Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

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

Best Quotes about Possibilities

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

Spielberg, Steven

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

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Sophocles

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.

Borghese, G. A.

Look at things... as they can be.

Schwartz, David J.

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

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

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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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As you begin to understand the immense power and love you hold inside, you will find an unending surge of joy, light and love that will nourish and support you all the days of your life.

Jeffers, Susan

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

Mccay, James T.

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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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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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I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.

Rudolph, Wilma

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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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The awakening has begun!

Dempsey, William

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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There is no such thing as no chance.

Ford, Henry

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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I dwell in Possibility.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Prince

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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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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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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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