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Quotes About Possibility

Hope is a risk that must be run.
~ Georges Bernanos
There remains the unforseen. And the unforseen is never negligible.
~ Georges Bernanos
Here in Corfu,' said Theodore, his eyes twinkling with pride, 'anything can happen.
~ Gerald Durrell
I sighed rapturously. It was a wonderful story, and might well be true. Even it if wasn't true, it was the sort of thing that should happen
~ Gerald Durrell
A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
adds a strong imperative to act upon what has happened, a continuing invitation in which the one who is healed is meant to participate. Jesus instructs the healed one to go forth with some special intent, made possible by the healing.
~ Gerald G. May
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we will never feel the free wind blow.
~ Sonia Johnson
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
~ Samuel Johnson
Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
~ Napoleon
One who has both feet firmly planted in the air.
~ Anonymous
Sometimes I have believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
~ Lewis Carroll
Know thine opportunity.
~ Pittacus
Opportunity knocks but once.
~ Anonymous
Opportunity rarely knocks until you are ready. And few people have ever been really ready without receiving opportunity's call.
~ Channing Pollock
On the human chessboard, all moves are possible.
~ Miriam Schiff
Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it.
~ Welter's Law
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible ... what wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility!
~ Soren Kierkegaard
When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
~ Alexander Graham Bell
We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.
~ Maria Irene Fornes
R. Buckminster Fuller
~ Dare to be naïve.
There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.
~ General Douglas MacArthur
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
~ Emily Dickinson
A sobering thought: what if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?
~ Jane Wagner