Possibility is the condition or fact of being possible. Latin origins of the word hint at ability. Profoundly inspirational possibility quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
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Famous Possibility Quotes
Our enemy is more aware than we are of the spiritual possibilities that depend upon obedience. Amy Carmichael
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair. Walker Percy
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well. Cornel West
There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within. Susan Anton
Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered it. Cody Horn
There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation. Alain Badiou
They will open up to what I would call corporate broadcastings where the non-commercial material will have air time. There’s no possibility of that here right now, none. Ann Macbeth
What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them? Jane Addams
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. Alice Walker
An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities. Jami Attenberg
Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter. Martin Heidegger
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. Aristotle
I was always interested in the possibility maybe of finding my way into a big adventure. Trenton Lee Stewart
What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn’t like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that could happen. Chuck Palahniuk
There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult. Ernst Haas
There’s always been a potential erotic possibility with objects. Claes Oldenburg
It is amazing how, when all possibilities seem to be taken away from you, the minutest opening can become a great freedom. Azar Nafisi
Amazing Possibility Quotes
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality. Harry Emerson Fosdick
If you’re any kind of artist, you’ve got to … keep opening yourself to new possibilities. Ian McDiarmid
The marathon is a competition between your will and your possibilities Jeff Galloway
All I can do is make the best of what I am, become accustomed to it, evaluate the possibilities, and take advantage of them the best I can. Jean-Paul Sartre
Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies. Jean Houston
In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending. Alan Greenspan
Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged. Marilyn Hacker
A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope. Howard Thurman
There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before. Henry David Thoreau
Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities, Artur Davis
I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology. Vernor Vinge
No one can help you if you’re stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work’s possibilities. Annie Dillard
I suppose what’s happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture. Peter Singer
In between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities. Howard Zinn
When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. Eckhart Tolle
There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in Childhood’s End. But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are. Arthur C. Clarke
When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them. Jeff Koons
Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state. Todd Gitlin
Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility. Dale Dauten
Faith has to take in all the other possibilities it can. Flannery O’Connor
The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope. Evelyn Underhill
This isn’t even something I’ve feared, because I never knew it was a possibility. David Levithan
We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities. Thabo Mbeki
Unbounded awareness is the reservoir of possibilities. Deepak Chopra
I look for good possibilities in movies. I don’t look for perfection. Christopher Walken
I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility of never having to stop painting, never having to stop taking photographs and so on, and to actually live a cultural life. Dennis Hopper
Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings. Marianne Williamson
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone. Karl Barth
I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing. Fernando Pessoa
The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized Charles Ives
Top Possibility Quotes
To meditate is to discover new possibilities, to awaken the capacities of us has to live more wisely, more lovingly, more compassionately, and more fully. Jack Kornfield
Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was. Douglas Coupland
Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner. Hans Bender
The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living. Thabo Mbeki
The possibility of a war under the current circumstances is not far-fetched and there is some evidence for that. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
I have great hopes for the possibility of a dynamic universalism that respects all our people. Anthony Braxton
Naturally, love’s the most distant possibility. Georges Bataille
Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check. Alexander McCall Smith
I’m interested when things are upside down – because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed. Anna Deavere Smith
Invest in a feather duster – the possibilities are endless. Anne Rice
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. Edmund Wilson
I try not to bring in anything I don’t love looking at. It’s about restaint … There is something about an unfinished quality that leaves within you that sense of possibility. Caio Fonseca
The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas. Herbie Hancock
Abroad, they have covered pretty much all subjects, explored every possibility, every twist. So similarities between ideas you have and those filmed abroad are quite possible. Ajay Devgan
The novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture. Flannery O’Connor
Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty. Diana Vreeland
If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him. Flannery O’Connor
I feel like I haven’t done my best work yet. I feel like there’s a world of possibilities out there. Liza Minnelli
Success is not a straight line, it’s much more of a dance and being open to possibilities. Arianna Huffington
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places. Franz Kafka
Monogamy is a possibility – and a necessity. Kids have got to have something they can rely on. You have got to have something you rely on. Bob Hoskins
This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal. Dag Hammarskjold
Recognize the possibility of the divine in any given moment. Dani Shapiro
At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early. George McGovern
The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them. Ai Weiwei
We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope. Edward Abbey
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right. Igor Stravinsky
I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories. William Mapother
One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. Abraham Maslow
Every minute that you save by making it useful, more profitable, is so much added to your life and its possibilities. Every minute lost is a neglected by-product – once gone, you will never get it back. Arthur Brisbane
Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open. Jerry Saltz
Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important. Colum McCann
So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities. Arthur Rock
Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a possibility. Otherwise, why go on? Lesley Ann Warren
In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state Peter L. Berger
Music begins where the possibilities of language end. Jean Sibelius
Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me. Antonio Banderas
You can do anything, literally, right? That’s one of the exciting possibilities of the present. Charles Olson
In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right. Antony Jay
Open your mind to all possibilities and believe! Bernie Siegel
I don’t think about what I can’t do or what I shouldn’t be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really. Paul Weller
There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we’re here to explore new possibilities. Ray Charles
I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities. Whoopi Goldberg
Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose. J. K. Rowling
I am grateful that I didn’t let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness. Mariska Hargitay
I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, Hmmm, this has some possibilities. Eddie Vedder
Anything is always a possibility. Wouldn’t talk about what we would have done or what we would do. Everything is a possibility. Jim Harbaugh
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her. Adrienne Rich
