Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

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

Best Quotes about Possibilities

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

Marden, Orison Swett

There are no such things as incurable s. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.

Baruch, Bernard M.

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

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

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.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Suzuki, Shunryu

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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 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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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

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

Hurston, Zora Neale

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Russell, Bertrand

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

Lerner, Max

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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I dwell in Possibility.

Dickinson, Emily

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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Spielberg, Steven

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

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

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

Leonard, George

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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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There is no such thing as no chance.

Ford, Henry

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

Davis, Bette

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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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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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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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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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Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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

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It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.

Borghese, G. A.

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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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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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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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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

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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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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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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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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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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