Limitations Quotes

There are those who will resent you for not being confined by their limitations.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to venture far out into the uncharted territories of my inner truth, in search of what it means to be genuine and at peace with who I really am. I have abandoned the masquerade of living up to the expectations of others and explored the new horizons of what it means to be truly and completely me, in all my amazing imperfection and most splendid insecurity.

~ Anthon St. Maarten

It can be very seductive to tell our story to others who will listen because, lets face it, who doesn't love to 'commiserate' (in this context, meaning to share their misery) with other likeminded people. It justifies our attachment to the drama. The interesting thing about telling our story over and over is that it becomes even more deeply ingrained in our minds each time we tell it, and the universe delights in keeping whatever we claim as our story alive.

~ Dennis Merritt Jones

You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

I'd always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations.

~ Gretchen Rubin

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

~ Rollo May

Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its range and compass than the understanding, I do not restrain it within the same bounds, but extend it also to things which I do not understand: and as the will is of itself indifferent to these, it easily falls into error and sin, and chooses the evil for the good, or the false for the true.

~ René Descartes

If we limit love to being nothing more than a feeling, we have no real feeling for what love is.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It's knowing one's ... limitations ... and then ignoring them.

~ Daniel Suarez

To enjoy beauty in the company of myself is to experience beauty bound by the limits of the sole person that I am. But, to experience beauty in the company of God is to experience beauty bound by the limits of Who God is, which is to experience beauty without limits.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

When you become self aware, you know your uniqueness, strengths, and limitations too. You become easy to work with others. You also avoid competing with others unhealthily.

~ Assegid Habtewold

Only through becoming aware of yourself and your limitations can you be transparent with others.

~ Joanie Connell

Authenticity is a continual process of building self-awareness, a journey through which we acknowledge both our strengths and our limitations, and come to identify a noble purpose.

~ Tom Hayes

We have been pretending for a long time to be limited beings.

~ Raphael Zernoff

Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.

~ Mencius

There is no cap to the potential within us, except when we place one on ourselves.

~ E'yen A. Gardner

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in 'measurements' when he did not know what he was measuring.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice with a summer insect - he's bound to a single season.

~ Zhuangzi

Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchw

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

The beginning of greatness starts from permitting your mental positive imagination to expand without limitations.

~ Hafiz

In order to succeed greatly without limitations, you must perceive life as a journey of endless possibilities and opportunities.

~ Hafiz

The human self also has a nature, limits as well as potentials. If you seek vocation without understanding the material you are working with, what you build with your life will be ungainly and may well put lives in peril, your own and some of those around you. 'Faking it' in the service of high values is no virtue and has nothing to do with vocation. It is an ignorant, sometimes arrogant, attempt to override one's nature, and it will always fail.

~ Parker J. Palmer

It's embarrassing when a leader is clueless about his/her limitations (blind spots) while his/her people are well aware and making fun out of them.

~ Assegid Habtewold

The Congresswoman was depressed by the fact that a woman of her standing could no longer count on making it to the rest room in time during the extensive rehabilitation that followed her shooting. Her husband, commander of a space shuttle crew, encouraged her by identifying with her limitation. Even revered astronauts, he revealed, have bodily limits and have to rely on Huggies during extended launch exercises.

~ Gabrielle Giffords

Do what you can to help people but have the wisdom to accept your limits.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Limitations can be reasonably expanded. We are constantly challenging our limitations. But a hobbled mind is not going anywhere.

~ Bryant Mcgill

If I am so terribly limited as to view my handicaps as nothing more than lamentable limitations, then I have taken some of my greatest God-given assets and completely handicapped them.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We live in a world that worships limitations

~ Tama J. Kieves

Human technology can only go as far as the limitations set by God. Daniel 12:3-4

~ Felix Wantang

When we see someone or something as imperfect, it is a reflection of our limitations, not theirs.

~ Steve Maraboli

... a practical problem can only be solved by action itself. When your practical problem is how to earn a living, a book on how to make friends and influence people cannot solve it, though it may suggest things to do. Nothing short of the doing solves the problem. It is solved only by earning a living.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother cannot keep you safe, that your tutor makes a mistake, that the wrong path must be taken because the grown-ups lack the strength to take the right one...each of those moments is the theft of your childhood, each of them a blow that kills some part of the child you were, leaving another part of the man exposed, a new creature, tougher but tempered with bitterness and disappointment.

~ Mark Lawrence

Never limit yourself to what you can't do, but to what you have the power to do with what you have.

~ Nadège Richards

No one is perfect. We all have weaknesses and limitations. Some can't be fixed. But, at least, a leader shouldn't find herself blindsided...

~ Assegid Habtewold

...But living creatures are idiosyncratic. They are created in such a way that they can actualize only what their microscopic minds wish for. The concept of limitless is bound heavily by the minor actualization of what perfection is...

~ Lionel Suggs

When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

~ V.s. Naipaul

Seeking excellence means choosing to forge your own sword to cut through the limitations of your life...

~ James A. Murphy