Quotes About Limits

Don't be afraid to make demands on yourself and push yourself beyond the comfortable limits of what you think you can accomplish; you'll never exhaust your reservoir of potential for accomplishment and achievement. The only limits we possess are the ones we impose upon ourselves.

From Pastor Malthus to the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth; from hysteria over DDT, PCBs, and natural gas "fracking"; to continuing bouts of chemo-phobia and population panic; the achievements of capitalism have suffered a long series of detractions. The factitious and febrile campaign against global warming is only the latest binge of self-abuse among the children of prosperity.

The notion of political correctness . declares certain topics. certain expressions . even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

I've been patient, but where I'm concerned patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

Both rocketry and magic were rebellions against the very limits of human existence; in striving for one challenge he could not help but strive for the other.

Even the finest of jugglers cannot keep a hundred balls in the air forever.

Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.

Se comete un gran error creyendo que los seres humanos son capaces de alcanzar tarde o temprano los límites de su satisfacción.

There ought to be limits to freedom.

Men like us — up to a point — we're more careful when we're drunk. But once we get past that point, we don't give a damn.

No one will believe a crime that big. People will say, "Impossible, they could not kill that many, torture that many, be so cruel." People will say that there are limits, that human beings stop at some point. But they didn't stop.

You can't get blood out of a turnip.

Where law ends, there tyranny begins.

Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing, if not carcinogenic.

Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of his comprehension.

We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.

No one is expected to achieve the impossible.

Seek not out the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are above thy strength.

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said, 'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.'

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

The doctor takes care of you but he is not God.

Never enough time. It's never enough time. Was there enough time?