Quotes About Limits

In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

The more you go to your limits, the more your limits will expand.

Define the limits of your vision: Having this, you will not be poorer Than a man who rules a dukedom.

I think we have to be very careful. If we do go back in, we need to understand why and what the probability of success is and exactly what we're going to do and what the limits are.

I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar... If they're going into law, they're going to be chief justice.

Is it not natural that the madman, ignorant of his folly, should attempt things beyond his power?

The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.

We can't save everyone, so we have to do what we can when we can.

we are confined in our lives only by the limits of our own beliefs.

Moderation in training means that you seldom explore your physical limits. Athletes often attempt the hardest workouts they can do. Long workouts are much too long, and intensity is often way too high. Most seem to believe that peak fitness comes from pushing their limits several times each week, and rest is viewed as something for sissies. That way of thinking is a sure way to derail your training frequently. Moderation in workout duration and intensity is what you should seek.

Our expectations set the limits for our lives. If you expect little, you're going to receive little. If you don't anticipate things to get better, then they won't. But if you expect more favor, more good breaks, a promotion, and an increase, then you will see new levels of favor and success.

I have my limits, Lauren," he said, low. She knew it, could feel the caged beast hurling against his bars, knew how close he was.

The true genius knows only his dependence and weakness, or the bounds of his gifts. The equation of his powers is a negative quantity.

I was for the first time in my life living within the limits of my attention's resources. I was observing as much information as I could actually process, think about and contemplate. The fire hose of information was turned off. Instead, I was sipping water at the pace I chose.

If we don't change course, he fears we are headed toward a world where "there's going to be an upper class of people that are very aware" of the risks to their attention and find ways to live within their limits, and then there will be the rest of the society with "fewer resources to resist the manipulation, and they're going to be living more and more inside their computers, being manipulated more and more.

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.

We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.

In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.

The seasons of life are not meant to be frenetic, just full. Blessed is the woman who knows her own limits.