Quotes About Limitation

Jesus said, 'blessed be the poor in spirit,' realising that any limitation in life that can create a desire in the individual to rise superior to the limitation and free himself from it is good. He realised that need is the prophecy of fulfillment. He looked every need as soil prepared for a seed.

If God entire could find lodgment in each man, then each man would be God. We should have an immense quantity of Gods, each limited by all the others and yet none the less infinite—a contradiction which would imply a mutual destruction of men, an impossibility of the existence of more than one.

Civilization is come. It has shut up a million of men within an area of four square leagues; it has stalled them in streets, houses, apartments, rooms, and chambers eight feet square; after a time it will make them shut up one upon another like the tubes of a telescope.

Ahora estas en el peor momento. Puede que sea más duro que la muerte. Pero puede que no haya otro peor. Porque los limites de una persona no camban. Quizá te vuelvas a enfermar y puede que te azote de nuevo un resfriado como este, pero si eres fuerte no volverás a sufrir en toda tu vida. Las cosas son así. Puedes pensar que seria un asco que volvería a ocurrir, pero ¿no crees que sería mejor hacerte a la idea de que las cosas son así?

the word never represents all the doors we keep closed, that when we say never we close ourselves off from the hope that things can ever be different.

At every place and time throughout your life, take frankly what that place and time can give you, and think of its limitation as advantage rather than harm. —JOHN RUSKIN

have a ball and chain strapped around his ankle.

Two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time. We've never quite made peace with that in the theater---set designer Robin Wagner

Nobody has ever succeeded in designing and building a bridge to a cloud.

The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable.

against the unmeasured aggrandizement of any power whatsoever

My dear sir, if we only talked about what we understood, our conversation would be extremely limited.

When you change your focus from limitations to boundless possibilities, from doubt and fear to love and confidence, you open your world in entirely new ways. You stop worrying about fixing what's wrong with you and start living from all that's right within you.

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

they propound the first principle of totalitarianism: that the State is competent to do all things and is limited in what it actually does only by the will of those who control the State. It is clear that this view is in direct conflict with the Constitution which is an instrument, above all, for limiting the functions of government, and which is as binding today as when it was written.

Your life is limited to your vision. If you want to change your life, you must change your vision of your life.

Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.

I'm not gonna be able to grow a beard. I've realized my limitations as a human.

You don't get everything you want. That doesn't exist in this realm.

I've never been able to sky-dive, and I've always wanted to. I've probably done everything else, but for some reason the insurance company won't let me do it.

I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.

My works on Lord Siva have been received well. But then, since it is in the praise of Siva, its acceptability is limited to those who believe in and pray to Lord Siva.

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this.