Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Possibilities

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

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

The awakening has begun!

Dempsey, William

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

Sophocles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Look at things... as they can be.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Walton, Sam

10.

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

Walton, Bill

11.

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

Lerner, Max

12.

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our stature's touch the skies.

Dickinson, Emily

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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

18.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

19.

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

Rudolph, Wilma

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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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It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours

Bach, Richard

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

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

Suzuki, Shunryu

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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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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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If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

DeVos, Richard M.

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Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Brown, Les

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Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Cervantes, Miguel 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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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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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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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

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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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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

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Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life.

Sweetland, Ben

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Sontag, Susan

49.

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

Prince

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

Spielberg, Steven