Quotes about potential

"Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself."

Alda, Alan on potential
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"There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential."

Berkus, Rusty on potential   

"Now the Name of Jesus is a concrete and powerful means of transforming men and women into their hidden, innermost utmost reality."

Bible on potential
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"Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles."

Browne, Sir Thomas on potential
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"Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery. These models of excellence will inspire you and guide you toward the fulfillment of your highest potential."

Buzan, Tony on potential   

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

Camus, Albert on potential
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"Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential."

Cardes, Liane on potential
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"Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being."

Carlyle, Thomas on potential   

"Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others."

Carlyle, Thomas on potential
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"The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas; they are in the hearts and minds of men."

Claxton, Allen E. on potential   

"Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure."

Covey, Stephen R. on potential
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"A pint can't hold a quart -- if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it."

Deland, Margaret on potential   

"Its the moment you think you can't that you realize you can."

Dion, Celine on potential   

"Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future."

Ferguson, Marilyn on potential   

"There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do."

Ford, Henry on potential
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"What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity, intellect and resources -- to do something about them."

Ford, Henry on potential   

"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"

Frank, Anne on potential
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"What you can become you are already."

Friedrich, Hebbel on potential   

"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem."

Gandhi, Mahatma on potential
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"The cynic says, One man can't do anything. I say, Only one man can do anything."

Gardner, John W. on potential   

"... by stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence."

Gelb, Michael J. on potential   

"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?"

Gibran, Kahlil on potential
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"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on potential
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"Man is not made for defeat."

Hemingway, Ernest on potential   

"The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become."

Herbster, Ben on potential
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"I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary."

Holtz, Lou on potential
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"We all have the extraordinary coded within us... waiting to be released."

Houston, Jean on potential   

"Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?"

Hugo, Victor on potential
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"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so."

Irion, Mary Jean on potential
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"Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger."

James, William on potential   

"Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits."

James, William on potential   

"If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick."

James, William on potential
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"For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions."

Lao-Tzu on potential   

"We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings."

Maslow, Abraham H. on potential   

"And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?"

Miller, Henry on potential   

"When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently."

Miller, Henry on potential   

"By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being."

Montagu, Ashley on potential
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"A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on potential   

"I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge."

Norman, Greg on potential
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"Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential."

Pilgrim, Peace on potential