Motivational Quotes

Possibilities

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

- Walton, Sam

Best Quotes about 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

The awakening has begun!

Dempsey, William

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

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

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

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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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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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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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This became a credo of mine: attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Davis, Bette

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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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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It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.

Borghese, G. A.

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

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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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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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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Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Brown, Les

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Lerner, Max

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

Leonard, George

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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

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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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I dwell in Possibility.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Suzuki, Shunryu

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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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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

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

Hurston, Zora Neale