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

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

Walton, Bill

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

Leonard, George

I dwell in Possibility.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Marden, Orison Swett

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give thee, the more I have, For both are infinite

Shakespeare, William

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Ford, Henry

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Sophocles

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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There is no such thing as no chance.

Ford, Henry

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

Rudolph, Wilma

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

Spielberg, Steven

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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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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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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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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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

Lerner, Max

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

Grimes, Martha

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You can have it all. You just can't have it all at one time.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Davis, Bette

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

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan