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

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

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

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

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

Mccay, James T.

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

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

Davis, Bette

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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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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Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Brown, Les

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Sophocles

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Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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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There is no such thing as no chance.

Ford, Henry

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It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.

Borghese, G. A.

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

Allen, Woody

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Hotchner, A.E.

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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Look at things... as they can be.

Schwartz, David J.

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The awakening has begun!

Dempsey, William

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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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Your body is an amazing creation, capable of performing great wonders, but you can destroy that miraculous machine's potential with an overdose of stress.

Johnson, Harry J.

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Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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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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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