Quotes About Limits

you don't build endurance by pushing yourself beyond your limits.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.

There are people out there who disagree with me politically, and understand the limits of that disagreement. It doesn't mean we disagree as people on basic human needs.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits - they may still be very distant - God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

I'm from the old school - you go where the power is, and you try to make fun of it. When it becomes off limits to say or do certain things without being brutalized or censored or whatever, it's unfortunate.

We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.

Wisdom defines the limits of one's knowledge and responsibility pushes one beyond those limits

The wind and sky know that there is no joy in unlimited freedom

we do what we are allowed to

There is wisdom in knowing your limits and then daring to push past them. Choose to live an exceptional life.

Pick up a bee from kindness, and learn the limitations of kindness.

Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.

I think there's a great homogenizing force that software imposes on people and limits the way they think about what's possible on the computer. Of course, it's also a great liberating force that makes possible, you know, publishing and so forth, and standards, and so on.

It is impossible for a man who is bogged to extricate another who is bogged.

Culture and education have no bounds or limits; now man is in a phase in which he must decide for himself how far he can proceed in the culture that belongs to the whole of humanity.

A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.

In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor.

Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.