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“As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.”

Men Should Limits Labor Noble Accomplishment

Author:Alexander the Great

“You may think you don't have talents, but that is a false assumption, for we all have talents and gifts, every one of us. The bounds of creativity extend far beyond the limits of a canvas or a sheet of paper and do not require a brush, a pen, or the keys of a piano. Creation means bringing into existence something that did not exist before-colorful gardens, harmonious homes, family memories, flowing laughter.”

“In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.”

Way War Talking Limits Concepts One Way Torture Negotiation Turkeys Consumed

Author:Osman Baydemir

“I will respect the limits of my experience but that won't stop me from trying to lead by example of my work. Being a good teammate and picking them up on and off the field is a simple goal of mine.”

Trying Goal Simple Example Fields Mines Limits Teammate And Off Good Team

Author:Anthony Rizzo

“If we believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the only begotten Son of God and that He came into this world and went to the cross of Calvary and died for our sins and rose again in order to justify us and to give us life anew and prepare us for heaven-if you really believe that, there is only one inevitable deduction, namely that He is entitled to the whole of our lives, without any limit whatsoever.”

Ifs World Giving Believe Whole Order Jesus Heaven Sin Our Lives This World Son Limits Crosses Died Rose Inevitable Justify Entitled Deductions Calvary Nazareth

Author:Martyn

“He said something was unique: I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do, and see if the officials take air out of it.”

Ifs Said Air Football Limits Unique Officials

Author:Aaron Rodgers

“I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A great chef. A great master of tea. There's powerful kung fu in a well-built house or an eloquent letter, but the limit of your imagination is bones breaking and bullets flying.”

“The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.”

Men Doe Culture Opportunity Environment Offers Limits Determine Outer Limits

Book:Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State

Source: Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State

“I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.”

Limits Senior Bureaucrats

Author:Alexander Lebedev

“I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.”

World Way Want Said Bigs Wanted Certain Born Taste Limits Experience Rounds Core Innocence Layers Chunks Biting

Author:Abba Kovner

“I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.”

Universe Sound Sides Limits Jazz Western Both Sides Asian African Music Western Music

Author:Joseph Jarman

“Color is a big part of what I do. It's like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, but there are endless permutations; there's no limit to the number. Color on the walls or furniture can reflect back and distort the reality of the true colors of lipsticks and eye shadow.”

Bigs Reality Eye Numbers Color Wall Limits Shadow Notes Scales Endless Furniture Lipstick True Colors

Author:Evelyn Lauder

“But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.”

Age Certain Limits Deserve

Author:C. S. Lewis

“When deep down in the core of your being you believe that your soulmate exists, there is no limit to the ways he or she can enter your life.”

Way Believe Limits Core Your Soul Mates Soulmate Deep Down Soul Mate Your Soulmate Soulmate Love My Soul Mate My Soulmate Your My Soulmate Soulmates And Love Inspirational Soulmate

Book:The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction

Source: The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction

“There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.”

May Country Military Limits Noble Aspiration Evoke

Author:William Ralph Inge

“People who observe no limits in attempting to get work done aren't nearly as smart as they think. Hard work can be done by any fool. But to be highly productive, and still have plenty of time to rest and play, this is where true genius resides.”

People Thinking Inspirational Stills Hard Done Play Hard Work Fool Genius Limits Smart Plenty Productive Attempting Work Done True Genius

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU.”

Inspirational Doe Belief Company Limits Misery Mediocrity Limiting Beliefs

Author:Hal Elrod

“When you value your integrity at the highest level, living alignment with your word and following through with your commitments no matter what, there are no limits to what you can create for your life. However, when you make excuses, justify doing what easiest, and choose the path of least resistance, you will live a life of mediocrity, frustration and regret. Live with integrity as if your life depended on it, because it does.”

“There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown.”

Knows Said Seems Science Grows Knowledge Limits Research Surface Contact Spheres

Book:A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy & Religion

Source: A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy & Religion

“Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.”

Wells Long Law Science Quality Moral Study Limits Ethics Accounts Ethical Laws Of Nature Biological Science

Author:Ernst Boris Chain

“We must be willing to forgive without limit even as God forgives; otherwise we cannot be forgiven.”

Willing Limits Forgiveness Forgiving Forgiven God Forgives

Author:Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre

“When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference between humans and animals: Whereas animals are usually restrained by the limits of physical appetites, humans have mental appetites that can be far more gross and capacious than physical ones. Only humans squander and hoard, murder and pillage because of notions.”

Humans Differences Animal Dangerous Limits Murder Notion Critical Appetite Consumerism Gross Overconsumption Humans And Animals

Author:Wendell Berry

“Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Ideas States Order Loses Natural Animal Ought Limits Plant Size No Idea Consumerism Spoiled Overconsumption

Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“The sky is not the limit, only Heaven's the limit, and there's no limit in Heaven!”

Heaven Sky Limits Heavenly

Author:David Berg

“And I'm asking you for your good and for your nation's security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel. Every act of energy conservation like this is more than just common sense-I tell you it is an act of patriotism.”

“The end of nature sours all my material pleasures. The prospect of living in a genetically engineered world sickens me. And yet it is toward such a world that our belief in endless material advancement hurries us. As long as that desire drives us, here is no way to set limits.”

World Way Long Ends Desire Belief Pleasure Materials Future Limits Endless Advancement

Author:Bill McKibben

“When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to a sense of self, of ego.”

Self Hate Emotion Consciousness Doubt Buddhism Limits Ego Anxiety Mindfulness Negative Sense Of Self Meditating Negative Thoughts Thoughts And Emotions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

“Separation is painful, and there's such a thing as doing it too much - the limits are how much it hurts.”

Hurt Too Much Limits Painful Separation It Hurts

Author:Sam Waterston

“Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.”

Action Film Moving Enjoy Comedy Limits Machines Casts Coffee Chairs

Author:Stephen Fry

“What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.”

Men Grief Limits Beloved

Author:Horace

“The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.”

Humans Limits Tragedy Infinite Vain Human Life Unlimited Finite Ladders

Book:SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life

Source: SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life

“Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour.”

Lasts Time Hours Limits

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities.”

Want Art Rooms Possibility Limits Scientist Critics Boundaries Mathematician Busybodies

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.”

Wells May Mean Persons Desire Found Limits Absolutes Independence Fortune Abundance Contracts

Author:William Shenstone

“Limits the Romans' anxieties to two things - bread and games.”

Two Games Limits Anxiety Bread Two Things

Author:Juvenal

“Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution. From the nature of the Constitution, ... I must approve all the parts of a bill, or reject it in toto.”

Firsts Country President Limits Constitution Bills Rejects

Author:George Washington

“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

“The self-bound individual always forgets that his self would be safeguarded better and automatically the more he prepares himself for the welfare of mankind, and that in this respect no limits are set for him.”

Self Would Be Individual Forget Mankind Limits Bounds Welfare

Author:Alfred Adler

“It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast -- easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all.”

Ifs Believe Long Done Life Is Grows Easy Clear Limits Evident Great Work

Author:Alfred Adler

“This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.”

Ideas Government Fighting Individual Freedom Limits Individuality Eden Valuable Things East Of Eden Travels With Charley This I Believe Mind Freedom

Book:The Portable Steinbeck

Source: The Portable Steinbeck

“The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity.”

Men Lord Ignorance Limits Stupidity Definite

Author:Konrad Adenauer

“In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.”

May Certain Fall Pleasure Limits Amusement Immorality

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.”

World Years Reading This World Limits Take Me Indispensable

Book:Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)

“Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.”

World Decision Limits Logic

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... music is forever growing... music can be one element to help us build a new conception of life in which the madness and cruelty of wars will be replaced by a simple understanding of the brotherhood of man.”

“Live more and more in the Present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future.”

Past Beautiful Time Limits

Author:Meher Baba

“Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions date descry.”

Littles Adventure Limits Regions Reign Disdain Adventurer

Author:Thomas Gray

“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

“Without trying to clear up the degree of correctness of a qualification which no one, one must hope, will be asked to understand exactly, I will limit myself to a few words of explanation to cut short any misunderstandings.”

Trying Clear Cutting Limits Degrees Explanation Misunderstanding Correctness Qualifications Few Words

Author:Gustave Courbet

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