Limits Quotes

He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Lance Armstrong pushes the envelope in terms of the human experience. You can have a personal best, you can push your own envelope. For Lance, the person pushing him is him. The only person he's competing with, I think, is himself. To push that limit to the next step. There's a lot to learn from him. Lots.

A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.

Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.

Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.

If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.

I think, too, that we've got to recognize that where the preservation of a natural resource like the redwoods is concerned, that there is a common sense limit. I mean, if you've looked at a hundred thousand acres or so of trees-you know, a tree is a tree, how many more do you need to look at?Opposing expansion of Redwood National Park.

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

I play better tennis because the court is there.

Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.

I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.

In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

Resist Impulses to Label Yourself with Descriptions that Limit You in Any Way.

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.

Are there no more worlds that I might conquer?

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Imitation cannot go above its model.

Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.

The sky is no bigger than the mouth of the well.

It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.

If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.

Belief in limits creates limited people

Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.

There is nothing that art cannot express.

Beliefs are either the keys to your freedom,Or they can also become the giant locks to the prisonThat keeps you from achieving what you want.

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

If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter.

...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

The only reason we don’t have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can’t have them.

Generosity should never exceed ability.

The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.

He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.

There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.

It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.

Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.

You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows...and has always known...that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.

The Edge...There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others-the living-are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there.

I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none

Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement.

There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets you fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet.

One has to know the size of one's stomach.

As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.

The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to exaggerate it. The actual height and breadth of a mountain or a waterfall are always ridiculously small; they are the imagined only that content us.