Quotes About Limitations

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help for It As impotently moves as you or I.

Tell me how you crumble when you hit the wall,the place you cannot go beyond by the strength of your own will. What carries you to the other side of that wall, to the fragile beauty of your own humanness?

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.

Just as water will not surpass the capacity of the container, a team's success will not surpass the capacity of the leader.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ... [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping.

Life is much more than reason, so it can never be captured and explained by reason alone—crucial and valuable though reason is. Apply reason as carefully and systematically as you like, and there will always be things it cannot explain, things that simply will not fit into its categories, however hard you push, press and pull.

Modern life assaults us with an infinite range of things we could do, we would love to do, or some people tell us we should do. But we are not God and we are neither infinite nor eternal. We are quite simply finite. We have only so many years, so much energy, so many gray cells, and so many bank notes in our wallets. 'Life is too short to...' eventually shortens to 'life is too short.

It's just that humans are made imperfect from the very beginning.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated His ability.

And if we make our own inability a stumbling block or an excuse not to be obedient, it means that we are telling God that there is something which He has not yet taken into account.

diminished creative thinking and

I'm no good with business, me. I'm the last person to ask when it comes to contracts and dough and all that.

Los libros se hacen con lo que se tiene y no necesariamente con lo que se quiere.

You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you." —ARTEN IN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE UNIVERSE, BY GARY RENARD

another clue to finding true self and vocation: we must withdraw the negative projections we make on people and situations-projections that serve mainly to mask our fears about ourselves-and acknowledge and embrace our own liabilities and limits.

The best engineer in the world can't build a 10-story sandcastle.

You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.

Most of us feel that we live in a reality we didn't choose. When we come across somebody who inspires us to rise above the limitations that we set for ourselves, we can't help but feel inspired.

Chains are chains even if made of gold, they just tie you.

Chains are chains, even made of gold, they just tie you.

waste our lives moving in a circle, in the most constricted space. We sacrifice all freedom.

That was Gudmund's biggest fault. That he couldn't be anyone's everything. But that he'd try anyway.