Limit Setting Quotes

When we begin to set boundaries with people we love, a really hard thing happens: they hurt. They may feel a hole where you used to plug up their aloneness, their disorganization, or their financial irresponsibility. Whatever it is, they will feel a loss. If you love them, this will be difficult for you to watch. But, when you are dealing with someone who is hurting, remember that your boundaries are both necessary for you and helpful for them. If you have been enabling them to be irresponsible, your limit setting may nudge them toward responsibility.

Sometimes you have to say, 'I don't have to do everything that comes my way.'

Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge.

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.

There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'

One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits.

The power of saying no is so much more than the power of saying yes.

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.

My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.

I have to remind myself not to set boundaries.

Learn how to say no. Don't let your mouth overload your back.

I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say 'no.' The power of slow is the power of no. I can't go to every party I get invited to. I can't do every work thing.

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.

In fact, corporations are the infants of our society - they know very little except how to grow (though they're very good at that), and they howl when you set limits. Socializing them is the work of politics. It's about time we took it up again.

I'm learning how to keep my identity and personal life sacred. It's a matter of knowing my limits. I don't have to give everything that's asked of me.

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit

The fight will last as long as I allow it to last.

When it comes to turning the other cheek, I draw the line at bosses.

We need to start saying no to stuff.

We set ourselves a limit and cut characters which weren't so vital.

The only power you have is the word no.

Advertising just keeps getting heavier and heavier and heavier. It doesn't have any natural limit, and we haven't found the place for the limit. And I think it's really important, therefore, that some of the revolts that are undergoing right now, you know, whether it's ad blockers or other things, are people trying to set some lines so that we say, you know, this far but no further. And this is where it ends.

Enough is enough. Our intention is to have a line where the pavement ends and the open space and the hills begin.