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Quotes about Limits

Human sympathy has its limits.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Human sympathy has its limits, and we were content to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Human sympathy has its limits, and we were content to let all their tragic arguments fade
— F Scott Fitzgerald
You see, I am fate," it shouted, "and stronger than your puny plans; and I am how-things-turn-out and I am different from your little dreams, and I am the flight of time and the end of beauty and unfulfilled desire; all the accidents and imperceptions and the little minutes that shape the crucial hours are mine. I am the exception that proves no rules, the limits of your control, the condiment in the dish of life.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The First Amendment is not without limits.
— Jerry Falwell
If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.
— Brian Tracy
Our expectations set the limits for our lives. If you expect little, you're going to receive little. If you don't anticipate things to get better, then they won't. But if you expect more favor, more good breaks, a promotion, and an increase, then you will see new levels of favor and success.
— Joel Osteen
It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
Increased spiritual strength is a gift from God which He can give when we push in His service to our limits. Through the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, our natures can be changed. Then our power to carry burdens can be increased more than enough to compensate for the increased service we will be asked to give.
— Henry B. Eyring
Tithing is a bad ceiling but an excellent floor.
— John Ortberg
Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.
— Frank Herbert
To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will true nature be seen.
— Frank Herbert