Quotes About Setting Limits

#1. No matter how much you talk to yourself, read, study, or practice, you can't develop or set boundaries apart from supportive relationships with God and others. Don't even try to start setting limits until you have entered into deep, abiding attachments with people who will love you no matter what.

Henry Cloud

#2. Nothing is ever truly achieved by setting limits.

Sheila Renee Parker

#3. There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.

Dalai Lama

#4. People with boundary problems usually have distorted attitudes about responsibility. They feel that to hold people responsible for their feelings, choices, and behaviors is mean. However, Proverbs repeatedly says that setting limits and accepting responsibility will save lives (Prov. 13:18, 24).

Henry Cloud

#5. Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior.

Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

#6. To help staff recharge and think better, companies are setting aside quiet places to relax, practise yoga or even take a nap. With hi-tech giants such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft underlining the pitfalls of being 'always on,' firms are imposing speed limits on the information superhighway.

Carl Honore

#7. Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

Charlotte Kasl

#8. Ana, there's a package for you. Kate is standing on the steps up to the front door holding a brown paper parcel. Odd. I haven't ordered anything from Amazon recently.

E.L. James

#9. If you live for people's acceptance you will die from their rejection

LeCrae

#10. My thinking is, if we're setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game.

Nick Kroll

#11. Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.

Gottfried Leibniz

#12. Never set limits when you are loving someone.

Debasish Mridha

#13. In a war a totalitarian state has a free hand.

Paul Feyerabend

#14. England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. Mind is the foundation of man.

Baal Shem Tov

#16. The Doctor ... told the old ever-new and curious story of the waning of a woman's love, seeking strange, new channels, only to return to its legitimate source after days of fierce unrest.

Kate Chopin

#17. We are love. But in an everyday setting we have to make choices. We have limits. We can love everyone and we can't love everyone.

Mark Nepo

#18. Startled, he blinked at her. King and queen? But he couldn't - she wasn't - well, she wasn't Sunny. And he'd been in love with one dragon his whole life.

Tui T. Sutherland

#19. Setting boundaries is a way of caring for myself. It doesn't make me mean, selfish, or uncaring because I don't do things your way. I care about me too.

Christine Morgan

#20. In any case, in Vermont $500 is a lot of money for dinner. I hope these rich folks enjoyed themselves.

Bernie Sanders

#21. If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me.

Madonna Ciccone