what keeps that abundance flowing. In every circumstance there is something for which to be thankful. Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope.

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its 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.

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

Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality

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

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 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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Have you ever been to Glens Falls? The city limits signs are on the same post.

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

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

He said something was unique: I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do, and see if the officials take air out of it.

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.