Limitations Quotes

“Never limit yourself to what you can't do, but to what you have the power to do with what you have.”
― Nadège Richards

“...the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.”
― Jonah Lehrer, Imagine: How Creativity Works

“Caring too much about someone can make you lose your own limits.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“What he'd do, he'd never go out to the length of the chain. He'd never even get out to where the chain got tight. Even if the mailman pulled up, or a salesman. Out of dignity, this dog pretended like he chose this one area to stay in that just happened to be inside the length of the chain. Nothing outside of that area right there interested him. He just had zero interest. So he never noticed the chain. He didn't hate it. The chain. He just up and made it not relevant. maybe he wasn't pretending--maybe he really up and chose that little circle for his own world. He had a power to him. All of his life on that chain.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

“Methamphetamine is so Flowers for Algernon: All that super-human cerebral ability fades to limited physical activities like stapling carpet scraps to the wall or masturbation antics worthy of The Guinness Book of World Records.”
― Clint Catalyst, Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person

“If people don't recognize such limits, God will make them realize His own way”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, This Earth of Mankind

“You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman, Veterans of the Psychic Wars

“Great sex is all about freedom and being everything you’ve always wanted to be. Know now that the only limits you have in regards to your own sexuality are the ones you impose on yourself.”
― Roberto Hogue, Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed

“They say to think within the box, but it's funny how those in the box never go anywhere, where those outside it, get to see the world.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Our problem as Americans -- at least, among my race and gender -- is that we resist the very idea of limits, regarding limits of all sorts as temporary and regrettable impositions on our lives.”
― Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

“I'd always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“We live in a world that worships limitations”
― Tama J. Kieves, This Time I Dance!: Creating the Work You Love

“Do you feel trapped by the limitations in your life? Remember, you hold the key to the freedom you seek. You can unlock those limitations and set yourself free! There is always a way, there is always another open door or unlocked door. Try them all….”
― James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations

“There's more than one thing I can't do and there are a lot more things than that that you can't do or you wouldn't be in the newspaper business. You'd be a jockey and a scholar and a connoisseur of femininity like I am”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

“A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman, Veterans of the Psychic Wars

“I used to worry about the labels others placed on me… until I realized my limitations weren’t coming from their labels, but from my own.”
― Steve Maraboli

“He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and to her God. He has endeavored in every way that he could to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life.”
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments (Little Books of Wisdom

“Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.”
― Raheel Farooq

“The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can frame any number of hypotheses, but rarely, if ever, scientifically prove.”
― David George Hogarth

“Kids are naturally curious about the world around them. Everything is fascinating and holds their attention as they explore their new surroundings. Adults however, have grown up hearing the word ‘no’, ‘don't do that,’ and ‘quit daydreaming so often, they create their own little world, a world with lots of limitations. What then do most adults teach to their children? ‘No’, ‘don't do that,’ and ‘quit daydreaming.’ So, what can you learn from a child today…?”
― James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations

“She had told Kazan that she was bored with the roles she was playing because so many of them had been basically the same kind of empty-headed characterization. She wanted nothing ore than to challenge herself with more complex parts--and also wanted others to think of her as being more than a caricature.
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Anytime she had an opportunity to broaden her mind, she wanted to take advantage of it.”
― J. Randy Taraborrelli, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe

“Language and Knowledge have certain limitations; they can go only up to a certain point, for beyond that lies reality.”
― Gian Kumar

“When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“It would be indeed unusual if it turned out that the set of orders that our mind is able to construct and accept, having as it does a deep sense of “understanding the essence of things,” matches precisely the set of all possible orders to be detected in the Universe as a whole. We should admit that this is not impossible, yet it does seem highly improbable. This way of thinking, so modest in its assessment of our abilities, is probably the only way recommended, given our lack of knowledge, because we are not aware of our limitations.”
― Stanisław Lem, Summa technologiae

“...But living creatures are idiosyncratic. They are created in such a way that they can actualize only what their microscopic minds wish for. The concept of limitless is bound heavily by the minor actualization of what perfection is...”
― Lionel Suggs

“Those who do not succeed do not believe in their ability to exercise the potential power to forge beyond perceptions of limitations.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“To discover your limitations you must first explore them.”
― Marcus Harrison Green

“You may have been born on the rubbish damp. But be careful not to believe that the rubbish damp was born in you! Your environment may try to set conditions that may attempt their fingers on crippling you. But you got to stand and say "I thank you Lord that I am rising against and above my limitations”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Purge everything that's holding you back. Whatever it is you feel you are being deprived of, trust the limitation serves to bring you more of what you want.”
― Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi

“Limits are always extended, never broken.”
― Raheel Farooq