Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Possibilities

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.

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

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

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

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

Almanac, Mary S.

The awakening has begun!

Dempsey, William

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.

Rudolph, Wilma

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

Hurston, Zora Neale

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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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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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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

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

Sophocles

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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There is no such thing as no chance.

Ford, Henry

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

Prince

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Leonard, George

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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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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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It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.

Borghese, G. A.

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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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Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.