Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

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

Best Quotes about Possibilities

No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.

Walton, Bill

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

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

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Brown, Les

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is to good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

Hotchner, A.E.

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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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Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Two people can do anything as long as one of them is the Lord.

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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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Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

Schwab, Charles M.

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The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

Sontag, Susan

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Look at things... as they can be.

Schwartz, David J.

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The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.

Brown, Les

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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'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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The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.

Leonard, George

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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 am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

Lerner, Max

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

Albran, Kehlog

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Sophocles

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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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There is no such thing as no chance.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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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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Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours

Bach, Richard

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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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Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Grimes, Martha

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When the impossibility has been eliminated, whatever remains, no matter how improbable... is possible.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.

Brown, Les

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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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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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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give thee, the more I have, For both are infinite

Shakespeare, William

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I dwell in Possibility.

Dickinson, Emily

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The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.

Hill, Napoleon

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The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

Eiseley, Loren

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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