Top 70 Know Your Limitations Quotes
#1. You realize the futility of worry. You learn to hate the small and the little. Life is a pie which you cut in large slices, not grudgingly, not sparingly. You know your limitations and proceed to eliminate them; your abilities, and proceed to develop them. You are free.
Alice Foote MacDougall
#2. Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.
Billy Childish
#3. Know your limitations and be content with them. Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can't do.
Ricky Gervais
#4. You won't know your limitations until you soar high and give it a try.
Vikrmn
#5. You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.
Johnny Cash
#6. If I had the gift of Jerry Seinfeld, of Bill Cosby, of Lewis Black, these instinctively brilliant comic minds, then you go that route! But you gotta know your limitations. I'm more of an actor, more of a process guy. I did Tom Snyder, just as Danny Aykroyd did on 'SNL.' I did it in the club.
Joe Piscopo
#7. You will never know your limitations until you find them.
David Murphy
#8. I think it's important to know your limitations too.
Kip Winger
#9. The greatest progress in life is when you know your limitations, and then you have the courage to drop them.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#10. Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.
Phillip E. Johnson
#11. If I must know something in order to believe in it, what I am able to believe in will be severely limited. If I choose to believe in something in order to know it, then what I believe in can be boundless.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#13. Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in 'measurements' when he did not know what he was measuring.
Robert A. Heinlein
#14. I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.
Corazon Aquino
#15. I'd always felt like it was only weak people who turned to God, but at that moment I realized maybe I was wrong: perhaps it was the other way around. Only those who were strong enough to admit their own, human limitations would know when to seek help and guidance.
Brownell Landrum
#16. We all have powers within us that we don't know exist until we're tested. There are no limitations to what you can do if you have the determination.
Christopher
#17. Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
James Baldwin
#19. A man's got to know his limitations."
Inspector Harry Callahan.
David Feeney
#20. I know my own limitations. And if somebody says, "I need songs for a cartoon garage band - they look like this and they should sound like this," it gives you a direction. I like having that kind of assignment.
Beck
#21. Love doesn't know limitations. It doesn't matter how you fall in love or the reasons you shouldn't, only that you do.
Jessica Frances
#22. Everyone is always doing as well as they can within their personal limitations, their personal history, what they know and don't know and what they're feeling in that moment. If they could make a healthier decision, they would. This includes you.
Carl Alasko
#23. The Bible explains that Satan is real, nurses a serious grudge and has impressive power. But having been created, he has limitations. He can never be equal to God in anything."
Kristine McGuire, An Insider's Guide to Spiritual Warfare, Chapter 3, "Know Your Enemy.
Kristine McGuire
#24. Doing risk sport had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you're right on the edge, but you don't go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means.
Yvon Chouinard
#25. Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!
E.A. Bucchianeri
#26. Our healthy shame is essential as the foundation of our spirituality. By reminding us of our essential limitations, our healthy shame lets us know that we are not God. Our healthy shame points us in the direction of some larger meaning. Our healthy shame is the psychological ground of our humility.
John Bradshaw
#28. I'm excited by the band [White Stripes]. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.
Jack White
#29. By acknowledging our boundaries and limitations, we attain greater heights than we ever will by appearing to think we know everything.
Graham Speechley
#31. [T]he more man accepts his limitations, the better is he enabled to know things truly.
Rousas John Rushdoony
#32. If you care to know, majority of successful people in the world were all struck by limitations in one way or the other. What made them great isn't the absence of limitations; but it was their persistence to rise in the face of those limitations.
Israelmore Ayivor
#33. You can do almost anything if you put your mind to it. Be it the perfect murder, robbing a bank or owning your own company. I don't go along with Prince Charles' maxim that everyone should know their place and limitations.
Stephen Richards
#34. When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.
Ben Horowitz
#35. So much of my writing derives from these questions that I ask myself - things that are utterly beyond my personal set of experiences - and it's my attempt to try to ... understand, to sort of break out of my own consciousness, you know, the limitations of my own life.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#36. It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing it.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#37. Nothing limits you like not knowing your limitations.
Tom Hayes
#38. It's important for a man to know his limitations, and my limitations started at moving to Peckham and hanging around with yardies, postcode wannabes and those weird, skinny white kids who don't get the irony in Eminem.
Ben Aaronovitch
#39. Don't condemn yourself - that only increases the hold of impurity. Accept your limitations but know that you're working towards changing them.
Frederick Lenz
#40. Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.
E. M. Forster
#41. We need to know that our limits do not define our limitations. And an empty tomb does exactly that.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#42. I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.
Joseph Fiennes
#43. The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.
Marv Levy
#44. We can't spend all day trying to get the performance exactly right and you just have to accept that and move on and accept the medium that you're working in and you know, there's a beauty in working under constraints and limitations. I think a lot of great things can come out of that.
Emily Deschanel
#45. Great sex is all about freedom and being everything you've always wanted to be. Know now that the only limits you have in regards to your own sexuality are the ones you impose on yourself.
Roberto Hogue
#46. Zuckerberg had the good sense to know both his own limitations and interests. He wanted an executive who would free him to do what he loved: code, and enhancing the Facebook platform.
Ken Auletta
#47. The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.
Benjamin Hoff
#48. Humble people know their limitations: they know what they know, and they know what they do not know; they know what they can do or be, and they know what they cannot do or be
John Adair
#49. Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
Leon Trotsky
#50. Just as a man working with his tools should know its limitations, a man working with his cognitive apparatus must know its limitations.
Charlie Munger
#52. I don't want to pretend to be a prophet or a saint. I'm very conscious of my limitations. I know my flaws. But I don't like lying.
Norman Finkelstein
#54. To transcend limitations and form positive new patterns of life based on who you know you can be rather than who you were yesterday, you must give up the modes of thinking, feeling and behaving that only keep you chained to your past.
Debbie Ford
#55. In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor,
Maurice Herzog
#56. The Venus Project is neither Utopian nor Orwellian, nor does it reflect the dreams of impractical idealists. Instead, it presents attainable goals requiring only the intelligent application of what we already know. The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves.
Jacque Fresco
#57. Find your bliss and your joy, know that you are a white light disco ball with no ceilings and no limitations.
Kris Carr
#58. Personal mastery begins by increasing our awareness about who we truly are, our strengths, limitations... Personal mastery can be achieved not only by being aware but also by controlling what is happening inside and around ourselves...
Assegid Habtewold
#59. I don't want somebody who writes like me [in my writing staff]. Because I can write like me. I know what I'm capable of and what my limitations are. If you're going to build an orchestra, you don't want all tubas - you want a violin and you want a cello and you want a drum set.
Tom Fontana
#60. There are many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking the care and feeding of something. It could be children, or it could be house plants, you know? By doing that you come to understand your own limitations. That's where it starts.
Banana Yoshimoto
#61. That was the strength of Ellysetta's weave. Bright, unyielding,indefatigable love. Love that did not know surrender. Love that did not understand limitations or even basic self-preservation. Love that would batter itself to death before giving in to defeat.
C.L. Wilson
#62. When you know yourself - your strengths, joys, limitations, and fears - you can live in truth and transparency in all areas of your life.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#63. My family's dreams about a future unfettered by the limitations imposed by "who you know" and dependent only on "what you know" was possible only in this beautiful land. Their
Mindy Kaling
#64. How can we know something that surpasses or is beyond knowledge? How can we know something that is beyond words?... We can and do use words to point to all of our human experiences. However, the experience of "God as Agape" is beyond words, beyond the limitations of our minds.
John David Geib
#65. People put limitations on their creativity, believing they have to rely on what they know and what they have done.
Bertrand Piccard
#66. I know my limitations. I know I'm not perfect. I know what I know, but more importantly, I know what I don't know. When I don't know something, I surround myself with people I can trust to teach me.
Brock Lesnar
#67. The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win, and their participants know it.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#68. Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
H.P. Lovecraft
#69. Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.
Julie Taymor
#70. The mystical kundalini energy has some, I don't know if you'd call them limitations, but there are certain operational factors which you should understand about it.
Frederick Lenz
