Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

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

Best Quotes about Possibilities

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.

Albran, Kehlog

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

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

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Leonard, George

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

Walton, Bill

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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There is no such thing as no chance.

Ford, Henry

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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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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

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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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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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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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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

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Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Brown, Les

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

Lerner, Max

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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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As you begin to understand the immense power and love you hold inside, you will find an unending surge of joy, light and love that will nourish and support you all the days of your life.

Jeffers, Susan

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

Grimes, Martha

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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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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Nyad, Diana

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

Allen, Woody

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

Prince

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

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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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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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Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours