Limits Quotes - Page 18

• If you really want to find out what you're capable of, you cannot put limits on yourself, and you definitely cannot be cautious.

  John Eliot

  Success, Achievement, Want

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.11, Diversion Books

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• The beauty of running is its simplicity; the beauty of runners is that we all have a similar drive to improve. We are either trying to run a personal best, or toeing the line for the first time, which will snowball into a future of trying to run personal bests. We road racers are a tight community of mileage-happy, limit-pushing athletes.

  Deena Kastor

  Running, Athlete, Simplicity

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• Goals are like stepping-stones to the stars. They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement

  Denis Waitley

  Stars, Goal, Achievement

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• To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Discovery, Achievement, Littles

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• The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Pain, Pessimistic, Greater

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• Liberty is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of society within the limits prescribed by the law, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyme

  George Washington

  Government, Law, Names

  George Washington (1838). “Monuments of Washington's patriotism: containing a fac simile of his publick accounts kept during the revolutionary war; and some of the documents connected with his military command and civil administration; together with an eulogium on the character of Washington, by W. Jackson”, p.15

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• ...there is no doubt something will be done sooner or later to enable us to put on a house every day, just as we put on clothes or choose a book to read or a theater to go to, like choosing a day to be lived, within the limits grated by other destinies or chances.

  Ettore Sottsass

  Book, Destiny, Clothes

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• To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Writing, Design, Style

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• 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

  Motivational, Done, Succeed

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• America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who - with their hands, their intelligence and their heart - built the greatest nation in the world: "Come, and everything will be given to you." She said: "Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent."

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Country, Heart, Men

  "Renewing the French-American Alliance". www.realclearpolitics.com. November 7, 2007.

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• Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human progress are dark ....If .... it is found possible to build a world organization of irresistible force and inviolable authority for the purpose of securing peace, there are no limits to the blessings which all men enjoy and share.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Dark, Blessing

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• It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.

  William O. Douglas

  Attitude, Fate, Expression

  "The One Un-American Act". William O. Douglas' speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award, December 3, 1952.

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• I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.

  Aldrich Ames

  Running, Kgb, People

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• So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.

  Robert South

  Despair, Littles, Anticipation

  "Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions".

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• The question is whether or not our insecurities are substantial enough to hurt, limit, or even distract us from profound effectiveness or fulfillment of purpose.

  Beth Moore

  Hurt, Effectiveness, Profound

  Beth Moore (2010). “So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us”, p.15, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I'm not interested in living in a fantasy world ... All my work is still meant to evoke real architectural spaces. But what interests me is what the world would be like if we were free of conventional limits. Maybe I can show what could happen if we lived by a different set of rules.

  Lebbeus Woods

  Real, Space, World

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• If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit the authority of those who rule over us.

  Billy Bragg

  Determination, Character, History

  Billy Bragg (2013). “The Progressive Patriot”, p.330, Random House

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• In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Darkness, Add, Desert

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.23

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• When you think that you are done you're only 40% in to what your body's capable of doing.that's just the limits that we put on ourselves.

  David Goggins

  Thinking, Done, Body

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• I always say the only limitations are in your mind, and if you don't buy into those limits, you can do a helluva lot more than you imagine.

  Marshall Ulrich

  Mind, Imagine, Can Do

  Marshall Ulrich (2011). “Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner's Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across Ameri ca”, p.35, Penguin

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• Why do the easy expected thing? It takes guts to follow your dreams. Courage. Many people, even those who love you, don't understand how compelling that can be, and will try to keep you in the “safety zone”. But f*#! that. Half the fun is venturing into the unknown, taking on the difficult task that yields new knowledge, doing more and testing your limits.

  Marshall Ulrich

  Dream, Fun, Love You

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• What I've done serves mostly to show that nearly all limits are self-imposed, a false construct of the mind. You can take on mind-boggling challenges. It may cause you grief, it may test your relationships and cause you to question your sanity, but you can do it! Yes, a fifty-seven year-old man can run across the United States and break a couple or records in the process. People of any age can accomplish what few others have done; we can endure the trials, overcome the obstacles, put up with the pain to realize our dreams. Why not try?

  Marshall Ulrich

  Running, Dream, Pain

  Marshall Ulrich (2011). “Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner's Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across Ameri ca”, p.117, Penguin

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• Film recognizes neither time nor space, only the limits of man's imagination

  Nicholas Ray

  Men, Space, Imagination

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• The attraction of snowboarding is the freedom it gives you. With a snowboard on your feet the sky is the limit. You can do anything and go anywhere. This is not just for pro riders. It is for everyone.
  The other amazing thing with snowboarding is how easy it is to get away from people and enjoy the solitude of the mountains. Its almost impossible in surfing but with snowboarding it is a short hike from the top of the lift or the side of the road.

  Jeremy Jones

  Freedom, Sky, Feet

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• Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.

  Bill Bowerman

  Faces, Competitors

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