I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
—Max Lerner (1902–92) American Journalist, Educator, Author
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.
—A. E. Hotchner (1917–2020) American Author, Playwright
If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.
—Les Brown
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.
—Richard DeVos (1926–2018) American Businessman, Philanthropist
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
—Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English Novelist, Scriptwriter
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.
—Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) South African Political leader
There is no such thing as no chance.
—Malcolm S. Forbes (1919–1990) American Publisher, Businessperson
Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end.
—Anonymous
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.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer
What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.
—Dorothee Solle (1929–2003) German Lutheran Theologian, Activist
Two people can do anything as long as one of them is the Lord.
—Indian Proverb
Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.
—Robin Morgan (b.1941) American Poet, Writer, Activist
As you start to see the possibilities in the impossible, you will begin to see that the world works “perfectly”. You can find reason and purpose in everything—if you open your mind to it.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
We must dare to think ‘unthinkable’ thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about ‘unthinkable things’ because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
—J. William Fulbright (1905–95) American Politician
You never know what you can do until you try.
—Unknown
We have more than we use.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
—Walt Disney (1901–66) American Entrepreneur
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.
—Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
—Charles F. Kettering (1876–1958) American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Businessperson
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
—Unknown
You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once.
—Oprah Winfrey (b.1954) American TV Personality
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
—Unknown
Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.
—Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author
If I had some idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?
—Richard DeVos (1926–2018) American Businessman, Philanthropist
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
—Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British Scientist, Science-fiction Writer
The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, “Thus far and no farther.”
—Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Composer, Musician
If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few.
—Shunryu Suzuki (1904–71) Zen Buddhist Monk, Author
Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
—William James (1842–1910) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
—Margaret Drabble (b.1939) English Novelist, Critic, Biographer, Short Story Writer
They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
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