Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

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.

Best Quotes about Possibilities

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

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

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

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours

Bach, Richard

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Brown, Les

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

Allen, Woody

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

Leonard, George

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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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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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Look at things... as they can be.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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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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Schwab, Charles M.

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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

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

Sophocles

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

Spielberg, Steven

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

Rudolph, Wilma

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

Walton, Bill

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

Brown, Les

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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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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

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

Grimes, Martha

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

Lerner, Max

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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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It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.

Borghese, G. A.

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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The awakening has begun!

Dempsey, William

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

Ford, Henry

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)