limitations Quotes

“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation.”

“You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch the perfect speed. And it isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.”

“He spoke of very simple things–It is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition out limitation in any form.”

“We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.”

“The moment you start thinking someone else’s gain is your loss, you limit yourself by thinking in terms of competition and shortages.”

“He was a complicated man, my father; a man of great mental capacity who was driven to succeed yet humbled into mediocrity by his own emotional limitations.”

“What our healthy feeling of shame does is let us know that we are limited. It tells us that to be human is to be limited.”

“Man is preoccupied with freedom yet laden with handicaps. The breadth of his activity and experience is narrowed by the limitations of his relatively weak, sluggish body.”

“Most birds were created to fly. Being grounded for them is a limitation within their ability to fly, not the other way around. You, on the other hand, were created to be loved. So for you to live as if you were unloved is a limitation, not the other way around.”

“The door that closed kept us from entering a room, but what now lies before us is the rest of reality.”

“It seemed unreasonable to limit everyone’s life choices based on your ancestors’ ability to help the government, but that was how it all worked out.”

“The dominance of the Circle stifles competition and is dangerous to our way of free-market capitalism.”

“I draw because words are two unpredictable . . . I draw because words are too limited.”

“Television does not extend or amplify literate culture. It attacks it.”

“The water from the holes in the lakebed could be collected only in tiny amounts. If her mother tried to boil such a small amount, the pot would be dry long before they could count to two hundred.”

“There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.”

“One who is entirely dependent upon the manual alphabet has always a sense of restraint, of narrowness.”

“He had learned that he could not devour the earth, that he must know and accept his limitations.”

“We didn’t really like to wear the veil, especially since we didn’t understand why we had to.”

“Some thought him dyslexic; certainly his comprehension was limited. Others concluded that he didn’t read because he just didn’t have to, and that in fact this was one of his key attributes as a populist. He was postliterate—total television.”

“Shallow water feels so much safer. We can both see and touch the bottom. But this apparent security also imposes limitations. Just as in Simon Peter’s case, we have to learn that the deeper water holds the fish!”

“Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.”

“God sees us from the perspective of who He created us to be, but we too often see ourselves from our limitations instead of our possibilities.”

“We had defended ourselves since memory against everything and everybody, considered all speech a code to be broken by us, and all gestures subject to careful analysis; we had become headstrong, devious, and arrogant. Nobody paid us any attention, so we paid very good attention to ourselves. Our limitations were not known to us—not then.”

“Henrietta knows her limitations, but doesn’t let them destroy her ambitions, any more than she lets the hen house walls keep her a prisoner.”

“I think about all the things we could be if we were never told our bodies were not built for them.”

“Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds. If they had the courage to go one step further, they would discover their error.”

“Your only limitation is the one which you set up in your own mind.”

“For where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go? Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Like a tethered goat, so far and no farther. Only money can make the rope stretch, only money.”

“A wise man knows his limitations. And a bold one seizes opportunities.”

“If you accept as fact that the only limitations you ever encounter in your sport are mental, then you will become a better fire walker, creeping closer to your unreachable physical limit than you would otherwise.”

“thou tellest of running a race to a man whose knees are tottering beneath him!