Limits Quotes

Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical theme? Even after having read the most profound thinkers, one still feels the need to begin anew. Only music gives definitive answers.

If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time, the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important and most rewarding things in life.

When we reach the outer limit of what Scripture says, it is time to stop arguing and start worshipping.

The real artist has no pride. Unfortunately he sees that his art has no limits. He feels obscurely how far he is from the goal. While he is perhaps being admired by others, he mourns the fact that he has not yet reached the point to which his better genius, like a distant sun, ever beckons to him.

All limits exist only in thought, and that is where they are overcome.

The only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves

What drives me? In every mission I'm on, the thing that drives me most is the desire to find my limits-and extend them.

If you plant yourself in one place and let your roots grow deep, there is no limit to what God can do.

If you think your obstacles are too big, they will be. Don’t set limits on your life with your thinking.

I know my limits. That's why I'm beyond.

A child needs freedom within limits.

The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention. Whatever you pay attention to will grow more important in your life. There is no limit to the kinds of changes that awareness can produce.

Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits

Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency.

You won't discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.

If you elect me the first Jewish justice of the peace, I'll reduce the speed limits to 54.95!

You were created to excel. There’s no limit to how high you can go in life. Keep stretching to the next level.

There are always limits, and opportunities. The ones we rehearse and focus on are the ones that shape our future.

In the mind, there are no limits...

There are no limits, only obstacles, and any obstacle can be overcome.

The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it give them, and nothing further should they seek for behind it; there is the limit.

Here at the quiet limit of the world.

The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.

I've got one outlet now - music - and it's great to be able to sign someone that excites me. I'd like to also be able to do that with the scripts I get or books or TV shows... I'm not going to limit myself.

Belief in limits creates limited people

When we love another, we never ever seek to limit or restrict them in any way whatsoever. Love says, "My will for you is your will for you." Love says, "I choose for you what you choose for you." When I say, "I choose for you what I choose for you," then I'm not loving you. I'm loving me through you, because I'm getting what I want, rather than seeing you get what you want.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it's narcissistic. You don't connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.

Each time I think I’ve reached a limit....there is a door....it opens....and the limit is gone.

If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.

We don’t want to limit what God can do in our children by trying to parent them alone—Trust God to take care of them.

There are limits, after all, to the idea of limits.

There are no limits, you are only limited by however far you want to be limited

I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually things get quite formulaic.

There are a lot of parallels between the historical Henry VIII and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. There's an oscillation and extremity of emotion throughout his repertoire that lends itself beautifully to the nature of Henry VIII, definitely. He will push things to the limit, and yet remain in emotional control.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of his imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. What he is to imagine is a matter for his own caprice; he is not thereby discovering the fundamental principles of the universe nor becoming acquainted with the ideas of God.

A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit.

This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

Developing inner values is much like physical exercise. The more we train our abilities, the stronger they become. The difference is that, unlike the body, when it comes to training the mind, there is no limit to how far we can go.

The World Club Challenge clash with St George was a brutal battle. It was one of the hardest games I've ever played in. I guess it would be good to have more matches of such intensity but, trust me, our bodies would struggle if we were subjected to this every week. There is a limit to how much players can take.

So one way to create an attractive risk/reward situation is to limit downside risk severely by investing in situations that have a large margin of safety. The upside, while still difficult to quantify, will usually take care of itself. In other words, look down, not up, when making your initial investment decision. If you don’t lose money, most of the remaining alternatives are good ones.

Today, about 40 percent of America's carbon pollution comes from our power plants. There are no federal limits to the amount those plants can pump into the air. None. We limit the amount of toxic chemicals like mercury, and sulfur, and arsenic in our air and water, but power plants can dump as much carbon pollution into our atmosphere as they want. It's not smart, it's not right, it's not safe, and I determined it needs to stop.

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

Raise your limits as high as you dare and then take them a little further.