Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

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

Best Quotes about Possibilities

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Hurston, Zora Neale

There is no such thing as no chance.

Ford, Henry

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 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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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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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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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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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

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

Leonard, George

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

Spielberg, Steven

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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 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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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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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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Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours

Bach, Richard

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

Davis, Bette

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

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Walton, Bill

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Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Allen, Woody

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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 am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

Lerner, Max

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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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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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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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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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It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.

Borghese, G. A.