Limits Quotes - Page 7

• Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.

  Jim Rohn

  Future, Vocabulary, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 02, 2016

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• If you can't get a miracle, become one.

  Nick Vujicic

  Inspirational, Life, Miracle

  Nick Vujicic (2010). “Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life”, p.17, WaterBrook

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• Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

  Sparky Anderson

  Sports, Years, Fields

  Sparky Anderson (1991). “Sparky!”, Prentice Hall

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• If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

  Harvey S. Firestone

  Strength, Leadership, Men

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• 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

  Sad, Flower, Ex Boyfriend

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• The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, Usa, Literature

  "The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations". Book edited by Antony Jay, 1996.

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• In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.

  Suze Orman

  Inspirational, Business, Power

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• When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

  H. L. Mencken

  Peace, War, Oppression

  "The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations" edited by Antony Jay, 1996.

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• We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.

  Simon Newcomb

  Knowledge, Science, Astronomy

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• Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

  Robert Smithson

  Art, Asking, Exhibitions

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.154, Univ of California Press

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• Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Understanding, Democracy

  Elizabeth Drew (2014). “Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall”, p.242, The Overlook Press

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• The best advice is to take it easy, respect speed limits and do not try to make up time lost in the tailbacks on the open road.

  Emma Caulfield

  Advice, Trying, Speed

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• In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.

  Trevor Nunn

  Integrity, Artistic, Theater

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• From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.

  Walt Whitman

  Lines, Hours, Imaginary

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.228, NYU Press

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• Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Believe, Aunt, East

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• You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.

  Richard Bach

  Son, Light, Numbers

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

  Dee Hock

  Motivational, Integrity, Knowledge

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• Whatever limits us we call fate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Fate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.

  Billy Crudup

  Limitless

  "Crudup's in the Running / Star of `Without Limits' could be the Next Big Thing" by Ruthe Stein, www.sfgate.com. October 04, 1998.

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• Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

  George Jackson

  Inspirational, Patience, Fear

  George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press

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• I scared myself, because once you've thought long and hard enough about doing something that is colossally stupid, you feel like you've actually done it, and then you're never quite sure what your limits are.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Stupid, Long, Done

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Twisted”, p.92, Scholastic UK

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• Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

  Greil Marcus

  Drama, Escaping

  Greil Marcus (2015). “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition”, p.143, Penguin

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• The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Wisdom, Communication, Philosophical

  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Proposition 5.6 (1922)

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• You can do anything, but not everything.

  David Allen

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Powerful

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• It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Religious, Freedom

  "The Age of Louis XIV". Book by Voltaire, 1751.

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