Quotes About Limits

Haluja lietsotaan sietämättömyyteen saakka ja sitten tehdään niiden toteuttaminen yhä mahdottomammaksi; se oli ainoa periaate, jolle länsimainen yhteiskunta perustui.

seguramente el amor, igual que la piedad según Nietzsche, nunca había sido otra cosa que una ficción inventada por los débiles para culpabilizar a los fuertes, para imponer límites a su libertad y su ferocidad naturales.

To understand the precise point when the possible becomes the impossible, you have to appreciate and understand the laws of physics.

Hobbies that demand skill, habits that set goals and limits, personal interests, and especially inner discipline help to make leisure what it is supposed to be—a chance for re-creation.

When we choose a goal and invest ourselves in it to the limits of our concentration, whatever we do will be enjoyable. And once we have tasted this joy, we will redouble our efforts to taste it again.

As Democritus said so simply many centuries ago: "Water can be both good and bad, useful and dangerous. To the danger, however, a remedy has been found: learning to swim." To swim in this case involves learning to distinguish the useful and the harmful forms of flow, and then making the most of the former while placing limits on the latter. The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.

It was because the leading citizens, as well as the common people, were so seriously concerned with the outcome of their work that the artists were pushed to perform beyond their previous limits.

It's amazing what we can get away with and what we can't. But it's not for me to decide.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

Things cannot forever go downward. There are limits to everything—even the cold, and the darkness, and the wind, and the dying.

I ara torna la lúcida tristesa, una mirada fonda i vehement que no vulnera límits i reposa en qualsevol objecte.

But you can only give so much of yourself away before you lose yourself.

Never eat more than you can lift.

New Age environmentalism and conventional environmentalism that place limits on serious, in-depth ecological thinking have been increasingly replaced by social ecology that explores the economic and institutional factors that enter into the environmental crisis.

The State has invariably shown a striking talent for the expansion of its powers beyond any limits that might be imposed upon it. Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and private enterprise, we must assert that the State is profoundly and inherently anticapitalist.

The last few centuries were times when men tried to place constitutional and other limits on the State, only to find that such limits, as with all other attempts, have failed. Of all the numerous forms that governments have taken over the centuries, of all the concepts and institutions that have been tried, none has succeeded in keeping the State in check.

All worries and troubles have gone from my breast and I play joyfully far from the world. For a person of Zen, no limits exist. The blue sky must feel ashamed to be so small." Muso Soseki

Only those who have set limits to their goals can see through the end.

Patience has its limits. This statement is true for anyone who has tasted the qualities of true leadership.

The road to success is not child's play. Perseverance, discipline and sacrifice are necessary to reach this promised land. No wonder few people are successful in life, those who are willing to go beyond bodily limits.

To doubt is to go beyond the limits. But once you go over the bar, there is no limit.

We are all experts and sometimes encounter limits in our fields, including those we call fools. Even the doctor can only heal the sick, but not raise the dead.

You must, therefore, know your limits of self-defence; so as not to cross the line of mercy and forgiveness.

You will only look for past events when the present is unsatisfactory. The secret to enjoying the present moment is to make it more satisfying than the past. Go beyond the limits.