Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

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

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Possibilities

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

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

If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

DeVos, Richard M.

It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.

Borghese, G. A.

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

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

Hurston, Zora Neale

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Allen, Woody

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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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There is no such thing as no chance.

Ford, Henry

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

Sophocles

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Prince

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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I dwell in Possibility.

Dickinson, Emily

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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

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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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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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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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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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Look at things... as they can be.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

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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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Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Brown, Les

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The awakening has begun!

Dempsey, William

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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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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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It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.

Robbins, Anthony