How Far You Can Go Quotes:

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

- T. S. Eliot

source: T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Fear None, Courage To Change

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

source: FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Way In Life, Make Me Feel Better

Take pride in how far you've come. Have faith in how far you can go. But don't forget to enjoy the journey.

- Michael Josephson

topic: Motivational, Graduation, Pride, How Far You've Come, Enjoy The Journey

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

- Rick Warren

topic: Positive, Want, Remember, Long Relationship, Inspirational Long Distance

This is not about going back. This is about life being ahead of you and you run at it! Because you never know how far you can run unless you run.

- Penny Chenery

topic: Running, How Far You Can Go

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

- George Washington Carver

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Life Philosophy, Kind People

How much weight you can carry in your mind will determine how far you can go in life!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Life, Mind, Weight, How Far You Can Go

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: War, Trying, Defense, How Far You Can Go

Find a beautiful place inside the nature and refresh yourself over there; how well you repose will mostly determine how far you can go in this universe!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Beautiful, Nature, Wells, Beautiful Places, How Far You Can Go

Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

- Malin Akerman

topic: Lines, Way, Just Being, How Far You Can Go

I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity.

- Lusia Strus

topic: Balance, Actors, Levels, How Far You Can Go

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

- Jean Cocteau

topic: Knowing, Audacity, Courtesy, How Far You Can Go

I think the press, by and large, is what we call "liberal". But of course what we call "liberal" means well to the right. "Liberal" means the "guardians of the gates". So the New York Times is "liberal" by, what's called, the standards of political discourse, New York Times is liberal, CBS is liberal. I don't disagree. I think they're moderately critical at the fringes. They're not totally subordinate to power, but they are very strict in how far you can go. And in fact, their liberalism serves an extremely important function in supporting power.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

topic: New York, Mean, Thinking, Political Discourse, How Far You Can Go

When I was hacking, it was more pushing the status quo and seeing how far you can go.

- Michael Demon Calce

topic: Hacking, Pushing, Status Quo, How Far You Can Go

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

- Robert Morgan

topic: Philosophical, Language, Preoccupation, Linguistics, How Far You Can Go

There's a set of unspoken rules we live by when it comes to fighting. We can't help it. It comes from living in a civilized world. Even when you're fighting your hardest, somewhere deep down, you know how far you can go. But today the rules are gone. Today I fight not to win, but to destroy.

- Neal Shusterman

topic: Life, Fighting, Winning, Unspoken, Unspoken Rules

That’s how you tell what a man’s really made of. It’s one thing for a man to be big and brave and kill a spider. Any man could do that. Trailin’ after a woman when she’s shopping for thongs and push-up bras is a whole other category of man. And then if you want to see how far you can go with it, you ask him to carry one of those little pink bags they give you.

- Janet Evanovich

source: Janet Evanovich (2008). “To the Nines”, p.136, Macmillan

topic: Men, Shopping, Giving, Thongs, How Far You Can Go