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

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

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

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

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

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

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

Carnegie, Dale

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.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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How far is far, how high is high? We'll never know until we try.

Song From The California Special Olympics

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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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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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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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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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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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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 possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.

Hill, Napoleon

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I dwell in Possibility.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours

Bach, Richard

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Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Brown, Les

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

Walton, Bill

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Look at things... as they can be.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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.

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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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The awakening has begun!

Dempsey, William

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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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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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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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Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

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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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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Spielberg, Steven