Limits Quotes - Page 7

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.

The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.

The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.

The finest all-around performer we ever had in America was Judy Garland. There was no limit to her talent. She was the quickest, brightest person I ever worked with.

When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain ambitions that I should not entertain. That was a problem for me because I had never thought of myself as an African woman, never thought of myself as a woman to begin with. For me the limit was my capacity, my capability.

The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.

Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.

The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.

Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.

Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.

There are no speed limits on the road to success.

Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.

In terms of quantity, we've probably already reached the limit of what's feasible. I think a change of direction may be what's needed.

Think bigger. Forget limits. Embrace the idea of endless possibility.... It will change you.

There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.

I do not claim to have perfected an art but to have commenced one, the limits of which it is not possible at present exactly to ascertain.

There are no limits, and that applies to everyone on earth.

The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.

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.

There must be some limit to the thing. It cannot go on to infinity.

As I said, my parents loved that when they came to America, if you worked hard, the only things that could stop you were the limits you placed on yourself.

The imposition of taxes has its limits. There is a maximum which cannot be transcended. Suppose the citizen to be taxed by the general government to the utmost extent of his ability, or a thing as much as it can possibly bear, and the state imposes a tax at the same time, which authority is to take it?

Birth is what women do. Women are privileged to stand in such power! Birth stretches a woman's limits in every sense. To allow such stretching of one's limits is the challenge of pregnancy, birth, and parenting. The challenge is to be fully present and to allow the process because of inner trust.

Either push your limits or die.

Here at the quiet limit of the world.