Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Possibilities

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Rudolph, Wilma

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

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

Walton, Sam

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Sontag, Susan

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

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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The riches of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It's cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Davis, Bette

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.

Brown, Les

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

Albran, Kehlog

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

Ford, Henry

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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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Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

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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.

34.

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

Leonard, George

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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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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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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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The awakening has begun!

Dempsey, William

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

Sophocles

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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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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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 dwell in Possibility.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Grimes, Martha

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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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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