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Quotes about Limitations

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can.

Lin Yutang (1895 - 1976)
 
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Never limit your view of life by any past experience.

Ernest Holmes
Source: The Science of Mind
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You've flapped and fluttered against limits long enough.
You've been a bird without wings in a house without doors or windows.
Compassion builds a door.
Restlessness cuts a key.
ASK!
Step off
proudly into sunlight,
not looking back.
Take sips of this pure wine being poured.
Don't mind that you've been given a dirty cup.

Mevlana Jelalu'ddin Rumi : Persian sufi mystic
Mevlana Rumi (1207 - 1273)
Source: The Illuminated Rumi, Page: 32
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Imagination gives the man the ability to poject himself through time and space and rise above all limitations.

Charles Fillmore
Source: Dynamic Laws of Prosperity by Catherine Ponder
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the complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations.

Thomas Keating
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04gdsFt_zDY
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The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Confucius : Chinese philosopher, founder of Confucianism
Confucius (c. 551 - c. 479 BC)
 
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As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole--the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration. We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

Stephen R. Covey : American author, trainer, motivator
Stephen Covey (1932 - )
 
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Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Les Brown : 21st Century Motivational Speaker
Les Brown
 
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Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Denis Waitley : American personal development expert
Denis Waitley
 
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Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. . . . The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
Source: 1912 , Address at the New York Press Club
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
 
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The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. When we resist . . . concentration of power we are resisting the powers of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.

Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
 
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The goal of fasting is inner unity. This means hearing but not with the ear; hearing, but not with the understanding; it is hearing with the spirit, with your whole being. . . . The hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty, to the ear, or to the mind. Hence, it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct grasp of what is right before you that can never be heard with the ear or understood with the mind. Fasting of the heart empties the faculties, frees you from limitations and from preoccupations.

Thomas Merton : American religious writer & poet, became a Trappist monk & priest
Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)
 
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Life . . . is a joyful expression of love, praise and thanksgiving instead of a hopeless struggle which eventually ends in death. Giving thanks in every circumstance, we forego the logic and reason which asks, "Why me?" and open our hearts and learn to trust. Every obstacle becomes an occasion for rejoicing. We put love at the center of our universe and we are lifted beyond the world of limitation, doubt, and fear into the realm of love, hope, and eternal happiness.

Robert Scheid
Source: Beyond the Love Game
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The conversation between Fletcher and Jonathan Livingston Seagull is centered on why some have achieved more than others . . . are they divine . . . ahead of their times . . . Fletcher says, Well, this kind of flying has always been here to be learned by anybody who wanted to discover it; that's got nothing to do with time. We're ahead of the fashion, maybe. Ahead of the way most gulls fly. Poor Fletch. Don't you believe what your eyes are telling you? All they show is limitations. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

Richard David Bach : American author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach (1936 - )
Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.

Richard David Bach : American author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach (1936 - )
Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson : American transcendentalist philosopher, essayist & lecturer
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
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I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action. An Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837.

Ralph Waldo Emerson : American transcendentalist philosopher, essayist & lecturer
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Source: “The American Scholar” from “Addresses,” published as part of Nature; Addresses and Lectures
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Perfectionism is really a manifestation of the belief that one's efforts are never good enough. Imagine: How many of the obstacles standing in your way are the product of your own imagination? What have you convinced yourself that you can't do? What limitations have you come to believe in? Your mind is very powerful and effective. Is it working for you, or against you?

Ralph Marston
 
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Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve.

Rachel Naomi Remen
 
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Leadership is not magnetic personality - that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people" - that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Peter F. Drucker : American managment guru
Peter F. Drucker (1909 - 2005)
 
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It's impossible for you to conceive how far up is, except for the limitations of your own mind.

Pat Ryan
 
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Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon his freedom and a limitation of his right to make the most of himself in order that he may rise in the scale of the social and economic order in which he lives. The notion that all human beings born into this world enter at birth into a definite social and economic classification, in which classification they must remain permanently through life, is wholly false and fatal to a progressive civilization.

Nicholas Butler (1862 - 1947)
 
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Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word "academic" in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.

Myron Tribus
 
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We see the garden as a wonderful tool to help clients and their families recognize that they can continue an activity that is meaningful to them regardless of their limitations.

Mona Lippitt
Source: Therapy Manager, Promina, Atlanta
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Love should be a vehicle allowed to travel without limitations.

Marvin J. Ashton (1915 - 1994)
Source: Ensign, May 1988, p. 64.
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The artist accepts the limitations of form, not with fear and dread, but as the starting point of creation.

Laurence G. Boldt
 
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To practice virtue is to selflessly offer assistance to others, giving without limitation one's time, abilities, and possessions in service, whenever and wherever needed, without prejudice concerning the identity of those in need.

Lao Tzu : Chinese philosopher & mystic, founder of Taoism
Lao Tzu (c.604 - 531 B.C.)
Source: The Hua Hu Ching, (4)
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Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit . . . each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.

Joseph Campbell : American mythologist, writer & philosopher
Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
 
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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses, for art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy : American Statesman (35th US president: 1961-63), youngest president
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
 
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