Best 1021 quotes in «limits quotes» category

We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.

We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a 'reality'transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any literal significance.

We should be very skeptical of people who want to place limits on how we express ourselves.

We should set goals within the limits of our resources while working to the limits of our powers.

We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property minus usury!

What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.

What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"?

What causes [fragmentation] if not a need to act that specializes us and limits us to the horizon of a particular activity? Even if it turns out to be for the general interest (which generally isn't true), the activity that subordinates each of our aspects to a specific result suppresses our being as an entirety. Whoever acts substitutes a particular end for what he or she is, as a total being.

What drives me? In every mission I'm on, the thing that drives me most is the desire to find my limits-and extend them.

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

What excites me is to know I don't have any limits, that it's quite an open project, more open than I thought it could be. To have this freedom to try very different things. I listen to lots of music from every genre.

What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.

What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we cannot allow technology to go on without public consent.

Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.

When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.

When a woman falls in love with the magnificent possibilities within herself, the forces that would limit those possibilities hold less and less sway over her.

Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.

When ego is lost, limit is lost. You become infinite, kind, beautiful.

When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.

When every aspect of your life is impeccable, then you will find that there's no limit to your journeys into the infinite.

Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.

Whenever you define who you are, you limit yourself to what you may potentially be.

When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are empty.

When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference between humans and animals: Whereas animals are usually restrained by the limits of physical appetites, humans have mental appetites that can be far more gross and capacious than physical ones. Only humans squander and hoard, murder and pillage because of notions.

When I consider what people generally want in calculating, I found that it always is a number. I also observed that every number is composed of units, and that any number may be divided into units. Moreover, I found that every number which may be expressed from one to ten, surpasses the preceding by one unit: afterwards the ten is doubled or tripled just as before the units were: thus arise twenty, thirty, etc. until a hundred: then the hundred is doubled and tripled in the same manner as the units and the tens, up to a thousand;… so forth to the utmost limit of numeration.

When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.

When I want to draw a camel I no longer limit myself, as I once did, to looking only at camels.

When government gets too big, freedom is lost. Government is supposed to be the servant. But when a government can tax the people with no limit or restraint on what the government can take, then the government has become the master.

When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which again have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation... when I consider all this... I am silent.

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to discover the laws and apply them, not inquire into their provenance.

When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain ambitions that I should not entertain. That was a problem for me because I had never thought of myself as an African woman, never thought of myself as a woman to begin with. For me the limit was my capacity, my capability.

When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.

When we hear His call and respond accordingly, there will be no limit to what God can and will do through His people. But if we do not even recognize when He is speaking, we are in trouble at the very heart of our relationship to Him.

When the restrictions you have do not limit you, this is what we mean by practice.

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual things.

When we reach the outer limit of what Scripture says, it is time to stop arguing and start worshipping.

When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.

When you have nothing to lose, the sky's the limit.

When you're training you go to the gym when it's dark, you leave when it's dark. You push your body to the limit and it really gets on top of you.

Whether you eat meat of not, you can be part of this decision to limit the meat industry destroying our planet's resources.

When you start a collection, you have to push yourself to limits that may make you uncomfortable.

Where there's love there's no limit; where there's a limit, there's no love.

When you trust and have elevated personnel in each department then the sky really is the limit.

Wherever love comes from, whatever is its genesis, it isn’t like a quantity of gold or diamonds, even water in the earth-a fixed quantity, Fos thought. You can’t use up love, deplete it at its source. Love exists beyond fixed limits. Beyond what you can see or count.

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the mercy of time. We form friendships, and grow out of them. It might almost be said that we cannot retain the faculty of friendship unless we are continually making new friends.

While it is important to maintain a balanced approach to solving our nation's energy problems, we must commit ourselves to recognize some areas as 'off limits,' and the Artic National Wildlife Reserve is a national symbol of that commitment.

Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of the human experience reaching back infinitely far is available to you?