Quotes About Limitation

You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.

I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.

Wish I could be what you want but I can't and I'm sorry.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

'Impossible' is not a scientific term.

Never expect more than what is possible.

Like a jar, our heart has only very limited spaces. Fill it up with courage, not fear.

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.

The only reason we dont have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we cant have them.

Never promise more than you can perform.

The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.

A tree that grows in the shade of another one will die small.

Giving God a challenge is like lighting a candle to challenge the sun.

People are sometimes not ready to accept what they are able to do something or not.

Too much of anything can't help you make your life better or happy.

God is infinite and we are finite; therefore, we can never know everything about God. But just because we cannot know everything about God does not mean that we cannot know anything about him, and to know him in an accurate and definite manner.

I am so angry with myself because I cannot do what I should like to do, and at such a moment one feels as if one were lying bound hand and foot at the bottom of a deep dark well, utterly helpless.

We are not all capable of everything.

Öyle insanlar vard?r ki koskoca dünyam?z bile onlar için bir hapishaneden ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildir. Çünkü onlar, kainat?n sonsuz bo?lu?unu görmektedirler. Milyonlarca y?ld?z? ve evreni seyretmektedirler ama bunlar?n kendilerine ebediyen yasakland???n? bildikleri için, idrak ettikleri ?ey onlar? dü?ünebilecek en büyük köleler haline getirmektedir: Zaman?n ve mekan?n köleleri.

It is true that liberty is precious—so precious that it must be rationed.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.