Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

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

Best Quotes about Possibilities

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

Albran, Kehlog

Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours

Bach, Richard

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

Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

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

Song From The California Special Olympics

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

Ford, Henry

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

10.

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

11.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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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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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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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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

17.

The awakening has begun!

Dempsey, William

18.

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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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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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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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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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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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

25.

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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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

28.

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

29.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Spielberg, Steven

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

Walton, Bill

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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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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Emerson, 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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Look at things... as they can be.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Sophocles

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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 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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This became a credo of mine: attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Davis, Bette