Best limits & self 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.”

“As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or authority. But it will also lead to apathy, excessive obedience, uncritical conformity, lack of resistance against authoritarian discourse, self-abnegation, and fear of freedom.”

Children Self Might Causes Society Position Students Discipline Limits Authority Resistance Obedience Conformity Apathy Discourse Rebellious Authoritarianism Abnegation

Book:Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

“The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.”

Humans Self Limits Achievement Addiction Life Wisdom

Author:Denis Waitley

“Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change.”

“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 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

“Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength.”

Self Play Limits Structure Chosen Yield Intensity Spontaneity Ignite Amplify Containment

Author:Stephen Nachmanovitch

“The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch; it's good to know your personal limit.”

Knows Art Different Self Artist Levels Mystery Influence Balance Limits Art Is Tolerance Pursuit Delicate Different Levels Scotch Assertiveness Personal Limits

Author:Robert Genn

“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

“Finally, a Jeet Kune Do man who says Jeet Kune Do is exclusively Jeet Kune Do is simply not with it. He is still hung up on his self-closing resistance, in this case anchored down to reactionary pattern, and naturally is still bound by another modified pattern and can move within its limits. He has not digested the simple fact that truth exists outside all molds; pattern and awareness is never exclusive. Again let me remind you Jeet Kune Do is just a name used, a boat to get one across, and once across it is to be discarded and not to be carried on one's back.”

Men Stills Self Facts Moving Used Names Simple Cases Awareness Limits Let Me Bounds Patterns Resistance Boat Hung Exclusive Closing Mold Reactionaries Discarded

Author:Bruce Lee

“Scholars, who pride themselves on speaking their minds, often engage in a form of self-censorship which is called "realism." To be "realistic" in dealing with a problem is to work only among the alternatives which the most powerful in society put forth. It is as if we are all confined to a, b, c, or d in the multiple choice test, when we know there is another possible answer. American society, although it has more freedom of expression than most societies in the world, thus sets limits beyond which respectable people are not supposed to think or speak.”

Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

“Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years.”

Years Self Genius Thousand Limits Twelve Self Control Thousand Years

Author:Wilhelm Frick

“Once self-killing is an acceptable answer, how do you logically limit it to the dying? What about the disabled, who may live longer and suffer more?”

May Self Suffering Answers Dying Limits Killing Acceptable Disabled

Author:Wesley J. Smith

“If I never explore my limits, my bodymind will gradually tighten and become unconscious. If I regularly explore my limits in a caring and adventuresome fashion, I will expand and grow in a vital fashion. But if I try to push myself past where I am honestly able to go, I will no longer be practicing yoga but instead will be practicing greed, and I will probably be met by pain and disease. Stated simply, it is the difference between ignoring your self, making love to yourself, and raping yourself.”

Ifs Trying Self Able Pain Past Grows Differences Fashion Mets Limits Disease Yoga Greed Caring Honestly Unconscious Making Love

Author:Ken Dychtwald

“Self-confidence is the most important thing, and this comes from identifying your goals, knowing your limits and roping in all the help you can get.”

Important Self Helping Goal Knowing Limits Important Things Self Confidence Identifying

Author:Shirley Conran

“In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. if someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly.”

Ifs Littles Persons Self Whole Walks Limits Abuse Whole Life Tolerate

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“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.”

“The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.”

Self Results Creation Limits Determination Infinite Notion Extremes Cosmos Self Determination Mixtures Expanse

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world.”

World Doe Self Subjects Limits Solipsism

Book:Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“Determination and persistence are melded together. Their basis comes from people who stay hungry and don`t allow themselves to get too comfortable. Entering a comfort zone is the fastest way to kill your drive and determination, at which point you begin to accept whatever you have as being "good enough." There is no self-esteem in accepting the status quo. There are tremendous emotional and psychological rewards that come with pushing yourself to break through past limits and, in the process, creating something of value for yourself and others.”

“We have to reformulate moral standards. Human beings have to impose limits on themselves when it comes to their actions and desires. There is a beautiful and very radical notion in the bible: Man is made in the image of God, no matter how sick, poor or damaged he is. We should try to transpose this maxim to our secular and constitutional self-image.”

Men Should Trying Humans Made Self Matter Action Beautiful Desire Human Beings Poor Moral Limits Standards Sick Notion Radical Secular Maxims God Image

Author:Gotz Aly

“Be all you can be in whatever you choose to do. The sky is the limit, so go for it. And do not create any self-imposed limitations.”

Self Sky Limits Limitation You Choose Sky Is The Limit

Author:Nick Saban

“There were times, earlier in my career, where I didn't have the wherewithal to self-edit, and I probably said things and pushed the limits to places where people might be put off. But that's truly part of developing as an artist.”

People Said Self Might Artist Careers Limits Developing Edits

Author:Dane Cook

“The goal of this generation's pioneers should be to restrict procreation and limit consumption. They should also take every opportunity to make themselves happy, realizing that the key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously.”

Should Kind Self Opportunity Goal Realizing Generations Keys Limits Oneself Consumption Refusal Pioneers This Generation Procreation

Author:Tom Robbins

“America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else's rights.”

Needs Self America Individual Rights Expression Limits Determination Victim Harm Self Determination Individual Happiness

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“Few things infuse a member of Congress with more courage than self-imposed term limits or an imminent retirement. The issues they choose to focus on in their final months say a great deal about what are really the most important issues in the country.”

Important Self Country Political Politics Term Deals Issues Focus Months Limits Members Finals Congress Retirement Important Issues Term Limits

Book:Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

Source: Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

“When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.”

Knows Self Work Limits Inner Self

Author:Matthew Fox

“I thought The Limits of Control could be interpreted in two ways: as the limits of one's self-control; and as the limits of allowing other people's control over one's - consciousness - which I kind of thought was a double meaning that was appropriate.”

People Way Kind Two Self Consciousness Limits Appropriate Allowing Self Control Two Ways Double Meaning

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“The Western world is ... looked upon as being arrogant, self-satisfied, greedy and with no limits. And Sept. 11 is an occasion for me to realize it even more.”

World Self Realizing Limits Western Satisfied Occasions Arrogant Greedy Western World Sept 11

Author:Jean Chretien

“The self identity of Man is transcultural, and thus cannot have any single point of reference. Pluralism is not synonymous with tolerance of a variety of opinions. Pluralism amounts to the recognition of the unthinkable, the absurd, and up to a limit, intolerable. Reality in itself does not need to be transparent intelligible.”

Men Needs Doe Self Reality Opinion Identity Amount Limits Tolerance Absurd Recognition Variety Transparent Unthinkable Self Identity Pluralism Pluralism Is

Author:Raimon Panikkar

“Here, I think, is another clue to finding true self and vocation: we must withdraw the negative projections we make on people and situations - projections that serve mainly to mask our fears about ourselves- and acknowledge and embrace our own liabilities and limits.”

People Thinking Self Situation Limits Findings Negative Embrace Acknowledge Mask True Self Clue Vocation Projection Liability

Book:Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

Source: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

“The right way is the greatest gratifier of human wishes ever come upon - when allowed to operate. It is as morally sound as the Golden Rule. It is the way of willing exchange, of common consent, of self-responsibility, of open opportunity. It respects the right of each to the product of his labor. It limits the police force to keeping the peace. It is the way of the free market, private property, limited government. On its banner is emblazoned Individual Liberty.”

“If you are self-motivated, wow, this world is tailored for you. The boundaries are all gone. But if you're not self-motivated, this world will be a challenge because the walls, ceilings and floors that protected people are also disappearing. That is what I mean when I say "it is a 401(k) world." Government will do less for you. Companies will do less for you. Unions can do less for you. There will be fewer limits, but also fewer guarantees. Your specific contribution will define your specific benefits much more. Just showing up will not cut it.”

“If you feel inadequate to face challenges, unworthy of love or respect, untitled to happiness, and fear assertive thought, wants, or needs- if you lack basic self trust, self-respect, and self-confidence- your self-esteem deficiency will limit you, no matter what other assets you possess.”

Ifs Want Needs Feels Self Matter Faces Challenges Self Esteem Limits No Matter What Self Confidence Esteem Self Respect Assets Inadequate Unworthy Deficiency Assertive Self Trust

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“Each personal limit you exceed, each boundary you cross, verifies that most limits are indeed self imposed. Your potential and possibilities are far greater than you can ever imagine. You are capable of far more than you ever thought.”

Self Greater Imagine Possibility Limits Capable Crosses Boundaries Exceed Verify Personal Limits

Author:Robert J Kriegel

“I'm interested in the self. And in the limits and transformations of self. And in self presentation. And in doubt. And in playing with the audience's expectations. But I don't like dressing up like on Halloween.”

Self Audience Doubt Limits Expectations Transformation Halloween Dressings Presentation Dressing Up

Author:Rachel Zucker

“There is always enough self-love hidden beneath the greatest devoutness to set limits on charity.”

Love Self Enough Self Love Limits Charity

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their limits and their self-preservation.”

World Stills Self Views Leader Limits Rational Regimes Preservation Twisted Calculations Self Preservation World View

Author:Barack Obama

“The idea of self-determination was gradually given credibility by international law, and it lent strong emancipatory support to movements of liberation struggling against a West-centric world order. Latin American countries used international law creatively, both to limit the protection of foreign investment by establishing the primacy of national sovereignty in relation to natural resources, and by building support for the norm on non-intervention in internal affairs.”

“Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.”

Self Hell Limits Faustus Mephistopheles

Book:The works of Christopher Marlowe

Source: The works of Christopher Marlowe

“I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.”

Two Self Facts Fiction Limits Extremes Decades Revelations Display Personal Life Caution Public Life Limelight Self Revelation Fact And Fiction

Author:James McGreevey

“I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.”

People Self Feelings Would Be Hours Minutes Limits Sorry Pity Waking Self Pity Feeling Sorry

Book:Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

“A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes - within the limits of endowment and environment- he has made out of himself. In the concentration camps, for example, in this living laboratory and on this testing ground, we watched and witnessed some of our comrades behave like swine while others behaved like saints. Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions.”

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

“Our actions in this world, and our ability to rise above the limits of our own self-interest, live on far beyond us and play their humble part in shaping a world of spirituality and peace.”

World Self Play Action Spirituality Interest Ability This World Limits Humble Our Actions Rise Above Self Interest

Author:Kent Nerburn

“There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.”

Thinking World Humans Doe Self Wisdom Understanding Knowing Mystery Ignorance Fool Limits Mark Genuine Destroyed Limitation Deception Self Deception

Author:Mortimer Adler

“But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence. Hence to demythologize is to interpret myth, that is, to relate the objective representations of the myth to the self-understanding which is both shown and concealed in it.”

Men World Self Understanding Term Existence Destiny Limits Relation Foundation Myth Objectives Relate Explanation Representation Concealed Other Worlds Self Understanding

Book:The Conflict of Interpretations

Source: The Conflict of Interpretations

“Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self. Don't limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean.”

Humans Self Water Human Beings Limits Ocean Mere Unlimited Fountain Recycling Reservoirs

Author:Vera Nazarian

“I want to be remembered as an imaginer, someone who used his imagination as a way to journey beyond the limits of self, beyond the limits of flesh and blood, beyond the limits of even perhaps life itself, in order to discover some sense of order in what appears to be a disordered universe. I'm using my imagination to find meaning, both for myself and, I hope, for my readers."-Clive Barker”

Way Want Self Used Order Universe Imagination Blood Journey Reader Limits Flesh Remembered My Imagination Flesh And Blood

Author:Clive Barker

“Love consists of a commitment which limits one's freedom - it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one's freedom on behalf of another.”

Giving Mean Self Limits Commitment Oneself Behalf

Book:Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body

Source: Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body

“For although a man is judged by his actions, by what he has said and done, a man judges himself by what he is willing to do, by what he might have said, or might have done—a judgment that is necessarily hampered, not only by the scope and limits of his imagination, but by the ever-changing measure of his doubt and self-esteem.”

Men Said Self Done Might Action Imagination Doubt Self Esteem Willing Judging Limits Judgment Esteem Judged Scope Said And Done

Author:Eleanor Catton

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