Limits Quotes
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We'll limit in all ways the work of religious faiths which are foreign to us.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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Your circumstances don't dictate your future. ... Your circumstances don't limit you.
Richard Sherman
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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.
Elliot W. Eisner
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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.
Haruki Murakami
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Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities.
Michael Zaslow
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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.
Nicole Haislett
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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.
Steven Holl
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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?
Charles Gounod
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The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
Bill Crawford
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Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.
Nolan Ryan
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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.
Eugene Sue
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The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.
Seneca the Younger
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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.
Elsie de Wolfe
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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.
Rene Descartes
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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).
Brian Houston
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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.
Brenda Novak
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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.
Saul Bellow
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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.
Ernest Renan
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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.
Tony Evans
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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.
Northrop Frye
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There are always limits, and opportunities. The ones we rehearse and focus on are the ones that shape our future.
Seth Godin
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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.
Paul Gauguin
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The way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits.
Joshua Foer