Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Possibilities

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

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

Sophocles

Look at things... as they can be.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Leonard, George

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

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

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

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

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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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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There is no such thing as no chance.

Ford, Henry

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Allen, Woody

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Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Prince

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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 how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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

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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

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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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Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours

Bach, Richard

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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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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

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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 must learn our limits. We are all something but none of us are everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.

Borghese, G. A.