Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.

- Albran, Kehlog

Best Quotes about Possibilities

There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionalities or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

The creator is both detached and committed, free and yet ensnared, concerned but not too much so. If motivation is too strong the person is blinded; if the objective situation is too tightly structured, the person sees none of its alternative possibilities.

Macleod, Robert

It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness -- it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.

Palmer, Arnold

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.

Suzuki, Shunryu

The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.

Borghese, G. A.

Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Schuller, Robert H.

She didn't know it couldn't be done, so she went ahead and did it.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.

Bradley, Preston

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If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.

Brown, Les

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I dwell in Possibility.

Dickinson, Emily

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We don't know who we are until we see what we can do

Grimes, Martha

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If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.

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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

Walton, Sam

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I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

Spielberg, Steven

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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

Carnegie, Dale

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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

Lerner, Max

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A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

Lombardi, Vince

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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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The riches of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It's cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living beings in that enormous immensity.

Braun, Wernher Von

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Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours

Bach, Richard

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Go far -- too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain. The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look through still.

Fletcher, John

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Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.

South, Bishop Robert

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I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Ford, Henry

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Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

Pilgrim, Peace

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No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.

Mccay, James T.

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Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.

Marden, Orison Swett

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As you begin to understand the immense power and love you hold inside, you will find an unending surge of joy, light and love that will nourish and support you all the days of your life.

Jeffers, Susan

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There are no such things as incurable s. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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For years, people have looked at Beamon's record as unattainable. I don't accept that. I believe the Lord has given me a talent. I know the record is inside me and I will attain it.

Lewis, Carl

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You can have it all. You just can't have it all at one time.

Winfrey, Oprah

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We ain't gonna go bouncing off the walls for the next ten minutes, because when its over we'll still have the same problems. We've gotta find a way to work this out and stay alive.

Movie, Apollo 13

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The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.

Caine, Mark

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Look and you will find it -- what is unsought will go undetected.

Sophocles

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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

Lasch, Christopher

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I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.

Rudolph, Wilma

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I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often-painful process.

Nyad, Diana

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The awakening has begun!

Dempsey, William

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Your body is an amazing creation, capable of performing great wonders, but you can destroy that miraculous machine's potential with an overdose of stress.

Johnson, Harry J.

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Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

Russell, Bertrand

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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It shows exactly what you can do if you're a total psychotic.

Allen, Woody

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Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?

Prince

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This became a credo of mine: attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.