“The amazing thing is that throughout Scripture and history it seems God has chosen the most seemingly unlikely and unqualified people to fulfill his plan and purpose on the earth. Most often, the response of those people has been to insist on their own unworthiness. And if they don’t-the people around them may do so, loudly and shrilly. And therein lies a danger: If we allow other people to tell us what we are and are not qualified to do, we will limit what God wants to do with us.” PeopleIfsWantMayHas BeensSeemsEarthLyingPurposePlansDangerLimitsResponseScriptureChosenUnlikelyQualifiedAmazing ThingsUnqualified Author:Christine Caine
“There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.” PurposePromiseLimitsArmyNotesPunishmentChecksDiplomacyMissilesCondemnation Author:George W. Bush
“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.” IfsWantMeanEndsLightPurposeDemocracyLimitsDetermined Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“There are contingency plans in the NATO doctrine to fire a nuclear weapon for demonstrative purposes, to demonstrate to the other side that they are exceeding the limits of toleration in the conventional area.” PurposeSidesPowerFirePlansLimitsWeaponsAreasNuclearDoctrineNuclear WeaponsConventionalNatoTolerationContingencyContingency Plans Author:Alexander Haig
“It is tragic to have to realize that the best I had to give as a soldier, obedience, and loyalty, was exploited for purposes which could not be recognized at the time, and that I did not see that there is a limit set even for a soldier's performance to his duty. That is my fate.” GivingPurposeRealizingFateDutyLimitsPerformancesSoldierLoyaltyObedienceTragic Author:Wilhelm Keitel
“If the Bill of Rights was intended to place strict limits on federal power and protect individual and locality from the national government the 14th Amendment effectively defeated that purpose by placing the power to enforce the Bill of Rights in federal hands, where it was never intended to be.” IfsHandsGovernmentPurposeIndividualRightsProtectLimitsBillsAmendmentsDefeatedStrictBill Of RightsLocality14th Amendment Author:Ilana Mercer
“Not every child learns for the same purpose, not every child thrives in the same settings and schools. Limiting a child to just one opportunity does nothing more than limit that child's future. The way forward must involve more public charter schools, which offer parents a tuition-free alternative to their neighborhood school.” WayChildrenDoeSchoolPurposeOpportunityParentEducationOffersLimitsSettingSettingsAlternativesJust OneThriveNeighborhoodCharterTuitionWay ForwardCharter Schools Author:Rick Perry
“One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way that, for practical purposes, only those were immoral who drank too much or made too copious love. Those who indulged in any or all of the other deadly sins could look down in righteous indignation on the lascivious and the gluttonous.... In the name of all lechers and boozers I most solemnly protest against the invidious distinction made to our prejudice.” WayLooksMadePurposeNamesSinToo MuchCenturyLimitsPrejudicePracticalsReputationTriumphDistinctionProtestRighteousImmoralDrankNineteenth CenturyIndignationConnotationDeadly SinsRighteous Indignation Author:Aldous Huxley
“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.” MindPersonsBodyMotivationalPurposeSportsGoalHoursPracticeProgressMinutesChangedLimitsSelf ImprovementTrainingCapacityTasksOneselfImprovementChampionMasterySessionMind And BodyExpertiseEvery SecondOuter LimitsChanged Person Author:Matthew Syed
“The inspiration of a noble cause involving human interests wide and far, enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before, and which they were not capable of alone. The consciousness of belonging, vitally, to something beyond individuality; of being part of a personality that reaches we know not where, in space and time, greatens the heart to the limit of the souls ideal, and builds out the supreme character.” KnowsMenLifeGivingHumansHeartSoulCharacterDreamInspirationMotivationalPurposeCausesInterestCommunitySpaceConsciousnessPersonalityLimitsCapableIdealsIndividualityWideNobleSupremeFulfillmentMeaning Of LifeBelongingTime And SpaceGiving BackInvolvingInterdependenceLife MeansNoble Causes Author:Joshua Chamberlain
“It is not good for a man to be too cognizant of his physical and spiritual mechanisms. Complete knowledge reveals limits to human possibilities, and the less a man is by nature limited in his purposes, the less he can tolerate limits.” MenHumansSpiritualPurposePossibilityLimitsMechanismTolerateCognizant Author:Stanislaw Lem
“Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.” PurposeCitiesStreetsLimitsHostMerchantsSwarmsSolicitors Author:Charles Fourier
“Either the material order is the whole of being, wherein all transcendence is an illusion, or it is the phenomenal surface - mysterious, beautiful, terrible, harsh, and haunting - of a world of living spirits.... One should... be able to recognize that it is only the latter view that has ever had the power - over centuries and in every realm of human accomplishment - to summon desire beyond the boring limits marked by mortality, to endow the will with constancy and purpose, and to shape imagination towards ends that should not be possible within the narrow economies of the flesh.” WorldShouldHumansEndsWholeAbleBeautifulSpiritDesirePurposeOrderImaginationViewsEconomyCenturyMaterialsTerribleShapesLimitsIllusionBoringSurfaceFleshMysteriousAccomplishmentRealmsLatterMortalityHarshHauntingTranscendencePhenomenalConstancy Author:David Bentley Hart
“Magic is a set of techniques and approaches which can be used to extend the limits of Achievable Reality. Our sense of Achievable Reality is the limitations which we believe bind us into a narrow range of actions and successes - what we believe to be possible for us at any one time. In this context, the purpose of magic is to simultaneously explore those boundaries and attempt to push them back - to widen the 'sphere' of possible action.” BelieveRealityActionUsedPurposeMagicLimitsApproachTechniqueBoundariesLimitationRangeOne TimeSpheresEsoteric Author:Phil Hine
“(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. There were no shelters. There were no final purposes. Futility, and freedom, were Absolute” MenPurposeMankindLimitsAbsolutesFinalsShelterBlindnessFutility Book:Schismatrix Plus Source: Schismatrix Plus
“Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.” MindEndsMotivationalPurposeGoalViewsEffortStruggleLimitsMotivational SportsMartial Arts Book:Tao of Jeet Kune Do Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“Call them rules or call them limits, good ones, I believe, have this in common: they serve reasonable purposes; they are practical and within a child's capability; they are consistent; and they are an expression of loving concern.” BelieveChildrenPurposeI BelieveCommonExpressionLimitsConcernParentingPracticalsReasonableConsistentCapability Author:Fred Rogers
“If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.” IfsWantInspirationalInspirationSeemsMotivationalPurposeChoicesLeftVisionLimitsCompromiseAspirationReasonableVisionariesLife ChoicesDisconnectedChase Your DreamsMaking ChoicesVision Of LifeChoices And DecisionsCreative VisionPath Of Least ResistanceMission And VisionNever CompromiseLeadership VisionFeeling StuckLeadership And VisionVisionary LeadersVisionary LeadershipSpiritual VisionLimiting YourselfDisconnecting Author:Robert Fritz