Limitations Quotes

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To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

- Stephen Hawking

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right.

- Henry Ford

Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

- Sam Keen

Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God.

- Helen Keller

Imperfection is not our personal problem, it is a natural part of existing,

- Tara Brach

Imperfection is not our personal problem -- it is a natural part of existing.

- Tara Brach

It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years -- we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.

- Sharon Salzberg

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.

- Saint Francis de Sales

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

- Napoleon Hill

We may want to love other people without holding back, to feel authentic, to breathe in the beauty around us, to dance and sing. Yet each day we listen to inner voices that keep our life small.

- Tara Brach

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.

- Emerson M. Pugh

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Human fallibility being what it is, victory and truth do not always go together. Therefore, if you have to always win, you can't always be true.

- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.

- Bill Clinton

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

- Nicola Abbagnano

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The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.

- Thomas Jefferson

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

- Bertrand Russell

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

- Orison Swett Marden

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

- Agathon

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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

- Theodore Roosevelt

Injustice can be eliminated, but human conflicts and natural limitations cannot be removed. The conflicts of social life and the limitations of nature cannot be controlled or transcended. They can, however, be endured and survived. It is possible for there to be a dance with life, a creative response to its intrinsic limits and challenges ... [A Feminist Ethic of Risk]

- Sharon Welch

We need a coat with two pockets. In one pocket there is dust, and in the other pocket there is gold. We need a coat with two pockets to remind us who we are.

- Parker J. Palmer