Quotes about Limitation

No matter what our circumstances, our greatest limitation isn't the leader above us—it's the spirit within us.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.

What place would that be, a whole world without roads? It was a panicking thought. A world without roads! He would go nowhere in such a place. He would be trapped where he was, he would have lived out his life only where he was born.

What numbers us imprisons us.

Truth could never be wholly contained in words.

No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.

If men could fit water into their pockets, the ocean would be empty.

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

The Philosopher says (Metaph. ii, 2) that "to suppose a thing to be indefinite is to deny that it is good." But the good is that which has the nature of an end. Therefore it is contrary to the nature of an end to proceed indefinitely. Therefore it is necessary to fix one last end.

It is precisely because He is omnipotent that for Him some things are impossible.

Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.