Best 1021 quotes in «limits quotes» category

Despite the mythic heights to which he was raised, Azikiwe was nothing if not pragmatic, a realist always conscious of his limits and ever eager to extract all that was possible from that limited horizon.

Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined within specific limits and subjected to specific rules.

Does it make more sense to provide air conditioning or to limit CO2 emissions.  I vote for more air conditioning in these susceptible regions.

Donald Trump creates scapegoats in Muslims and Mexican immigrants. He calls for the use of torture. He calls for killing the innocent children and family members of terrorists. He cheers assaults on protesters. He applauds the prospect of twisting the Constitution to limit First Amendment freedom of the press. This is the very brand of anger that has led other nations into the abyss.

Do not limit the limitless God! With Him, face the future unafraid because you are never alone.

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Don't be fooled into thinking that you have the capacity to achieve your best on your own. A training partner in the gym is a great asset because when you think you have reached your limit, there is someone who can push you to go further.

Don't get bogged down by the notion of limits. There aren't any.

Don't limit yourself because you are a woman because you can do exactly the same that a guy could do.

Don't limit yourself and don't let anyone put a limit on your potential.

Don't put a limit on what can be accomplished.

Do you qualify to be alive or is the limit of your senses so as to survive?

Do your best to succeed and push the limits without violating them.

Each time I think I’ve reached a limit....there is a door....it opens....and the limit is gone.

Especially in Britain, people want to limit you.

Each of us has great gifts, but many of us severely limit ourselves with negative attitudes about our potential.

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

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

Each person needs different limits to set him or her free. Finding yours is what practice is all about.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality

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

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

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.

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.