Limitations Quotes: Insights to Overcome Barriers

"No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character"

"The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection"

"You are the architect of your own destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering wheel of your own life. There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be except the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking"

Ben Sweetland, Author

"Set high standards and few limitations for yourself"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment"

William J. Brennan, Jr., Judge

"I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations"

Barbra Streisand, Actress

"The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like"

Michael Badnarik, Politician

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies"

Willa Cather, Author

"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses"

John F. Kennedy, President

"The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse"

Helen Keller, Author

"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, Author

"Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement"

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

"The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel"

James Thurber, Comedian

"Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers"

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

"I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer"

Manuel Puig, Author

"Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth"

Victor Borge, Musician

"Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

"Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way"

Johnny Cash, Musician

"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations"

Orson Welles, Actor

"My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think"

Greta Garbo, Actress

"Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

"I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations"

Saul Williams, Musician

"Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available"

Howard Gardner, Psychologist

"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again"

James Cook, Explorer

"Whatever its other limitations, the Big Apple and those who live there make room for their dogs and cats, take good care of them and abide by the rules made necessary by a huge population"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for your opponent. You see the opportunity but also greater limitations than you should. I have always believed in what I do on the chessboard, even when I had no objective reason to. It is better to overestimate your prospects than underestimate them"

Magnus Carlsen

"It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists"

John Yoo, Educator

"The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame"

Paul Farmer, Educator

"If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life"

Kevin Costner, Actor

"I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations"

Gustav Heinemann, Politician

"Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content"

John Dykstra, Scientist

"There are interactions with characters within the game which I think are pretty neatly done considering the limitations that you have to work with. I mean, a computer can't really generate a character that talks back and forth with you successfully"

Fred Saberhagen, Author

"People mistake their limitations for high standards"

Jean Toomer, Author

"If you accept your limitations you go beyond them"

Brendan Francis, Playwright

"As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind"

Cleveland Amory, Historian

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