Quotes About Limits

The most astonishing observation one makes today is that people surrender everything in the face of nothingness: their own judgment, their humanity, their neighbors. Where this fear is exploited without scruple, there are no limits to what can be achieved.[130]

Where the beginning begins, there our thinking stops; there it comes to an end.121

In my path, through my constant search, my horse has taught me the limitless progression of life. Every time in my learning that I felt a breakthrough, I opened the doors and I found my horse saying, "It's about time. I've been waiting for you." A few weeks later another breakthrough. I opened the doors and there was my horse again. So far I have never found any limits but my own.

La qualità della vostra vita dipende da ciò che farete. Gli unici limiti alle avventure sono i limiti della vostra immaginazione.

The Spartan attitude reflected an important fact about the condition of the Greek world from 479 to 461: Its stability was apparent only and not real. The alliance between Sparta and Athens was not an alliance of states but of factions. The faction of Cimon and the faction that would be headed by King Archidamus were prepared to accept limits to the hegemonal claims of their states, but in each state there were significant elements of the population who were not.

It is life, more than death, that has no limits.

O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.

There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.

Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.

I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life

There are certain things in life that have limits, but you don't unless you impose limits on yourself.

There's nothing that defines who you are more than boundaries, whether you cross them or not, in every aspect of your life, and horror is a really great boundary.

There are no rules in life. It's a mind-set that limits people dramatically.

If you think your obstacles are too big, they will be. Don't set limits on your life with your thinking.

One life is too short for doing everything.

I don't purposely speed, but I might go over by five or six miles an hour from time to time. It doesn't give me a buzz driving on normal roads, because I can't go fast enough. It's never going to be anything like an F1 car.

The only difference between genius and insanity is that genius has its limits.

As Uncle Hegel used to enjoy pointing out, the trouble with perspectives is that they are, by definition, PARTIAL points of view; the Real problems are appreciated only when, in the course of the development of the World Spirit, the limits of perspective come to be transcended. Or, to put it less technically, it helps to be able to see the whole elephant.

In the most common fantasy of ideal love, [...], a woman can only unleash her desire in the hands of a man whom she imagines to be more powerful, who does not depend upon her for his strength. [...] The boundedness and limits within which one can surrender, and in which one can experience abandonment and creativity, are sought in the ideal lover. (p. 120)

There are limits to self-improvement. Inevitably you hit the point where what you are is, well, what you are, and all the teach-yourself videos and easy-to-use equipment on those creatinous home TV shopping things can no longer ward off you confrontation with your self.

Freud was so imbued with the spirit of his culture that he could not go beyond certain limits which were set by it. These very limits became limitations for his understanding even of the sick individual; they handicapped his understanding of the normal individual and of the irrational phenomena operating in social life.

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