Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

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

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Possibilities

No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.

Mccay, James T.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Davis, Bette

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours

Bach, Richard

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It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.

Borghese, G. A.

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

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Ford, Henry

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

Leonard, George

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

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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Grimes, Martha

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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

Walton, Sam

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

Suzuki, Shunryu

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Look at things... as they can be.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Brown, Les

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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 am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

Lerner, Max

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