Best ability & limits Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.”

“The greenhouse crisis is the bill coming due for the Industrial Revolution. It's not an accident. It's the logical outcome of our world view - the idea that we can control the forces of nature, that we can have short-term expedient gains without paying for them, that there are no limits to exploitation of the environment, that we can produce and consume faster than nature's ability to replenish.”

“Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.”

Wells Persons Ability Limits Committed Selected Axioms

Author:Tom Peters

“Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought.”

Giving Doe States Ability Limits Absolutes Finals Certainty Assurance Prevailing

Book:Method, Process, and Austrian Economics: Essays in Honor of Ludwig Von Mises

Source: Method, Process, and Austrian Economics: Essays in Honor of Ludwig Von Mises

“He is a pandit (man of knowledge) who speaks what is suitable to the occasion, who renders loving service according to his ability, and who knows the limits of his anger.”

Knows Men Speak Ability Limits Occasions Suitable Pandit

Author:Chanakya

“In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users at each end. My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers' ability to get access to services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.”

World Want Firsts Ends Bigs Choices Ability Pay Steps Middle Internet Limits Concern Paid Customers Access Users Tolls Providers

Author:Vinton Cerf

“It's hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray. It ties up the Republicans in Congress and limits their ability to execute any White House agenda.”

Ifs Hard House Ability White Republican Limits Congress Ties Agendas White House Momentum Disarray

Author:Calvin Jillson

“Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.”

People Ifs Knows World Giving Feels Certain Ability Doubt Limits Behavior Loyalty Devotion Obligation Justify Assured

Book:Autobiography

Source: Autobiography

“I've never had a block. I'm talking within the limits of my abilities. But in my own small way, I've had an embarrassment of riches. I'll have five ideas and I'm dying to do them all. It takes weeks or months where I agonize and obsess over which to do next. I wish sometimes someone would choose for me. If someone said, Do idea number three next, that would be fine. But I have never had any sense of running dry.”

Ifs Way Said Ideas Sometimes Would Be Running Three Next Wish My Own Ability Numbers Talking Five Week Dying Fine Months Limits Riches Block Dry Embarrassment Number Three

Author:Woody Allen

“Obama has already demonstrated an extraordinary ability to change the limits of what one can say publicly. His greatest achievement up to now is that, in his refined non-provocative way, he has introduced into public speech topics which had hitherto been de facto unsayable: the continuing importance of race in politics, the positive role of atheists in public life, the necessity to talk with "enemies" like Iran or Hamas, and so on. This is just what US politics needs today more than anything, if it is to break out of its gridlock: new words which will change the way we think and act.”

“In 302, the Roman emperor Diocletian commanded "there should be cheapness," declaring, "Unprincipled greed appears wherever our armies ... march. ... Our law shall fix a measure and a limit to this greed." The predictable result of Diocletian's food price controls were black markets, hunger and food confiscation by his soldiers. Despite the disastrous history of price controls, politicians never manage to resist tampering with prices -- that's not a flattering observation of their learning abilities.”

Should Law Black Ability Results Politician Limits Army Greed Soldier Hunger Despite Manage Observation March Predictable Emperor Flattering Declaring Cheapness Roman Emperor

Author:Walter E. Williams

“When society is rightly organized, the wife and mother will have time, wish and will to grow intellectually, and will know that the limits of her sphere, the extent of her duties, are prescribed only by the measure of her ability.”

Knows Mother Wish Grows Ability Wife Duty Limits Organized Spheres Wives And Mothers

Book:Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

“Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is democratic and respects human rights, it too may well be a source of much greater instability as political repression limits the ability of the people of Nigeria to achieve their full potential.”

“I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.”

Light Jobs Used Father Ability Car Limits

Author:Adam Ferrara

“A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.”

Source: The Prince

“They [women] can use their abilities to support each other, even as they develop more effective and appropriate ways of dealing with power.... Women do not need to diminish other women[they] need the power to advance their own development, but they do not "need" the power to limit the development of others.”

Way Needs Use Women Ability Power Support Development Limits Feminist Developing Limitation Appropriate Improving Diminish Effectiveness Advancing Dealings

Author:Jean Baker Miller

“Women know, and so do many men, that two or three children who are wanted, prepared for, reared amid love and stability, and educated to the limit of their ability will mean more for the future of the black and brown races from which they come than any number of neglected, hungry, ill-housed and ill-clothed youngsters. Pride in one's race, as will simple humanity, supports this view.”

Source: Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

“We should explore new ways to drive down the cost of space travel. instead of costly booster rockets, maybe we should think of laser/microwave driven rockets, or space elevators. Until then, the cost of space exploration will limit our ability to explore the universe.”

Thinking Way Should Universe Ability Space Cost Limits Driven Exploration New Ways Rockets Space Exploration Elevators Space Travel Lasers Microwaves

Author:Michio Kaku

“It is a serious mistake to judge God within the narrow limits of our own understanding and abilities.”

Understanding Ability Mistake Serious Judging Limits Serious Mistakes

Author:Sterling W Sill

“In any walk of life, a positive, upbeat outlook trumps any adversarial act. Revenge is counterproductive. Unproductive emotions limit one's ability to move forward, to focus, to think positively, to act creatively.”

Thinking Moving Ability Walks Emotion Kindness Focus Trump Limits Revenge Moving Forward Outlook Positively Walks Of Life Counterproductive Upbeat Think Positively Unproductive

Author:Jon Huntsman, Jr.

“The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.”

Prayer Ability Promise Limits

Author:Edward McKendree Bounds

“Having certain limits - not too many, but certain limits on an ability to tell a story - makes us work harder, me and my writers. Sometimes I watch a giant movie with a $250 million budget and I think they feel kind of bloated, and that if they'd been leaner and meaner they might've had better storytelling.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Kind Sometimes Stories Might Certain Ability Watches Millions Hard Work Limits Harder Storytelling Budgets Giants Work Harder

Author:Vince Gilligan

“Every child has a right to know how to achieve control of his body in order that he may use it to the limit of his ability for the expression of his own reactions to life. Even if he can never carry his efforts far enough to realize dance in its highest forms, he may experience the sheer joy of the rhythmic sense of free, controlled, and expressive movement, and through this know an addition to life to which every human being is entitled.”

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