Limitation Quotes - Page 39

• Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is understanding without research. It is certainty without proof. It is ability without practice. It is invention without limitations. It is imagination without boundaries. It is creativity without constraints. It is...extraordinary intelligence!

  Patricia Polacco

  Creativity, Practice, Knowing

  FaceBook post by Patricia Polacco from Mar 24, 2014

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• Oh, Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations. Thou art Everywhere, but I worship thee here: Thou art without form, but I worship thee in these forms; Thou needest no praise, yet I offer thee these prayers and salutations. Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations." - Ash

  M.M. Kaye

  Art, Prayer, Forgiving

  M. M. Kaye (2015). “The Far Pavilions”, p.72, St. Martin's Griffin

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• My old school, St Stella’s, only goes to Year Ten and most of my friends now go to Pius Senior College, but my mother wouldn’t allow it because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she didn’t bring me up to have limitations placed upon me. If you know my mother, you’ll sense there’s an irony there, based on the fact that she is the Queen of the Limitation Placers in my life.

  Melina Marchetta

  Senior, Girl, Mother

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.6, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Real leaders are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, People, Leader

  David Foster Wallace (2005). “Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays”, p.137, Hachette UK

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• Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Clever, Looks, Tao Of Pooh

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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• Limitation of one's freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.

  Pope John Paul II

  Creative, Negative, Might

  Pope John Paul II (2006). “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body”

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• I’m interested in what people do with the chaos in their lives and how they respond to it, and simultaneously what they do with what they feel like are limitations. If they push against these limitations, will they wind up in the realm of chaos, or will they push against limitations and wind up in the world of freedom?

  Philip Roth

  Wind, People, World

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Feb 20, 2012

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• If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one's individual life from its limitations and instability to the plane of indestructability; if one's name is known to one's contemporaries and if one can hope that it will last for centuries, then one's life has meaning and significance by this very reflection of it in the judgments of others.

  Erich Fromm

  Christian, Mean, Reflection

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.57, Open Road Media

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• In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.

  Richard Yates

  Goal, World, Fields

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• I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Energy, Admire, Protect

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.133, Vintage

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• Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus: Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore- Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second. This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Blessed, Science

  "The Devil's Dictionary:". Book by Ambrose Bierce (p. 204), 2008.

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• Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but on the federal government. The government, and those who ran it, were not placed outside the law, but expressly targeted by it. Indeed, the Bill of Rights is little more than a description of the lines that the most powerful political officials are barred from crossing, even if they have the power to do so and even when the majority of citizens might wish them to do so.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Powerful, Law, Rights

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• Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.

  E. M. Forster

  Mistake, Earth, Realizing

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• Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood' while he waits to discover his 'true vocation'. The world is full of unsuccessful businessmen who still secretly believe they were meant to be artists or writers or actors in the movies.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Jobs, Believe

  Thomas Merton (2002). “Seeds”

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• Challenge your limitations for the pure joy of challenge.

  Chin-Ning Chu

  Joy, Challenges, Pure

  Chin-Ning Chu (2010). “Thick Face, Black Heart: The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life”, p.155, Hachette UK

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• Your only limitation is the one you set up in your own mind!

  Napoleon Hill

  Mind, Outwitting

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Become Your Best”, p.175, Jaico Publishing House

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• Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Adversity, Rights, Self

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• It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second, uncontrolled birth-rates are bound to lead to horribly increased death –rates. It is hard to believe that this simple truth is not understood by those leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods. They express a preference for ‘natural’ methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Simple, Birth Rate

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• We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

  Richard Bach

  Overcoming, World, Weight

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• The man who knows his limitations, has none.

  David Foster Wallace

  Men, Knows

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.66, Hachette UK

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• Society has put up so many boundaries, so many limitations on what’s right and wrong that it’s almost impossible to get a pure thought out. It’s like a little kid, a little boy, looking at colors, and no one told him what colors are good, before somebody tells you you shouldn’t like pink because that’s for girls, or you’d instantly become a gay two-year-old. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better color. Everyone’s born confident, and everything’s taken away from you.

  Kanye West

  Girl, Taken, Kids

  "Kanye West: I’m Amazing". Interview with Peter Macia, www.thefader.com. November 29, 2012.

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• John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: "I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

  Dale Carnegie

  Years, Names, Facts

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.

  Aleister Crowley

  Mind, Certain

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• There are no unique postures and times and limitations that restrict our access to God. My relationship with God is intimate and personal. The Christian does not go to the temple to worship. The Christian takes the temple with him or her. Jesus lifts us beyond the building and pays the human body the highest compliment by making it His dwelling place, the place where He meets with us. Even today He would overturn the tables of those who make it a marketplace for their own lust, greed and wealth.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Christian, Jesus, Unique

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• Acceptance. We want someone to look at us, and really see us—our physical flaws, our personality quirks, our insecurities. And we want them to be okay with every square inch of who we are. We’re always afraid we might be too needy or too much work. We put all these limitations on ourselves and our relationships because we’re afraid that we’re not really loved. That we’re not really accepted. We hide little pieces of ourselves because we think that might be the one thing that finally drives away the person who’s supposed to love us.

  Michele Bardsley

  Acceptance, Thinking, Squares

  Michele Bardsley (2010). “Cross Your Heart: A Broken Heart Novel”, p.148, Penguin

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