Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Possibilities

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

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

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

Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

I dwell in Possibility.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.

Borghese, G. A.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Davis, Bette

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Lerner, Max

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

Sophocles

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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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We must learn our limits. We are all something but none of us are everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Grimes, Martha

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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Look at things... as they can be.

Schwartz, David J.

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

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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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Start viewing the possible as probable. You'll be surprised at what you can accomplish.

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

Ford, Henry

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There is no such thing as no chance.

Ford, Henry

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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

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Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Brown, Les

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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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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 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