Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

- Hurston, Zora Neale

Best Quotes about Possibilities

It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.

Borghese, G. A.

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

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Ford, Henry

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

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

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Lerner, Max

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

Sophocles

11.

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

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours

Bach, Richard

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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

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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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Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Leonard, George

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Suzuki, Shunryu

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Spielberg, Steven

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Prince

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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