Limitations Quotes

It would be indeed unusual if it turned out that the set of orders that our mind is able to construct and accept, having as it does a deep sense of “understanding the essence of things,” matches precisely the set of all possible orders to be detected in the Universe as a whole. We should admit that this is not impossible, yet it does seem highly improbable. This way of thinking, so modest in its assessment of our abilities, is probably the only way recommended, given our lack of knowledge, because we are not aware of our limitations.

~ Stanisław Lem

The question I'm most commonly asked is Why? A more pertinent question might be, why is it that more people don't attempt to escape the limitations imposed upon them? If Tracks has a message at all, it is that one can be awake to the demand for obedience that seems natural simply because it is familiar. Wherever there is pressure to conform (one person's conformity is often in the interests of another person's power), there is a requirement to resist. Of course I did not mean that people should drop what they were doing and head for the wilder places, certainly not that they should copy what I did. I meant that one can choose adventure in the most ordinary of circumstances. Adventure of the mind, or to use an old-fashioned word, the spirit.

~ Robyn Davidson

Don't let reality, get in way of your dreams.

~ Anthony Liccione

There are lots of opportunities in limitations, but it takes a positive mindset to recognize them.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leadership is about making and maintaining a positive change. True leaders do not conform to the limits of the environments they stay in, the transform it positively!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Great sex is all about freedom and being everything you’ve always wanted to be. Know now that the only limits you have in regards to your own sexuality are the ones you impose on yourself.

~ Roberto Hogue

The only limit to the realisation of our goals will be lack of enthusiasm.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Kids are naturally curious about the world around them. Everything is fascinating and holds their attention as they explore their new surroundings. Adults however, have grown up hearing the word ‘no’, ‘don't do that,’ and ‘quit daydreaming so often, they create their own little world, a world with lots of limitations. What then do most adults teach to their children? ‘No’, ‘don't do that,’ and ‘quit daydreaming.’ So, what can you learn from a child today…?

~ James A. Murphy

He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and to her God. He has endeavored in every way that he could to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life.

~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

~ Joyce Rachelle

Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit.

~ Joyce Rachelle

The promise of hope provides more comfort than the limitations of doubt.

~ T.f. Hodge

The number of ways you can live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourself?

~ Suzy Kassem

There are two types of limitations: those others place on us, and those we place on ourselves. One is more subtle. Both are equally dangerous.

~ Andrena Sawyer

The way to get over creative block is to simply place some constraints on yourself. It seems contradictory, but when it comes to creative work, limitations mean freedom.

~ Austin Kleon

...the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

~ Jonah Lehrer

You can actually overcome all the limitations of life and achieve your dreams, if you don't give up too early.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with false modesty.

~ Anne Mccaffrey

You are only as limited as your beliefs.

~ Jennifer Ho-Dougatz

Your limitations are largely programming instilled by others that you choose to believe.

~ Gary Hopkins

Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Prayer is knowing that what I ask for is always far bigger than what I could ever articulate, but it is never too big for God to understand nor is it ever too vast for Him to deliver.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The only thing limiting you is yourself.

~ Ken Poirot

it's always good to know that you have been the best even though deep inside you know you will never be better than that.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.

~ Raheel Farooq

She had told Kazan that she was bored with the roles she was playing because so many of them had been basically the same kind of empty-headed characterization. She wanted nothing ore than to challenge herself with more complex parts--and also wanted others to think of her as being more than a caricature....Anytime she had an opportunity to broaden her mind, she wanted to take advantage of it.

~ J. Randy Taraborrelli

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

~ Banani Ray

Relationships should have some limitations, because without limitations one cannot maintain his respect and love.

~ Faisal Nawaz Maitlo

In some mysterious way, in all his brokenness, he reveals to us our own brokenness, our difficulties in loving, our barriers and hardness of heart. If he is so broken and so hurt and yet is still such a source of life, then I, too, am allowed to look at my own brokenness and to trust that I, too, can give life to others. I do not have to pretend that I am better than others and that I have to win in all the competitions. It’s okay to be myself, just as I am, in my uniqueness. That, of course, is a very healing and liberating experience. I am allowed to be myself, with all my psychological and physical wounds, with all my limitations but with all my gifts too. And I can trust that I am loved just as I am, and that I, too, can love and grow.

~ Rick Santorum

Purge everything that's holding you back. Whatever it is you feel you are being deprived of, trust the limitation serves to bring you more of what you want.

~ Holly Lynn Payne

Love transports mortal beings to the existential plane of spiritual eternity transcending the emotional, mental, and physical limitations of an inaccurately perceived finite existence.

~ Ken Poirot

Imagine our imaginations were limited only to the limitless. Still, it wouldn't matter without a motivation to move.

~ Ryan Lilly

Think outside the box; if possible, think as if there is no box. Aim high, above the ceilings; aim as if no ceiling can limit you. Dream big!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You will rise above all limitations once you begin to live life with the right attitude. People who fail and fall are the people who see difficulties in every opportunity and call it impossibility. Rise up!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

No one on earth is functionless. The problem we usually have is that functions of people are being displayed in the wrong positions! Change position!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

There are no more ceilings over my dreams... They have no limit, they limitless! They are extra-large!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You may have been born on the rubbish damp. But be careful not to believe that the rubbish damp was born in you! Your environment may try to set conditions that may attempt their fingers on crippling you. But you got to stand and say I thank you Lord that I am rising against and above my limitations

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Worlds of my own creation are erected with walls that are within but a few scant paces of each other. The world that God creates for me has no idea what walls are.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We all have limitations. They are worth befriending. They teach us a lot. They can show us what we most need to pay attention to and honor. They become our cutting edge for learning and growing and gentling ourselves into the present moment as it is.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

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.

~ Parker J. Palmer