Possibility Quotes
2817 quotes by 1843 authors
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Heroes are ordinary men and women who dare to see and meet the call of a possibility bigger than themselves. Breakthroughs are created by such…
— Werner Erhard
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The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of…
— Chuck Close
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For the Tintin books were my emotional universe. To read them felt quite simply like being loved: in advance and by an entire world of…
— Luke Davies
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If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.
— Pearl S. Buck
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If you allow for the possibilities of something better, you move toward it instinctively.
— Michael J. Fox
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You are full of wonderful possibilities. Do something with them. The most painful regrets, those which never go away, are regrets of things not done,…
— Ralph Marston
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I want you to remember the guiding principles of my life. You can be what you want to be, if you believe in yourself and…
— Kirby Puckett
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When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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When you focus on problems, you get more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you have more opportunities.
— Zig Ziglar
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One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is…
— Simone Weil
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Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a new ethic or a new way of salvation, but a new…
— N. T. Wright
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I don't want to be an icon. I want to be an idea. I want to represent possibilities.
— Will Smith
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Good advice is priceless. Not what you want to hear, but what you need to hear. Not imaginary, but practical. Not based on fear, but…
— Seth Godin
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Your path is your own, but you must walk side by side with others, with compassion and generosity as your beacons. If anything is required…
— Elizabeth Lesser
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Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving
— Jane Hirshfield
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Every economic...acti on must set about providing each inhabitant of the planet with the minimum wherewithal to live in dignity and freedom, with the possibility…
— Pope Francis
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You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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All we are given are possibilities to make ourselves one thing or another.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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