Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

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.

Best Quotes about Possibilities

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

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

Grimes, Martha

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Prince

Look at things... as they can be.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Sophocles

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

Allen, Woody

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She didn't know it couldn't be done, so she went ahead and did it.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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

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

Leonard, George

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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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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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The awakening has begun!

Dempsey, William

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

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

Rudolph, Wilma

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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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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Ford, Henry

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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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It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.

Borghese, G. A.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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

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

Lerner, Max

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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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Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Cervantes, Miguel De