Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

MAN’S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION.

We all know those who draw their boundaries carefully and say, "I'm only human. Nobody's perfect. I accept my limitations." And we know others who take an opposite view and say, "I can do anything I choose to do. It is in my power to change the world." And those are the ones who most often change the world.

If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.

We are all born naked into this world, but each of us is fully clothed in potential.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

We are all capable of so much more than the narrow confines of our regular behavior and our personality. So it's interesting to play different notes on your keyboard.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible, feel, as they stand on the edge of the grave, that they are but human acorns with all their possibilities still in them, just beginning to sprout.

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing, I see everincreasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it all. Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend them, swim in expectation.

Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.

Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.

The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.

Don't get stuck on small. Don't stop dreaming, reaching and enhancing what you have.

[H]uman beings...make a limit in their mind of what their potential is. They decide, "I've been told this," or "this is what society tells me," or they've been made to believe something. If every human being actually threw away those thoughts...the potential of human beings is great, it's huge, compared to what they actually think of themselves.

In a world of unlimited possibilities, there is always the possibility that there are no possibilities.

If you accept limitations then, yeah, you'll be limited. If you don't accept limitations then the horizon is pretty vast.

Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.

Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation.

Life is filled with potential that is truly unfathomable. At last we are coming to see the enormous power it possesses. That is why we must never write anyone off. In particular, we mustn’t put boundaries on our own potential. In most cases, our so-called limitations are nothing more than our own decision to limit ourselves.

All humans can do more than they think they can do. So I think we can all actually be more superhuman than we think we can.

It seems that every life form on this planet strives toward its maximum potential... except human beings. A tree does not grow to half its potential size and then say, "l guess that will do." A tree will drive its roots as deep as possible. It will soak up as much nourishment as it can, stretch as high and as wide as nature will allow, and then look down as if to remind us of how much each of us could become if we would only do all that we can.

In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given line by which he may chart his course, only one limit: the past.

Man is the dwarf of himself.

Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.

Believe that there are no limitations, no barriers to your success --- you will be empowered and you will achieve.