Top 100 Quotes About Possibilities
#1. Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.
Mitt Romney
#2. When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in the deliberate lies and imagined possibilities, the magic and fantasy, and all the other unreal elements that go into the concoction of identity.
Joanna Scott
#3. About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
Kurt Vonnegut
#4. Tomorrow will always hold curiosities but it is the enchantment of today's possibilities which has me true to the present.
Truth Devour
#5. As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.
Robert Hayden
#6. The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead
big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.
Bruce Lee
#7. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
Allan Bloom
#8. A good rule of thumb is 'Biology enables, culture forbids.' Biology is willing to tolerate a very wide spectrum of possibilities. It's culture that obliges people to realise some possibilities while forbidding others.
Yuval Noah Harari
#9. You are about to enter the realms of human beings. Be prepared for cruelty and kindness, for friendship and hatred. People are made of all possibilities and conditions.
Stuart Hill
#10. Everybody's possibilities solidify round them and become limitations.
A.S. Byatt
#11. Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.
William Arthur Ward
#12. All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and contours. You feel the inspiration of its possibilities and the wonder of its mysteries.
John O'Donohue
#13. The more tuned in you are to your purpose, and the more dedicated you are to growing toward it, the better your chances of reaching your potential, expanding your possibilities, and doing something significant.
John C. Maxwell
#14. The necessary transformation of which I speak and of which my presidency will be a part is built on turning creative possibilities into live realities for all our people.
Michael D. Higgins
#15. As we reinvent our life endlessly we should open our minds to the infinite possibilities that do exist.
Steven Redhead
#16. As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.
Mao Zedong
#17. My work is always a ready-made ... cultural, political, or social, and also it could be art - to make people re-look at what we have done, its original position, to create new possibilities.
Ai Weiwei
#18. We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems
Ronald Reagan
#19. Nobody ... likes talking about enforceable international protocols and yet unless there is a real change in attitude, we have to contemplate those very unwelcome possibilities if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions, of people to die.
Rowan Williams
#20. The only path to finding out what life is about is a patient, slow attempt to make sense of the realities of the past and the possibilities of the future as they can be understood in the present.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#21. Only by showing the world the cataclysmic cost of a world divided can it appreciate the wonders of life and endless possibilities of a world united.
William Bailey
#22. The thing that kind of shakes me a bit is not so much what I'm doing - or the ways I could fuck it up - but all possibilities of it and in it. Like when his body is stretched out over me or under me and the ways of touching each other are . . . forever.
Alexis Hall
#23. Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst of the confusion.
Charles Handy
#24. It is the artist who tries to gradually accustom people to the possibilities of a better state of things.
C.A. Dawson Scott
#25. Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old habits and awaken new possibilities for balance, healing, and transformation.
David Simon
#26. If you truly believe that your dreams will come a reality the possibilities are endless
Jared Leto
#27. The stars moved slowly above her, an array of possibilities, and for the first time in a long time, she felt them mirrored in her heart.
Maggie Stiefvater
#28. Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad possibilities, and any attempt by the living to chart this final terrain of life can be only a sketch, maddeningly incomplete
Kay Redfield Jamison
#29. Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.
Robin S. Sharma
#30. I believe that music offers us possibilities for analysis, at least in my case, more profound in many ways, but at the same time that profundity is an accessible profundity that has atemporal repercussions.
Bocafloja
#31. When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government, then the concentration camp ceases to be one of the possibilities of human nature and becomes one of its likelihoods.
Wendell Berry
#32. They've all got stories, Jess thought. I need to know them. Best of all, he could know them. He could learn anything here. It felt like limitless possibilities.
Rachel Caine
#33. 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
#34. Please understand that we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
William Manchester
#35. Tearing the paper means you've stopped believing in the infinite possibilities of a square.
Tor Udall
#36. I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, "Hmmm, this has some possibilities."
Eddie Vedder
#37. I love you not for the person you are, but for your possibilities.
John Cheever
#38. There is no formula. We all must become spirited inventors. There's no single answer - not even a single starting point. Even the 'teachers' ... don't offer us the answer. They do offer us approaches, ways of thinking, possibilities we can adapt, and hope that might generate in us wholly new ideas.
Frances Moore Lappe
#39. Without hope, I wouldn't even try. Hope lifts me to consider new possibilities so I can stay the course of my desire, no matter what.
Sharon Weil
#40. A cynic always focuses on problems and not on possibilities.
Debasish Mridha
#41. I think there was always some scrawny dreamer sitting at the edge of the firelight, who had the ability to imagine dangers, to look into the future in his imagination and see possibilities, and therefore survived to pass his genes on to the next generation.
Christopher Moore
#43. No, no, no, so not getting the point of fear. Because fear wasn't about what made sense. Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.
Michael Grant
#44. Most of us make unconscious choices in the words that we use; we sleep-walk through the maze of possibilities available to us.
Tony Robbins
#45. When we're young, everything is possible; when we're old, possibilities are everything.
Mardy Grothe
#46. Options can be limits or possibilities to your progress.
Ben Tolosa
#47. The zeal of the stupid in her, Chris began turning pages as if it were the winter solstice gift catalog, earmarking pages and cooing in delight at the new possibilities.
Kim Harrison
#48. There is no reticence nor any limit to a 'Majique.' Only the unwillingness of the mind to open itself to the limitless power of possibilities that exist within the unbelievable.
Rob Shepherd
#49. When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future
Aberjhani
#50. See the colorful possibilities from our life, we are self the creator from It to make a decision or stop it.stop
Jan Jansen
#51. The strange thing, though, is that most people who write novels these days seem to be aware of only a fraction of its possibilities. Kundera goes on and on about this, and I never tire of reading him on the subject, because I agree very deeply with it.
Teju Cole
#52. Well, even if the boy lives, he'll be a cripple, grotesque. Give me a good, clean death any day.' ... 'Speaking for the grotesques, I'll have to disagree. Death is so final. Whereas life, ah life is so full of possibilities.
George R R Martin
#53. Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited.
Reinout Willem Van Bemmelen
#54. The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.
J. Oswald Sanders
#55. Your life is important. Honor it. Fight for your highest possibilities.
Nathaniel Branden
#56. Being rich is living life on your own terms - according to your possibilities, not your limitations.
Paul McKenna
#57. The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another.
Jasper Johns
#58. A horse will never tire of a rider who possesses both tact and sensitivity because he will never be pushed beyond his possibilities.
Nuno Oliveira
#59. We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#60. 'Minecraft' opens up a world of limitless possibilities, driven by the player and created by the fans who love it.
Rob Manuel
#61. The more confidence you have that you can actually manifest things before you have all the knowledge and resources you might need, the more you can potentially overwhelm yourself with your own possibilities.
David Allen
#62. If you are striving to be equal to your destiny and worthy of the possibilities that sleep in the clay of your heart, then you should be regularly reaching new horizons.
John O'Donohue
#63. To step into tomorrow's possibilities you must let go of yesterday's realities. Be careful of your choices between what was, is and will be. It is very hard to fully step into your destiny while you are still holding on to your history.
Christine Caine
#64. For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.
China Mieville
#65. The written word offered subversive possibilities in a dictatorship, offered some hope of freedom.
Anjan Sundaram
#66. It has endless possibilities, and but what we do with our arrangements, we move the borders of cello playing and discover new ways of new techniques of cello playing.
Luka Sulic
#67. All we've got left to protect here is a system that's set up to promote the meanest possibilities in human nature and make them look good.
William Gaddis
#68. I think dreams hold a lot of meaning. I believe that if the universe is truthfully infinite then there are infinite possibilities for dreams to be happening somewhere out there.
Tom DeLonge
#69. As a rule, the human mind gets attached to possessions very firmly. They don't want to lose anything. They hold on to the little possession and can't see the big possibilities.
Debasish Mridha
#70. I have a very, very good life. I'm grateful for all of my friends, my family and the life that I have, and the possibilities in my future.
Raquel Welch
#71. For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.
D.H. Lawrence
#72. If people tell you it's impossible, it's an even better reason to want to do it. People have a tendency to see the problem rather than the final result. If you treat the problems as possibilities, life will start to dance with you in the most amazing ways.
Martin Villeneuve
#73. Knowledge helps man see possibilities where he once saw problems.
Serena Stone
#74. What was in them was promise. They dealt in transformations; they suggested an endless series of possibilities, extending like the reflections in two mirrors set facing one another, stretching on, replica after replica, to the vanishing point.
Margaret Atwood
#75. Silence may be something unusual for her - and it could take time for her to adjust to the possibilities silence provides.
Linda Lantieri
#76. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world
making the most of one's best.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#77. I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.
William Mapother
#78. The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.
Viktor E. Frankl
#79. The perspectives are so labyrinthine that several possibilities must be kept open. If there is a Creator, what is he? And if there isn't a Creator, what is this world?
Jostein Gaarder
#80. Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure
Napoleon Hill
#81. A sunset is not just the end of a day, it's the making of the way for a new day and new possibilities. (From my book Full And Overflowing)
Marie Moreton
#82. When a mother elevates her communication, she naturally elevates the outcomes of her child's life since a mother's words become her child's universe of possibilities.
H. L. Balcomb
#83. Neurosis may be called a negating of possibilities; it is the shrinking up of one's world. The development of the self is this radically curtailed.
Rollo May
#84. amortized? Put differently, the vast majority of individuals, including wealthy individuals and families, find it hard to think outside the box and consider the possibilities being discussed here.
Thomas J. Anderson
#85. The international community would like to see an agreement in Libya before Ramadan, let me be very cautious about the possibilities for an agreement.
Bernardino Leon
#86. The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#87. The hours and days you spend being annoyed or frustrated are times when you deny yourself access to life's best possibilities. When you live in anger and resentment, you cut yourself off from life's goodness.
Ralph Marston
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. Limits are possibilities ... Formal restrictions, contrary to what you might think, free you up by allowing you to concentrate on purer ideas ... You can be crippled by too many choices, especially if you don't know what your goals are.
Chip Kidd
#91. The clock struck the solemn hour of one, that hour when fancy stalks outside reason, and malignant possibilities stand rock-firm as facts.
Thomas Hardy
#92. To consider possibilities was to open yourself up to pain.
Cassandra Clare
#93. Whenever I start a project, I have a broad range of possibilities.
Shaun Tan
#94. If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stale and dull, turns into a rich unending inner adventure, full of creative possibilities
Marie-Louise Von Franz
#95. Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees.
Richard Louv
#96. The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a
new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be
released and channeled toward some great good.
Brian Tracy
#97. Then you realize that the preparation and the planning of this small army of people trying to head to the single aim of creating a work that's going to excite people is very risky. Of course, the odds are that it's not going to work out because there are too many possibilities of it going wrong.
Ciaran Hinds
#98. My argument against the set-up picture is that it leaves the matter of content to the imagination of the photographer, a faculty that, in my experience, is generally deficient compared to the mad swirling possibilities that our dear common world kicks up at us on a regular basis.
Tod Papageorge
#99. I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.
Freeman Dyson