Quotes with limit

  • To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.
  • Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
  • A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
  • The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.
  • Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
  • If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
  • If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Charles F. Kettering Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Charles Lamb A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Jane Harrison A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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  • Maria Montessori An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Seneca 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.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Ernest Renan As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Anthony Weiner At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Thomas B. Aldrich Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
    Thomas B. Aldrich
    American writer, editor (1836 - 1907)
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  • Madonna Don't be fooled, not much has changed - certainly not for women. We still live in a very sexist society that wants to limit people.
    Cosmopolitan, May 2015
    Madonna
    American musician, singer and actress (1958 - )
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  • Bradley A. Smith Every major federal campaign-finance-reform effort since 1943 has attempted to treat corporations and unions equally. If a limit applied to corporations, it applied to unions; if unions could form PACs, corporations could too; and so on. DISCLOSE is the first major campaign-finance bill that has not taken this approach.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Charles M. Schwab Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Nicholas Boileau He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
    Nicholas Boileau
    French poet and critic (1636 - 1711)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extravagance! it depends on how you are yarded.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Alan Greenspan I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Betty Grable I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.
    Betty Grable
    American actress, model, and singer (1916 - 1973)
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  • B. D. Wong If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Bruce Lee If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Benjamin Stockham In acting, you can always grow and get better - even if you think you're at your limit.
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