"The only thing that limits us is our imagination."
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"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."
"O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible."
"Either push your limits or die."
"Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits."
"The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable."
"Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise."
"The only limits of power are the bounds of belief."
"Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits."
"One who fears failure limits his activities."
"Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities."
"Go for the impossible. I always tried to find my own limits. So far I did not find them, so my universe is in constant expansion."
"Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life"
"The will of the capitalist is certainly to take as much as possible. What we have to do is not to talk about his will, but to enquire about his power, the limits of that power, and the character of those limits."
"The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind."
"Always remember that as long as other people are gullible, there's no limit to what you can achieve."
"True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge."
"To define yourself is to limit yourself. Without labels you remain the infinite being."
"To define is to limit, to set boundaries, to compare and to contrast, and for this reason, the universe, the all, seems to defy definition....Just as no one in his senses would look for the morning news in a dictionary, no one should use speaking and thinking to find out what cannot be spoken or thought."
"It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit."