Quotes About Limitation

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.

Even moderation ought not to be practised to excess.

You may ask me for anything you like except time.

O, for an engine to keep back all clocks!

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.

Time is the tyrant of the body.

The true exercise of freedom is-can-nily and wisely and with grace-to move inside what space confines-and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it has been written, the world would end.

There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline. In some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.

He who cannot do what he wants must make do with what he can.

It is impossible to control creation.

I'm not going to limit myself just because some people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.

The more we reduce the size of our world, the more we shall be its master.

One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose.

The future is a world limited by ourselves-in it we discover only what concerns us.

Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.