Best capacity & limits Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

Ifs Mind Born Limits Capacity Sticks Persistence Expansion Valve

Author:Charles M. Schwab

“Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary restriction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment , and increases the capacity for service .”

Want Real Self Remember Term Civilization Limits Capacity Increase Contentment Restraint Deliberate Restriction Indulgence Self Indulgence Real Happiness Multiplication

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“It is one thing to read the Scriptures and affirm their truth. But until you are in the trenches of trial, until you are faced with life circumstances that test your faith, until you are pressed to the absolute limit of your physical and emotional capacity, until you face the unrelenting stress of ongoing trauma, you never really know how you'll respond to what you may have embraced so easily during a comfortable Bible study.”

Knows May Faces Know How Study One Thing Emotional Circumstances Limits Comfortable Capacity Tests Stress Absolutes Trauma Scripture Trials Ongoing Bible Study Trenches Unrelenting

Author:Kevin Malarkey

“No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity.”

Humans Reason Limits Weakness Discovery Capacity Conclusion Scepticism Human Reason

Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

“Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the production of goods. Science in all its branches - physics, chemistry, biology, and psychology - is the servant and upholder of this system”

Humans Psychology Civilization Directors Limits Capacity Productions Driven Physics Servant Branches Biology Goods Chemistry Technological Machinery Multiplying

Author:Charles A. Beard

“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience-that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible-that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.”

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed to the limit the capacities with which one was endowed; that one has contributed something constructive to family and friends and to a home community; that one has brought happiness wherever it was possible; that one has earned one's way in the world, has kept some friends, and need not be ashamed to face oneself honestly.”

Men World Way Needs Home Seems Faces Success Lying Community Successful Limits Capacity Oneself Honestly Ashamed Family And Friends Constructive Successful Life

Book:If You Ask Me

Source: If You Ask Me

“While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the needs and rights of other than those to whom he is bound by organic and physical relationship, there are definite limits in the capacity of ordinary mortals which makes it impossible for them to grant to others what they claim for themselves.”

Needs Humans Human Beings Rights Impossible Limits Ordinary Capacity Claims Increase Bounds Mortals Impulse Range Grants Definite Benevolent Prompts

Book:Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)

Source: Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)

“The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no limitations ought to be imposed upon government. The older faith, born of long ages of suffering under man's dominion over man, was that the exercise of unlimited power by men with limited minds and self-regarding prejudices is soon oppressive, reactionary, and corrupt. The older faith taught that the very condition of progress was the limitation of power to the capacity and the virtue of rulers.”

“Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing.”

Limits Capacity Great Things Tested

Author:Paul Theroux

“We are the Captains of Spaceship Earth...we have the capacity to overcome our limits.”

Earth Limits Capacity Overcoming Captains Spaceships

Author:Jason Silva

“The practice sessions of aspiring champions have a specific and never-changing purpose: Progress. Every second of every minute of every hour, the goal is to extend one's mind and body, to push oneself beyond the outer limits of one's capacities, to engage so deeply in the task that one leaves the training session, literally, a changed person.”

“The power of magic has no known limits. A person knows, in a fair way, his own physical capacities, the weight of the blows he can deal, the furthest range of his arrows, the strength of his voice, the speed and endurance of his running; but the reaches of his mind are indefinite and, to his feeling, infinite.”

Knows Way Mind Persons Feelings Running Voice Deals Known Magic Limits Capacity Fairs Weight Infinite Blow Speed Range Endurance Arrows

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.”

Suffering Limits Capacity Satyagraha Time Limit

Book:The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

“The connectedness of things is what the educator contemplates to the limit of his capacity. No human capacity is great enough to permit a vision of the world as simple, but if the educator does not aim at the vision no one else will, and the consequences are dire when no one does.”

Ifs World Humans Doe Enough Simple Vision Teaching Limits Consequence Capacity Aim Permit Contemplating Educator Connectedness Human Capacity

Author:Mark Van Doren

“Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.”

Ifs Literature Fire Limits Capacity Program Organization Treats Add Managers Plastic Downsizing

Author:Kevin Kelly

“We want to limit the exploitation of the fiscal capacity of the richer regions by keeping down the rate of immigration to a level that would be meaningful and efficient. One way to do that is to have a scheme of equalization which essential bribes people to stay in the poorer regions.”

People Way Want Would Be Levels Limits Essentials Capacity Rate Meaningful Immigration One Way Regions Efficient Schemes Exploitation Bribe

Author:James M. Buchanan

“It's a dream where you live a life that's powerful, one in which you can get married if you want to, raise kids if you want to, get educated to the limit of your capacity, and do what makes you happy, because we all are looking for the good life. We don't want to go through life with just fighting, fighting, fighting.”

Ifs Want Dream Kids Fighting Powerful Limits Married Capacity Raises Educated Good Life Make You Happy Where You Live

Author:Daniel Inouye

“The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.”

World States Facts Government Lasts Humanity Choices Evil Principles Greater Modern Reader Limits Capacity Presses Newspapers Modern World Dregs Clearness Degeneration

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.”

Source: A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By

“There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.”

Soul Seems Suffering Limits Capacity Infinite Mortals Till We Have Faces

Book:Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold

Source: Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold

“My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it.”

Gratitude Limits Capacity

Book:The Player Of Games: A Culture Novel

Source: The Player Of Games: A Culture Novel

“Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer”

Trying Limits Capacity Theology Ships Relevant Relevance Loaded Bonhoeffer

Book:Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

Source: Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

“In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and enlarges that organ, and gives it a power proportional to the length of time it has been so used; while the permanent disuse of any organ imperceptibly weakens and deteriorates it, and progressively diminishes its functional capacity, until it finally disappears.”

Giving Has Beens Use Science Used Animal Development Evolution Limits Capacity Disappear Permanent Length Organs Diminish

Author:Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

“Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he is normal or retarded. ... We do not attempt to establish or prepare a prognosis and we leave unanswered the question of whether this retardation is curable, or even improveable. We shall limit ourselves to ascertaining the truth in regard to his present mental state.”

Knows Mind Children States Able Science Purpose Order Limits Normal Intellectual Capacity Intelligent Regard Diagnosis Retarded Unanswered Prognosis

Book:Works on Psychometrics

Source: Works on Psychometrics

“The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.”

Heart Violence Limits Capacity Hardest Heat Sufficient Yield Metals Non Violence Sufficiency Heart Melt

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“You can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit”

Inspirational Limits Capacity

Author:Hugh Nibley

“The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity.”

Limits Capacity

Author:Jacques Barzun

“There is a thrill of vulnerability at all airshows. There is no way of making everything completely safe. When the machines are being thrashed to capacity and the pilots are flying at their limits to dazzle, things are bound to go wrong sometimes. There have been some historic disasters, but the danger is a part of the attraction.”

Way Has Beens Sometimes Danger Safe Limits Capacity Machines Bounds Attraction Disaster Flying Flight Vulnerability Aviation Pilots Thrill Historic Dazzle

Author:Alex James

“I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.”

Thinking Trying Speak Effort Perspective Involved Limits Letting Go Capacity Bigger Ongoing Capacity To Love Trying To Let Go

Author:Meg Ryan

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