Quotes about Limitations

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.

And so- what can we get get done in those few hours and days and weeks and years? We are limited by time and by areas of talent and ability. So our creativity is not on God's level at all. His creativity is unlimited and infinite. Nevertheless we have been created in His image, so we can be, and are made to be, creative.

I really hate this darn machine; I wish that they would sell it. It won't do what I want it to, but only what I tell it.

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.

Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They're organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations. I, however, have limitations. In my desire to provide an ultimate protection for my people, I forbid a constitution.

I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.

Do you think things always have an explanation? Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

We'll never leave the solar system as long as we keep on thinking of time as a river flowing from one direction into the sea.

Secondly, [man] should weigh his abilities-or rather lack of abilities.

My personal belief is that the only thing keeping you from freedom is all the beliefs you have about what has to happen before you can be there.