Horace Walpole Quotes

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine if you've given it your whole heart and soul.

My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent his life pushing wheel barrels of heavy wet cement. So we've gone from pushing cement to now in one generation pushing legislation. But we always want any president to succeed, to do well; that means America does well and Americans do well.

It seems like the opportunity just increases exponentially. There doesn't seem to be much stopping.

The greatest gift I've been given is being naive, because I don't know what I can't do. And when you don't know what you can't do, you think you can do everything.

Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.

Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.

I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

I believe that if we get out of people's way, the sky's the limit. The sky is the limit.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to me to say that I couldn't do anything.

[In America] No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do.

We don't put limits on ourselves.

I never put a ceiling on myself, I never put a ceiling on my teammates or my team.

We never put any limitations on what Gateway could be. We had big dreams, big goals.

Don't put yourself in a box. Become anything that you want to be.

I never really set any time goals. I think that puts a limit on yourself.

I feel like potential is limitless. It's as far as you want to take it.

Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.

It is necessary, then, to give the child the possibility of developing according to the laws of his nature, so that he can become strong, and, having become strong, can do even more than we dared hope for him.

The liberty, prosperity, and the happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme Author of All Good.

It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare.