Limits Quotes
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You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.
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The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.
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Identify your personal limits and then push past them. Then set new barriers, and repeat the process, again and again and again.
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If you want to succeed, limit yourself.
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None but the most blindly credulous will imaging the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the towns of England, the likeliest progenitor of unlikely events and persons. But there are limits.
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We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.
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You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less.
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Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?
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Respect is more important than anything else. Respect will create a foundation. But, just so you don’t walk into something you aren’t prepared for in the future, you need to be aware that he has his limits.
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The Arctic Ocean encircles with a belt of eternal ice the desert confines of Siberia and North America--the uttermost limits of the Old and New worlds, separated by the narrow, channel, known as Behring's Straits.
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The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
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To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.
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The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
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The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.
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We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand.
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For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves. But they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. We, however, will not boast beyond measure, but within the limits of the sphere which God appointed us—a sphere which especially includes you” (2 Cor. 10:12–13).
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A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.
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The way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits.
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It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.
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As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.
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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
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If you limit worship to where you are, the minute you leave that place of worship you will leave your attitude of worship behind like a crumpled-up church bulletin.
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Freedom of expression without limits is like a car without brakes.
