Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

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

- Leonard, George

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

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

Prince

If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

DeVos, Richard M.

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

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

Spielberg, Steven

Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

There is no such thing as no chance.

Ford, Henry

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

Walton, Bill

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

Davis, Bette

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

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It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.

Borghese, G. A.

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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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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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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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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

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

Lerner, Max

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Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours

Bach, Richard

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sontag, Susan

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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 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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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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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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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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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Grimes, Martha

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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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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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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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Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Leonard, George

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

Dyer, Wayne

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