Best Limitations Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Growth isn’t found in comfort—it’s born in courage. The familiar may feel safe, but it rarely asks more of you. Staying where it’s easy keeps your potential out of reach.”

“For I am bound with fleshly bands,”

“Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!”

“There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.”

“You can have faith in God or gods. You can have faith in people. But these aren't separate choices—when humans claim to speak for the divine, they inevitably speak from their own understanding, their own limitations, and their own agenda.”

“There's somethin I learned when I was homeless: Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over. I remember one time I was hunkered down in the hobo jungle with some folks. We was talkin 'bout life, and this fella was talkin, said, 'People think they're in control, but they ain't. The truth is, that which must befall thee must befall thee. And that which must pass the by must pass thee by.”

“How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.”