Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

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

Best Quotes about Possibilities

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

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

Allen, Woody

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

The awakening has begun!

Dempsey, William

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

Pascal, Blaise

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

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

Prince

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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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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 is no such thing as no chance.

Ford, Henry

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

Sophocles

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Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Brown, Les

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

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

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

Lerner, Max

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Walton, Bill

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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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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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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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Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Suzuki, Shunryu

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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 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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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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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Davis, Bette

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Look at things... as they can be.