Explore Quotes on Limits

There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

Here the free spirit of mankind, at length,_x000D__x000D_Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place_x000D__x000D_A limit to the giant's unchained strength,_x000D__x000D_Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?

I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen only if superior men are given absolute freedom to think what they want to think and say what they want to say. I am against any man and any organization which seeks to limit or deny that freedom... [and] the superior man can be sure of freedom only if it is given to all men.

No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it. Irrespective of our conscious convictions, each one of us, without exception, being a particle of the general mass, is somewhere attached to, colored by, or even undermined by the spirit which goes through the mass. Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn on the looters.

Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

Somebody who talks about how much they're eating and counts calories is unattractive to me. And when you limit yourself in the things you eat, it affects your mood. I've seen people who are a nightmare to be around because they're not eating. That's why I always have an apple in my purse or a Luna Bar in the glove box in case I get stuck in traffic - I don't even want to be alone in the car with myself if I'm hungry!

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

I don't think you should let your age stop anything you want to do. Don't put an age limit on your dreams.

Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.

For although a man is judged by his actions, by what he has said and done, a man judges himself by what he is willing to do, by what he might have said, or might have done—a judgment that is necessarily hampered, not only by the scope and limits of his imagination, but by the ever-changing measure of his doubt and self-esteem.

Bad news has no limits. We often feel it should, like a rainstorm that can't possibly get any heavier. But a storm can always worsen, & the burdens of life can too.