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Quotes About Limitations

Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.
~ Paul Valery
Science must acknowledge truthfully how much it doesn't know and leave room for mystery, miracles, and the wisdom of nature.
~ Christiane Northrup
Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.
~ Douglas Lenat
I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free.
~ Emily Saliers
It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.
~ Timothy Keller
Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.
~ Junot Diaz
A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!
~ Laozi
Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.
~ Sri Aurobindo
For all our failings. Despite our limitations fallibilities. We humans are capable of greatness.
~ Carl Sagen
You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.
~ Jeannette Rankin
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments.
~ Francis Hutcheson
We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There's only so much room at the top of the heap. The rest of us are fill dirt.
~ Sue Grafton
You can break the walls of limitations with the power of your dreams and imagination.
~ Debasish Mridha
Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.
~ Helen Keller
I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all.
~ Hillary Clinton
If someone tells you, "You can't" they really mean, "I can't."
~ Sean Stephenson
Faith is having a positive attitude about what you can do and not worrying at all about what you can't do.
~ Joyce Meyer
Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we can be
~ Anthony Robbins
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.
~ Maxwell Maltz