Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Possibilities

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

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

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

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

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

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

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

Spielberg, Steven

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

Leonard, George

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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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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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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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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

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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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Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Allen, Woody

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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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The awakening has begun!

Dempsey, William

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

Hurston, Zora Neale

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

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

Suzuki, Shunryu

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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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Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Brown, Les

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

Sophocles

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Walton, Bill

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Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours

Bach, Richard

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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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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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Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Schuller, Robert 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 only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.

Brown, Les

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

Pilgrim, Peace