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

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

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Lerner, Max

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Sontag, Susan

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

11.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

12.

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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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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There is no such thing as no chance.

Ford, Henry

15.

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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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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Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours

Bach, Richard

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

Grimes, Martha

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

20.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.

Suzuki, Shunryu

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Ford, Henry

25.

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

Spielberg, Steven

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

34.

The awakening has begun!

Dempsey, William

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

Sophocles

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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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It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.

Borghese, G. A.

44.

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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I dwell in Possibility.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

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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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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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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