logo

Quotes About Limitation

When you have earned the high horizon it isn't easy to go back into your box, into a narrow island, an eternity of anticlimax.
~ Salman Rushdie
A compulsory ocean sounds worse than a forbidden well.
~ Salman Rushdie
One thing each of us knows for certain is that reality vastly exceeds our awareness of it.
~ Sam Harris
Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.
~ Michael Jordan
Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own, and his strength will dissipate.
~ Morihei Ueshiba
Humility is not weakness; it is the epitome of strength. Humility moves a person away from human, personal weakness and limitation into divine expression, strength, and expansion.
~ Donald Curtis
Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength.
~ Eric Hoffer
No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which will finally do him in.
~ Philip K. Dick
The strength of the genie comes from being in a bottle.
~ Richard Wilbur
We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Every form of strength is also a form of weakness.
~ Michael Lewis
Fear Only Constraints Undeveloped Strength where your eyes look to within, is what your heart will believe.
~ Anthony Liccione
Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.
~ Debbie Allen
The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.
~ Orrin Woodward
Thoughts of lack manifest as limitation. Thoughts of abundance manifest as success and happiness. Failure and success are but two ends of the same stick.
~ Ernest Holmes
Success is the brand on the brow of the man who aimed too low.
~ John Masefield
In the mountains, fatigue is the biggest controllable limitation that will come between you and success.
~ Steve House
Success comes in cans. Failures comes in can'ts.
~ Michael Josephson
Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.
~ Robert J. Flaherty
The cause was not in Dantes, but in providence, who, while limiting the power of man, has filled him with boundless desires.
~ Alexandre Dumas
So Dantès, who three months earlier had wanted nothing except freedom, felt already not free enough, but wanted wealth. It was not the fault of Dantès, but of God who, while limiting the power of man, has created in him infinite desires!
~ Alexandre Dumas
Ainsi Dantès, qui, il y a trois mois, n'aspirait qu'à la liberté, n'avait déjà plus assez de la liberté et aspirait à la richesse; la faute n'en était pas à Dantès, mais à Dieu, qui, en bornant la puissance de l'homme, lui a fait des désirs infinis!
~ Alexandre Dumas
La colpa non era di Dantès bensì di Dio che, limitando la potenza dell'uomo, gli ha creato desideri infiniti.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Tre mesi prima aspirava solo alla libertà e ora già non gli bastava, voleva la ricchezza; non era colpa sua, ma di Dio, che ha concesso all'uomo possibilità limitate ma desideri infiniti.
~ Alexandre Dumas