Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

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

- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Best Quotes about Possibilities

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Sontag, Susan

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

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

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

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

Lerner, Max

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There is no such thing as no chance.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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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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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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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

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I dwell in Possibility.

Dickinson, Emily

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How far is far, how high is high? We'll never know until we try.

Song From The California Special Olympics

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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

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

Walton, Bill

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Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.

James, William

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

Rudolph, Wilma

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Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Brown, Les

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

Spielberg, Steven

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Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.

Dyer, Wayne

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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hurston, Zora Neale

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

Prince

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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Your range of available choices -- right now -- is limitless.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. there are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind.

Kingsley, Darwin P.

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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