Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

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

Best Quotes about Possibilities

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

Look at things... as they can be.

Schwartz, David J.

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

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

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Spielberg, Steven

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.

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hurston, Zora Neale

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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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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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Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours

Bach, Richard

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

Allen, Woody

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

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

Prince

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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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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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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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Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Brown, Les

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There is no such thing as no chance.

Ford, Henry

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Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Lerner, Max

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

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

Rudolph, Wilma

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

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Leonard, George