Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

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

- Sontag, Susan

Best Quotes about Possibilities

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.

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

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Look at things... as they can be.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

Allen, Woody

10.

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.

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

Sontag, Susan

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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 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'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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There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionalities or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Sophocles

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

27.

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

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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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Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?

Prince

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

Grimes, Martha

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Leonard, George

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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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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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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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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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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

45.

Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours

Bach, Richard

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

Walton, Bill

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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I dwell in Possibility.

Dickinson, Emily

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It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.