Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

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.

Best Quotes about Possibilities

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.

Borghese, G. A.

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.

Mccay, James T.

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

10.

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

Suzuki, Shunryu

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Look at things... as they can be.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Spielberg, Steven

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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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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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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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 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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Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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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Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Brown, Les

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

Hurston, Zora Neale

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

Lerner, Max

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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

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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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Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours

Bach, Richard

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

Davis, Bette