Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

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

Best Quotes about Possibilities

Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours

Bach, Richard

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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.

There is no such thing as no chance.

Ford, Henry

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

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

Rudolph, Wilma

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

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

Sontag, Susan

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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

Grimes, Martha

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

Prince

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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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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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Look at things... as they can be.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Hurston, Zora Neale

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

Sophocles

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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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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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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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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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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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Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Palmer, Arnold

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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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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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