Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Limits

Limits

All of us are, to some extent, victims of what we are. We are not limited by our imaginations, but by our ability to do what we imagine. We are not too often limited by our abilities as much as by circumstances. And we are not as often limited by our circumstances as much as by the lack of the will to respond.--Dee Bowman (That's Life!)
Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.--James R. Cook
Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what's right before you decide what's possible.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
Every person takes the limits for their own field of vision for the limits of the world.--Arthur Schopenhauer
Everyone knows on any given day that there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call fourth. … Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources. … Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives fare within his limits he possesses powers of various sorts he habitually fails to use.--William James (in Developing the Leader Within You by Maxwell)
First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitation and then-pfft!-break the limitation.--Viola Spolin
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.--Helen Keller
I think knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do.--Lucille Ball (The Real Story of Lucille Ball by Harris)
I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.--Dolly Parton
Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long. In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world--Vince Poscente (Invinceable Principles)
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.--John Locke (An Essay Concerning Human Understanding)
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.--James Baldwin
Know the limits of what you can expect from yourself and those around you. Be willing to push those limits, but understand that pushing beyond them is subject to one of the few absolute laws that govern human nature: the law of diminishing returns. Pushed beyond limits, people work inefficiently, poorly, and even counterproductively.--Gary Ryan Blair (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)
Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
Learn to ... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.--Henri Frederic Amiel
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.--Mignon McLaughlin (The Neurotic's Notebook)
Life's only limitations are those you set upon yourself, for as long as you strive hard enough anything is achievable.--Chad Williams
Limited expectations yield only limited results.--Susan Laurson Willig
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.--Arthur C. Clarke
A man's got to know his limitations.--John Milius (Magnum Force)
Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.--A. E. Hotchner
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.--Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR Speaks)
The only limits are, as always, those of vision.--James Broughton
The only luck or limitations is in your own mind.--N. H. Moos
Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.--John Fowles (The Magus)
The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.--Helen Keller
There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.--Hal Borland
There is only one nature--the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.--Bill Wulf
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to, in virtue of our endowments.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (Over the Teacups)
When in a hole, stop digging.--Sanjeeva Ananthan
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.--George Eliot (Daniel Deronda)
Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.--Elizabeth Bowen (The Death of the Heart)
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.--Nathaniel Hawthorne
You are never really playing against an opponent. You are playing against yourself, your own highest standards. And when you reach your limits, that is real joy.--Arthur Ashe
You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don't do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings while undercutting your finest, most productive ones.--Marsha Sinetar
A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will... It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.--Jane Harrison (Alpha and Omega)