Possibility Quotes

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  I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Why the Internet Is Full of Feminist Quotes Falsely Attributed to Gloria Steinem" by Ruth Graham, www.slate.com. October 05, 2017.

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• Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Creativity, Ignorance

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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• We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Opportunity, Realizing

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

  Les Brown

  Life, Motivational, Opportunity

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• Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Positive, Strength, Inspiring

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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• When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Karma, Running

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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.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “A Bridge for Passing”, p.131, Open Road Media

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• I dwell in possibility.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Recovery, Addiction

  "I dwell in possibility" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

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• 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

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Choices

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Aug 03, 2011

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• Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Science, Fiction

  Following the Equator ch. 15, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897) See Byron 33; Chesterton 6

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• nothing is impossible

  Walt Disney

  Happiness, Inspiring, Moving On

  Walt Disney (1988). “The jungle book”, p.17, Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.

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• I love those who yearn for the impossible.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Philosophy, Life Is Good

  "Faust, Part 2". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act II, "Classical Walpurgis Night", 1832.

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• To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Creativity, Science

  Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Leadership, Action, Decision Making

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• Passion + Persistence = Possibility

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Passion, Persistence

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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  I don't need easy, I just need possible.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Positivity

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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.

  Dale Carnegie

  Dream, Mindset, Knows

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• All our acts have sacramental possibilities.

  Freya Stark

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.124, I.B.Tauris

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• Growth follows knowledge;
  action follows inspiration;
  opportunity follows perception;
  always the spiritual first, then the transformation into the infinite
  and illimitable possibilities of achievement.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Opportunity

  Charles F. Haanel (2016). “The Master Key System”, p.51, Charles F. Haanel

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• Einstein does not remain attached to the classical principles, and when presented with a problem in physics he quickly envisages all of its possibilities. This leads immediately in his mind to the prediction of new phenomena which may one day be verified by experiment.

  Henri Poincare

  Mind, One Day, Principles

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• If not you, who? If not now, when?

  Hillel the Elder

  Motivational, New Beginnings, Responsibility

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