Best 1021 quotes in «limits quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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'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.

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

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

He lives well who lives retired, and keeps His wants within the limits of his means.

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.

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

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

He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.

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.

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.

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

I always believe that the sky is the beginning of the limit.

I always say the only limitations are in your mind, and if you don't buy into those limits, you can do a helluva lot more than you imagine.

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 a patriot, and I protest speed limits by exceeding them.

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.

Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

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 can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.

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.