Best 1021 quotes in «limits quotes» category

Logic has been place upon us to keep our minds controlled by rules and limitations.

Make your book of life a musical. Never abandon obligations, but have fun leaving behind a colorful legacy. Never allow anybody to be the composer of your own destiny. Take control of your life, and never allow limitations implanted by society tell you how your music is supposed to sound — or how your book is supposed to be written.

Many like to suffer, and for some, suffering can be a kind of artistic expression that challenges people and defies them with their limits, and, so, pain can be a shot to recognize the architecture and the workings of their being. (“ Rooting, hogging or... dying”)

Never cross the limits of any matter. You will harm, not only yourself, but you will also lose your motives and trust.

My limits know me well enough to stay out of my way.

Never let the weight of challenges and the duration of your dreams scare you to give up.

Meditation is cultivating the potential to transcend your limited self, limited beliefs and limited existence. It is stepping into the exciting territory of limitlessness.

No guardrails stood between the road and oblivion.

Nothing is ever black and white, Nila. You should know that bu now. Its all how you survive the grey." -Kes

Not only to myself or before the mirror or at the hour of my death, which I hope will be long in coming, but in the presence of my children and my wife and in the face of the peaceful life I’m building, I must acknowledge: (1) That under Stalin I wouldn’t have wasted my youth in the gulag or ended up with a bullet in the back of my head. (2) That in the McCarthy era I wouldn’t have lost my job or had to pump gas at a gas station. (3) That under Hitler, however, I would have been one of those who chose the path of exile, and that under Franco I wouldn’t have composed sonnets to the caudillo or the Holy Virgin like so many lifelong democrats. One thing is as true as the other. My bravery has its limits, certainly, but so does what I’m willing to swallow. Everything that begins as comedy ends as tragicomedy.

Nje ya uwezo wa kisheria ni shetani.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately. A man is a lonely thing.

No sound is more ominous than the silence of a patient man.

Nothing limits you like not knowing your limitations.

Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.

Our problem as Americans -- at least, among my race and gender -- is that we resist the very idea of limits, regarding limits of all sorts as temporary and regrettable impositions on our lives.

Possibility is everything that has ever happened. The purpose of science is to find out where the limits of possibility end. When we have achieved that — and we shall — there will be no more magic, no more superstition, there will just be what is. Once it was impossible that this globe we are on wasn't flat. It is not for science — and certainly not for medicine — to flatter our expectations of Nature. Quite the opposite.

Perfection only limits us. Our imperfection makes us limitless. We have infinite opportunity to grow and expand, a power which we do not find in perfection. Let the fact that you are limitless empower you, not hold you down.

Riches begin in the form of thought! The amount is limited only by the person in whose mind the thought is put into motion. Faith removes limitations!

One of the ironies of college is that the impossibility of reading your way out of the modern predicament is something you learn about, as a student, by reading. Part of the value of a humanistic education has to do with a consciousness of, and a familiarity with, the limits that you’ll spend the rest of your life talking about and pushing against.

Rosalie had never been one to question or accuse, just to forgive -- but I guess everyone had their limits when it came to tolerance levels, and I’d crossed the line.

Rise above the limits they set for you.

Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else; it'll spread over into the rest of your life. It'll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being... There are NO limits. There are plateus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.

...Reason should take on anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely, that of self-knowledge, and to institute a court of justice, by which reason may secure its rightful claims while dismissing all its groundless pretensions, and this not by mere decrees but according to its own eternal and unchangeable laws; and this court is none other than the critique of pure reason itself.

Science fiction has no ceiling.

Shatter the limits in your mind and you shatter the limits in your life.

Set Goals, not Limits.

Since life comes just once, I encourage you to give it your best shot. I dare you to maximize your life.

She didn't realize she was in a prison until she collided with the bars.

Sometimes, humans reach a certain point of endurance at which they snap. At that moment in the evening, I snapped.

Setting boundaries is a way of caring for myself. It doesn't make me mean, selfish, or uncaring because I don't do things your way. I care about me too.

That time is not a limiter. Set a strong intention, and the time will present itself.

That was one other time when my whole body reacted to the fear and went out of my own control. My nerves came apart completely, and I started vomiting and vomiting. I couldn't stop. It had been such a narrow escape. I kept telling myself that I could take all of the pressure; but there were those times that my body seemed almost to shut itself down, to scream that what was happening was just too much.

The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom.

Stretch imagination to the limit. If you go too far, you can always come back.

The bounds of human possibility are not as confining as we think they are; they are made to seem to be tight by our weaknesses, our vices, our prejudices that confine them.

The choice to lead is nurtured by the willingness to rise above challenges of life.

The curious fact is that biology tells us nothing about desire. And, when you think about it, culture -- novels, movies, opera, and quite a lot of painting -- is about desire, how we manage desire, how we suffer from it, and how it brings us joy when we get things right. A story without desire -- and that means without the insistence of desire -- will be empty, dry, and more or less aimless. That is one reason we read novels, to see how people fall into awkward moral situations and then try to extricate themselves. This is why there is so much anguish in the world: frustrated desire is every bit as miserable as poverty, because desire is no respecter of one’s position in life: everyone goes through it.

Step beyond the scopes and limits because a narrow minded person has such boundaries of thinking “I cannot , but I must

The difference between ideas and resources is that resources has its limits.

The era without limits begins, when; The vision awakens. And the journal jumps.

The gospel of becoming a good believer limits the pursuit of God

The far we can see, we are! It is time we lifted our eyes beyond the horizon of our present boundaries and see goodies ahead of us.

The heart sometimes doesn’t care about limits.

The individuals that will stand or speak or act for the sake of the society must be the kind of people that do not accept limitation.

The intellect cannot laugh, it can only dissect.

The human spirit is like an elastic band. The more you stretch, the greater your capacity.

The limits that we see are actually the negative thoughts of apprehension, anxiety and uncertainty that we have burdened with ourselves.

The limits of my body are the limits of my world.

The mind which relate clover with eminence, why forget to relate limitations with human ambitions.