Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

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.

Best Quotes about Possibilities

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

There is no such thing as no chance.

Ford, Henry

The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Grimes, Martha

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

Mccay, James T.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Sophocles

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

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

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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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 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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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 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 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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Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 dwell in Possibility.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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 awakening has begun!

Dempsey, William

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Look at things... as they can be.

Schwartz, David J.

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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 how good you get, there's always something further out there.

Walton, Bill

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

Spielberg, Steven

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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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Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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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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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 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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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