Top 1200 Personal Limits Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.

Parkour is really a practice of getting to know yourself, what you're able to do, what are your limits. As you train, you start knowing what you can do.

A playwright who limits himself - or is limited - to a handful of characters is forced to concentrate on the essentials of the situation that he has chosen to portray.

There should be limits morally and legally as to how far you are willing to go to try to hurt someone and their family.

The high seas - in other words, the oceans beyond the 200-mile national limits - are a lawless realm.

As a child, I have seen what poverty is, and I try, to the best of my limits, to ensure that no kid should be deprived of his ambitions.

Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.

You can only get better if you're prepared to go beyond your limits at times. That's very important for success.

The beauty of running is its simplicity; the beauty of runners is that we all have a similar drive to improve. We are either trying to run a personal best, or toeing the line for the first time, which will snowball into a future of trying to run personal bests. We road racers are a tight community of mileage-happy, limit-pushing athletes.

When you think that you are done you're only 40% in to what your body's capable of doing.that's just the limits that we put on ourselves.

I believe in term limits for presidents because I think that there is no doubt I'm a better president now than I was when I start.

True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.

I think that, honestly, people's censorship issues are personal but I disagree with most of those personal choices that I see others make. You know, I watch television and there's a grotesque amount of violence on almost every show that you would watch that comes on past 8:00 pm. And I think my dirty brand of humor is far less destructive to a child's mentality.

I do believe my personal spirituality, which spirituality itself I don't really equate to anything more than my personal connection with nature and the universe. With what is real, not a manmade contrivance. Finding a connection with those things through my music is something I've begun to take more seriously in order to understand why I feel that way.

I've always been political but I don't like to bring it into my work any more because I think it limits me.

Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all.

We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come to be widely believed that the use of private property is tainted with evil and should not be espoused by rational and civilized men... the only dependable foundation of personal liberty is the personal economic security of private property. The Good Society.

Few issues better illustrate the limits of the Obama administration's 'reset' with Russia than the crisis in Syria.

'Petrushka' was not conceived as a children's ballet, even though it involves puppets. We're on the outer limits of what's child-appropriate here.

Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you.

The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.

I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.

I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.

People don't find the personal lives of people with much, much more power than any celebrity would have - don't find their personal lives interesting.

The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.

The one thing I believe is that families are off-limits. And I think my husband said it, and he was clear on that. And I totally agree with him.

I've always believed that no subject is off-limits as long as you can find a way to make it significant, thoughtful, and interesting.

Personal power is the reflection of a person of knowledge. A person of knowledge, an enlightened person, a person even close to enlightenment, has a great deal of personal power.

The Rise credo is about accepting no limits, alternative thinking, and driving positive change - the three pillars.

I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy.

Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

The seasons of life are not meant to be frenetic, just full. Blessed is the woman who knows her own limits.

I can only speak from my personal journey and my personal struggles which are completely different from other individuals but if I can slightly help someone else understand themselves, then that's perfect. Because I only make music, there's so much emotion in the music itself that I hope people can tap into and feel the same way I feel when I listen to it.

We have an amazing engineering team in the company pushing the limits of device physics and some great partners in manufacturing.

Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn't express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

We should not be strangling ourselves economically by not utilizing the resources we have been given or by putting them off-limits.

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, among the world's richest men, believes his personal fortune can erase the liberty of every American who would exercise the right to keep and bear arms. He plans liquidation of our rights a step-at-a-time - spending millions of dollars of his bottomless personal fortune at a time.

Yeah, I was going to have no features on 'Bulletproof.' But I ended up putting Gucci Mane on it. That's just my partner. He's just one of my personal friends. It ain't no different for him from my homeboys in Memphis. I just have a real personal relationship. I met Gucci Mane through my partner Drumma Boy, the producer.

The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines of propaganda for the constantly-changing policies, desires, personal wishes, and personal likes and dislikes of two men? What the proprietorship of those papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

Your assignment of confidence limits each of the evidences, which allows for building a cumulative case for God's existence.

Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be.

If you get a personal genome, you should be able to get personal cell lines, stem cell derived from your adult tissues, that allow you to bring together synthetic biology and the sequencing so that you can repair parts of your body as you age or repair things that were inherited disorders.

We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.

Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table.

Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits - which was exactly where they were supposed to be.

Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities.

You can break through old limits, past inertia and fear, to... richness of choice, freedom, human closeness.

There are times in every friendship when you or your friend are too busy to call or are more focused on other relationships. It will hurt, but it's rarely personal. Making it personal usually makes things worse, and being too clingy or demanding can drive a friend even further away. Like people, friendships can get 'overworked' and need to rest.

I think religion is very personal. I definitely identify as Muslim. I consider myself practicing, but I don't think people who observe me from the outside would think of me as devout, and that doesn't bother me because one of the beauties of Islam is the fact that it is personal: you read the Koran, and what you believe is what you believe.

Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation.

Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beatifying that existence. He endowed him with rational faculties, by the help of which, to discern and pursue such things, as were consistent with his duty and interest, and invested him with an inviolable right to personal liberty, and personal safety.

The State has invariably shown a striking talent for the expansion of its powers beyond any limits that might be imposed upon it.

Nothing puts the dignity in personal dignity (or the freedom in personal freedom) like the self in self-rule.