Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

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

- Morgan, John Pierpont

Best Quotes about Possibilities

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Brown, Les

Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours

Bach, Richard

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

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

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

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

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

Lerner, Max

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Leonard, George

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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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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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 awakening has begun!

Dempsey, William

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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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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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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 possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Walton, Bill

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I dwell in Possibility.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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Look at things... as they can be.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Sophocles

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Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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There is no such thing as no chance.

Ford, Henry

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

Grimes, Martha

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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