Limits Quotes

With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary—the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.

~ Edwin Powell Hubble

The only fear that builds character, is the fear of God.

~ Anthony Liccione

Don't try to give me a limited amount of choices. I make my own.

~ Maria Noor

Better to choose a limit capriciously than to have none.

~ Thomas Hardy

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

~ Anonymous

By choice or by chance, we must actively test our limits to know our capabilities.

~ Marian Deegan

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~ Ana Claudia Antunes

...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.

~ Immanuel Kant

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

~ John Anthony West

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.

~ John Dewey

If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else.

~ Thomas Ligotti

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

~ Bidemi Mark-Mordi

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.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back, complained about everything, insulted their wife or were insulted by her, felt wretched, but were, nonetheless, tightly bound to their own unhappiness, not realizing that all it would take was a single gesture, a final goodbye, to free them from that oppression.

~ Paulo Coelho

[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.)

~ Osborne Reynolds

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.

~ Joshua Rothman

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.

~ Christine Morgan

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.

~ Diet Eman

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

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Those who do not succeed do not believe in their ability to exercise the potential power to forge beyond perceptions of limitations.

~ T.f. Hodge

The conquered roam free in the box of insanity.

~ T.f. Hodge

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

~ Sara Keddar

Shasta's heart fainted at these words for he felt he had no strength left. And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

~ C.s. Lewis

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

~ Manoj Arora

For god sake, don't put limits on your life. Do what you want, work on what you want and don't listen to people - which haven't succeeded what you want to succeed.

~ Deyth Banger

Used to keep my thinking in a box , I realized it was confining Broke it down decided I was more than the limits others placed on me~bns

~ Bluenscottish

Nothing limits you like not knowing your limitations.

~ Tom Hayes

Limits are always extended, never broken.

~ Raheel Farooq

Ignorance is a limitation.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It's easy to forget that anything is possible with these guys. That there really are no limits.

~ Kevin Dutton

No one recognizes me. And I hope that I can always go out without being recognized. Maybe that limits you in some way but I like to be able to pull my hair back in a ponytail and get groceries without anyone noticing.

~ Susanna Thompson

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.

~ Bruce Lee

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

I'm always working. I don't really set limits. I tend to go in bursts. And in between, I'm doing my taxes, answering the phone, and all those kinds of things. I waste a lot of time. Computers take a lot of time. I love computers.

~ Richard Dooling

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

~ Mike Krzyzewski

Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.

~ Lech Walesa

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

~ George Jackson

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

~ Holbrook Jackson