Quotes About Limit

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.

There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin.

There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period.

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

In prayer we can approach God with complete assurance of His ability to answer us. There is no limit to what we can ask, if it is according to His will.

Nature in you stands on the very vergeOf her confine.

So far as my coin would stretch; and where it would not, I have used my credit.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.

Somewhere out there the world must have an end.

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

Most people operate within a margin of plus or minus several minutes.

If they thought we were a bunch of crazies, why did they drive us to the limit?

When in doubt, it always pays to reduce scope.

John ducked casually across some DO NOT DUCK CASUALLY ACROSS THIS TAPE tape

I stared at him. I said, "Wait, really? Like there's an actual part of our brain that dictates how many people we can tolerate before we start acting like assholes?" "Congratulations, now you know the single reason why the world is the way it is.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. —T. S. Eliot

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. —T. S. Eliot The

The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.

It's a comfortable place, mediocrity. Never pushing oneself to the limit to see what you can take. Never staring down your fears, never reaching into yourself to find that last bit of courage. You don't even know what it is that you're made of-and what's more, you seem distinctly uninterested in finding out.

It's a comfortable place, mediocrity. Never pushing oneself to the limit to see what you can take. Never staring down your fears, never reaching into yourself to find that last bit of courage. You don't even know what it is that you are made of

Whoever risks, shall know how far they can reach.

Growing up, I knew where the world ended. I could see it, at the horizon, where the sky touched the corn. My life was bounded and known. I *knew* the edges of the world. And then I went to college.

To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.