Quotes About Possibility

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, 'progress' would become mechanical and trivial.

A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

There is a giant asleep within every man. When that giant awakes, miracles happen.

But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?

Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Some people ask, "What if the sky were to fall?"

The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

An aging man cannot rewrite his youth but a youth may rewrite his own future.

Dreams are free, so free your dreams.

If you've got a poem within you today, I can guarantee you a tomorrow.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It is a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.

El amor jamás encuentra pretexto de imposibilidad porque cree que todo lo puede y le conviene». La prudencia humana, por el contrario, tiembla a cada paso y, por decirlo así, no se atreve a apoyar el pie.

Tenía la vida por delante. Siempre tenemos la vida por delante. Lo que queda de ella.

there is no longer beauty or consolation except in the gaze falling on horror, withstanding it, and in unalleviated consciousness of negativity holding fast to the possibility of what is better.

Total purposelessness gives the lie to the totality of purposefulness in the world of domination, and only by virtue of this negation, which consummates the established order by drawing the conclusion from its own principle of reason, has existing society up to now become aware of another that is possible. The bliss of contemplation consists in disenchanted charm. Radiance is the appeasement of myth.

He had always acted as if men were masters of forces, as if all things were possible for men determined in purpose and clear in thought—even the Presidency. This perhaps is what he had best learned in 1960—even though he called his own victory a "miracle." This was what he would have to cherish alone in the White House, on which an impatient world waited for miracles.

What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.

Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge.

The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.