Accepting Limitations Quotes

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

It's impossible to satisfy everyone, and I suggest we all stop trying.

If you can't solve it, it's not a problem - it's reality.

I ain't as good as I once was, But I'm as good once as I ever was.

It’s [old age] not a surprise, we knew it was coming – make the most of it. So you may not be as fast on your feet, and the image in your mirror may be a little disappointing, but if you are still functioning and not in pain, gratitude should be the name of the game.

I'm not going to sit here and say I know everything about everything. I definitely have work to do. The thing is, I'm willing to admit that.

Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes.

Humility is the first step towards learning. You can’t learn until you are humble enough to realize there is something for you to learn.

It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.

One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.

Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.

God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not Number One; He is.

Unfortunately, they develop a fixed mindset that they're the most talented, and they think that continued success is a right. Problems arise because pure talent only works as long as the going is easy. Furthermore, they don't take risks because failure would harm their image of being the best, brightest, and most talented. When they do fail, they deny it or attribute it to anything but their shortcomings.

We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having; and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life

I can only control what I can control. I can't control plays called for me.

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?

I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything.

There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.

Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.

A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped.

O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

We can't have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it.

But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.