Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

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

- Spielberg, Steven

Best Quotes about Possibilities

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.

Borghese, G. A.

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

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

Sophocles

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

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

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

Almanac, Mary S.

10.

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.

11.

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

Prince

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

Suzuki, Shunryu

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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There are no such things as incurable s. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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 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

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Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Spielberg, Steven

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Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours

Bach, Richard

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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