Possibilities Quotes
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. - Agnes Repplier
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. - Susan Sontag
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities, always see them, for they're always there. - Norman Vincent Peale
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean un-sailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good. - Brian Tracy
Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on. - Norman Vincent Peale
Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it. - Gloria Swanson
I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations. - H. G. Wells
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time is a very good one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. - St. Francis of Assisi
The Wright brother flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility. - Charles Kettering
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. - Lewis Carroll
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. - Miguel de Cervantes
The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do. - Henry Moore
It's kind of fun to do the impossible! - Walt Disney
I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities. - Whoopi Goldberg
What is now proved, was once only imagined. - William Blake
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. - Mark Twain
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. - John Andrew Holmes
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed. That is the meaning of evolution. - Graham Greene
Whether you believe you can or not, you're right. - Henry Ford
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision. - V.S. Naipaul
I don't regret a single excess of my responsive youth. I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace. - Henry James
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few. - Shunryu Suzuki
The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious. - John Sculley
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. - Abraham Maslow
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. - George Bernard Shaw
We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. - Dale Carnegie
An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to. - Laurence J. Peter
When nothing is sure, everything is possible. - Margaret Drabble
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. - Albert Einstein
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. - Max Lerner
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! - Soren Kierkegaard
All things are possible until they are proved impossible. Even the impossible may only be so, as of now. - Pearl S. Buck
Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great. - Cher
This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. - Bette Davis
You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices. - Deepak Chopra
Some people see things as they are and say 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. - John Lennon
I love those who yearn for the impossible. - Goethe
Every man is an impossibility until he is born. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you can't, you must. If you must, you can. - Tony Robbins
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. - Aristotle
If someone says can't, that shows you what to do. - John Cage
You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today. - Mark Twain
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. - Louis D. Brandeis
The possible's slow fuse is lit by the imagination. - Emily Dickinson
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. - Thomas Edison
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. - Les Brown
. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau
Everything you can imagine in real. - Picasso
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. - Martin Luther
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. - James Dean
I don't dream at night, I dream all day. I dream for a living.- Steven Spielberg
The shell must break before the bird can fly. - Alfred Tennyson
If not you, who? If not now, when? - Rabbi Hillel
