Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

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

Best Quotes about Possibilities

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

Grimes, Martha

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

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

Leonard, George

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

Walton, Sam

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

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.

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.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

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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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Lombardi, Vince

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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Look at things... as they can be.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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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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

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

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

Sophocles

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

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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'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

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Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours

Bach, Richard

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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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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 is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.

Albran, Kehlog

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

Walton, Bill

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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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Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.

Brown, Les

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