Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

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

- Caine, Mark

Best Quotes about Possibilities

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

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.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours

Bach, Richard

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

Grimes, Martha

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

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

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Brown, Les

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

Rudolph, Wilma

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Sontag, Susan

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Look at things... as they can be.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Ford, Henry

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Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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You can have it all. You just can't have it all at one time.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Sophocles

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The awakening has begun!

Dempsey, William

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

Spielberg, Steven

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

Suzuki, Shunryu

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

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

Lerner, Max

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I dwell in Possibility.

Dickinson, Emily

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There is no such thing as no chance.

Ford, Henry

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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.