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Limitation Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “Lack and limitation can only exist when we make room for them in our mind.”

Bob Proctor

Abundance, Mindset, Limitation, Self-belief, Personal Growth

2. “You got a lifetime. No more. No less.”

Neil Gaiman

Life, Mortality, Perspective, Limitation, Brevity

3. “You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Imagination, Creativity, Limitation, Human Nature, Self-awareness

4. “This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.”

John Milton

Writing, Self-awareness, Limitation, Ability, Humility

5. “You can't photograph everything.”

Allen Ginsberg

Limitation, Perception, Art, Philosophical Reflection, Creative Boundaries, Existential Observation

6. “It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances.”

Edgar Allan Poe

Creativity, Limitation, Artistic Expression, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Depth, Performance Art

7. “The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.”

William Blake

Art, Divinity, Limitation, Philosophical Insight, Spiritual Gift, Creative Boundary

8. “God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!”

William Blake

Truth, Mathematics, Limitation, Philosophical Exclamation, Spiritual Insight, Epistemological Critique

9. “Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.”

William Blake

Desire, Perception, Limitation, Philosophical Insight, Human Nature, Cognitive Boundary

10. “VI. If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing, despair must be his eternal lot.”

William Blake

Desire, Limitation, Despair, Philosophical Observation, Human Nature, Existential Insight

11. “The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.”

William Blake

Abundance, Limitation, Contrast, Metaphorical Insight, Philosophical Statement, Spiritual Wisdom

12. “Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.”

Aldous Huxley

Music, Repertoire, Limitation, Artistic Expression, Metaphor, Cultural Critique

13. “One can pass on knowledge but not wisdom. One can find wisdom, one can live it, one can be supported by it, one can work wonders with it, but one cannot speak it or teach it.”

Hermann Hesse

Knowledge, Wisdom, Experience, Understanding, Discovery, Limitation

14. “Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.”

E.M. Forster

Cycles, Endless Pursuit, Metaphysical Thought, Inner Journey, Existentialism, Limitation

15. “As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can’t put toothbrushes in a poem. I really can’t.”

Sylvia Plath

Creativity, Limitation, Boundaries, Expression, Absurdity, Discipline

16. “When you’ve been used to doing things, and they’ve been taken away from you, it’s as if your hands had been cut off, and you felt the fingers as are of no use to you.”

George Eliot

Lost Actions, Hand’s Limitation, Removed Comforts, Actions, Limitation, Comforts

17. “When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.”

George Eliot

Wishing Great, Limitation Exclusion, Turns Limitation, Wishing, Limitation, Exclusion

18. “Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.”

Albert Camus

Nature Reflection, Universe Thought, Existential Perspective, Nature, Universe, Limitation

19. “We cannot wish for that we know not.”

Voltaire

Wish Knowledge, Desire, Limitation, Understanding

20. “No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.”

George Bernard Shaw

Specialist Idiot, Knowledge Limitation, Specialist, Idiot, Limitation, Knowledge

21. “There is infinite hope, but not for man.”

Franz Kafka

Existential Hope, Human Limitation, Philosophical Struggle, Hope, Human, Limitation

22. “The limited circle is pure.”

Franz Kafka

Purity, Limitation, Focus, Simplicity, Self-Containment, Clarity

23. “His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world.”

Rainer Maria Rilke

Perception, Limitation, Freedom, Vision, Isolation, Frustration

24. “Yes, a man in the nineteenth century must and morally ought to be pre-eminently a characterless creature; a man of character, an active man is pre-eminently a limited creature.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Character Limitation, Nineteenth Century, Character, Limitation, Active, Century

25. “And do you know, Sonia, that low ceilings and tiny rooms cramp the soul and the mind?”

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Space Limitation, Mental Confinement, Space, Limitation, Mind, Confinement

26. “The mind that perceives the limitation is the limitation.”

Buddha

Mind, Limitation, Perception, Reality, Self, Awareness

27. “When people start limiting the amount of success they desire, I assure you they will limit what will be required of them in order to achieve success and will fail miserably at doing what it takes to keep it.”

Grant Cardone

Success, Limitation, Desire, Achievement, Growth