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Possibilities

Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said. "One can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."--Lewis Carroll
All big things in this world are done by people who are naïve and have an idea that is obviously impossible.--Frank Richards
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.--William Faulkner
All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.--Cathy Guisewite
All things are possible until they are proved impossible--even the impossible may only be so, as of now.--Pearl S. Buck
Alleged "impossibilities" are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.--Charles R. Swindoll (Living Above the Level of Mediocrity)
Become a possibilitarian. 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
Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.--Robert Collier
Believing in fate produces fate. Believing in freedom will create infinite possibilities.--Ayn Rand
The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.--an Air Force motto
Don't be obsessed with the idea that there is only one possibility. If you think so, there is only one.--Katherine Butler Hathaway (The Journals and Letters of the Little Locksmith)
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.--Robert Heinlein
The future belongs to people who see possibilities before they become obvious.--Ted Levitt
The Gleam of an heroic act,
Such strange illumination--
The Possible's slow fuse it lit
By the Imagination.--Emily Dickinson (Poem #1867)
Great things are only possible with outrageous requests.--Thea Alexander
I never said it was possible. I only said it was true.--Charles Richet
I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment, my life changed.--Shirley MacLaine
If the 20th century taught us anything, it is to be cautious about the work impossible.--Charles Platt (in Wired)
The impossible is often the untried.--Jim Goodwin
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.--Douglas Adams (The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul)
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.--Robert H. Schuller
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.--Shunryu Suzuki
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?--Pliny the Elder
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.--Samuel Smiles
It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He's so big, we can never kill him." But David looked at the same giant and thought, "He's so big, I can't miss him."--Dale Turner
It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.--Soren Kierkegaard
It's kind of fun to do the impossible!--Walt Disney
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.--Robert H. Schuller
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.--Arthur C. Clarke
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.--Thomas a Kempis
Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.--Jean-Paul Sartre ("Temporalite" Situations)
Man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out of the impossible.--Max Weber ("Politics as a Vocation" Max Weber: Essays in Sociology)
My mother gave me a bumblebee pin when I started work. She said: "Aerodynamically, bees shouldn't be able to fly. But they do. Remember that."--Jill E. Barad
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.--John Keywood
Nothing that is beautiful is easy, but everything is possible.--Mercedes de Acosta
One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.--Gene Brown
Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.--Robin Morgan
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.--Clarke's Second Law (Arthur C. Clarke)
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.--Gloria Anzaldua
Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. 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
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
So many worlds, so much to do,
So little done, such things to be.--Alfred, Lord Tennyson ("In Memoriam A. H. H.")
So often we dwell on the things that seem impossible rather than on the things that are possible. So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.--Marian Wright Edelman
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.--Doug Larson
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.--Nelson Mandela
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.--St. Francis of Assisi
There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power I the world? Then be yourself.--Ralph Waldo Trine
Think about your future possibilities and the fact that your potential is virtually unlimited. You can do what you want to do and go where you want to go. You can be the person you want to be. You can set large and small goals and make plans and move step-by-step, progressively toward their realization. There are no obstacles to what you can accomplish except the obstacles that you create in your mind.--Brian Tracy
This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.--Bette Davis
What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.--Dorothee Solle (The Truth Is Concrete)
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 (Time Magazine 2/15/71)
When everything is lost, anything is possible.--Robert Inman (Captain Saturday)
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.--Margaret Drabble
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.--Gloria Steinem
The Wright brother flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.--Charles F. Kettering
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible--and achieve it.--Pearl S. Buck