Best 1021 quotes in «limits quotes» category

When you choose to have limits, you limit yourself for growth, knowledge and experience.” – James D. Wilson

When you make limits to yourself, you're not yourself anymore.

When you push yourself beyond limits, you discover inner reserves, which you never thought existed earlier.

When you put limits on yourself, you become unhappy! And your belief mostly puts limits on yourself; it puts limits on your clothes, on your thoughts, on your actions! Free yourself from such artificial limits! Otherwise you will feel a deep unhappiness inside you when you see a free person!

When you respect your limits, other will learn to respect them too.

The real trouble is this: giving expression to thought by the observable medium of words is like the work of the silkworm. In being made into silk, the material achieves its value. But in the light of day it stiffens; it becomes something alien, no longer malleable. True, we can then more easily and freely recall the same thought, but perhaps we can never experience it again in its original freshness.

There's a limit to laziness. We still haven't found it yet.

There's something about a boy who isn't allowed to wander off. There's something about a boy in a sky who has limits.

The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It's then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives. No excuses!

The sky is not the limit. You are your limits. Break them today!” – Manos Filippou, Author

The topics which language limits us to aren’t much worth discussing in the first place. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

The true value of man is shown when with all freedom possible, he sets himself limits.

The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.

The world will never know you because you did not cross the limits of yourself

Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. They do not learn this by learning. They do not work it by working. They do not reason it by using reason. To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven. —Chuang Tse: XXIII

[To] mechanical progress there is apparently no end: for as in the past so in the future, each step in any direction will remove limits and bring in past barriers which have till then blocked the way in other directions; and so what for the time may appear to be a visible or practical limit will turn out to be but a bend in the road. (Opening address to the Mechanical Science Section, Meeting of the British Association, Manchester.)

Via your talents, you can go beyond the limits!

We are designed boundaryless and limitless in what we can achieve. Unfortunately, we are also skillful in building boundaries and limits...

We are so scared to fail that we fail to try, we are so fearful of being seen that we hide our heart behind a fake smile, we are so anxious of change that we close the door to it…and yet all these thoughts and emotions can be used as tools to reinforce our strength and individual impact upon the world. We move toward an enlightened way of being when we guide ourselves from a place of lack toward a place of fullness, and from a place of comfort to a place of growth.

We have to live within the framework of our limitations and the mistakes we make. Argue with Destiny, but never try to wrestle it into submission. If you do, you’ll end up losing.

With most people in my life, I come to the end of myself pretty fast. I walk to my borders--where there's dinner on a dropleaf table, maybe small talk or sex--then wave politely and turn back.

Yes, I've endured so much, and you seem to think this means I will endure anything. It does not.

We're obliged to acknowledge the limits of reason; and to acknowledge the necessary reality of the realms to which reason has no access.

You can always live extraordinary live. You are born to reach your full potential. The only limit is yourself.

You can only exceed your limits if you’ve discovered them.

You can only take too much in pursuit of something you don't really want.

Your limits limit your life!

Your limits may appear as brick walls blocking the path to your dreams but if you have the courage to push your limits you will find that they are delicate curtains that move aside at a single touch. Limitations are but false images created in fear and defeated through bravery. Be brave.

Your only limitations are those that you impose upon yourself

You were born unique. Do not let the world make you conform to the limitations present in the prevailing winds of thought. Be the unique breeze with no limits or destination and keep on flowing!

A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city.

A coach is someone that sees beyond your limits and guides you to greatness!

A cosmology that admits of only one male god limits women’s capacity to envision their full potential as human beings.

A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.

Affirm: I place no limits and no restrictions on all that I intend to accomplish and become from here on in.

A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits.

A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison.

Age cannot limit him, nor use exhaust his infinite mendacity.

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.

A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. A coach helps you measure your performance against your strengths instead of against someone else's. A coach will know what you are capable of and will push you to your limit.

Ain't no boundaries, ain't no limits.

With limited money you can survive, with more money you can live.

You have the power within your reach to create what you desire.

You humans are so good at ignoring things. You are almost blind and almost deaf. You look at a tree and see…just a tree, a stiff weed. You don’t see its history, feel the pumping of the sap, hear every insect in the bark, sense the chemistry of the leaves, notice the hundred shades of green, the tiny movements to follow the sun, the subtle growth of wood...

You'll never find your limits until you've gone too far.

You limit yourself by reducing the number of viewpoints you see.

Your beliefs set your limits.

All marriages have a time limit if you enter them for the wrong reasons. Marriage doesn't get easier...it only gets harder. If you marry someone hoping it will improve things, you might as well set your timer the second you say, 'I do.

A lot of the experiences I write about could be described as grasping for boundaries, trying to find the limits of things.

Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and the judiciary assume, and exercise, countless powers they aren't entitled to.