Quotes about potential




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"Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled."

Porter, Katherine Anne on potential    Share


"I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could."

Rabelais, Francois on potential    Share

"I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong."

Richards, Ann on potential    Share

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

Santayana, George on potential    Share

"When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do."

Schwab, Charles M. on potential    Share

"We are hoarding potentials so great that they are just about unimaginable."

Schwartz, Jack on potential    Share

"For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally."

Shakespeare, William on potential    Share

"Lord we may know what we are, but know not what we may be."

Shakespeare, William on potential
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"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."

Socrates on potential    Share

"One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full."

Spark, Muriel on potential    Share

"We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being."

Thoreau, Henry David on potential    Share

"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."

Tracy, Brian on potential    Share

"The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good."

Tracy, Brian on potential    Share

"You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you."

Tracy, Brian on potential    Share

"An old colored brother is said to have finished his prayer with words like these: and now good Lord; I know that you ain't going to let nothing come to me that me and you together can't handle."

Unknown, Source on potential    Share

"Some people who think that everything is a nail, are down on themselves because they are not a hammer. They tend to deprecate their own unique talents and capacities to use a chisel or a pair of pliers."

Unknown, Source on potential    Share

"Reach up as far as you can, and God will reach down all the way."

Unknown, Source on potential    Share

"A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion... .this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reason and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons."

Bach, Richard on potential
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"The Lord doesn't always choose men for what they are, but for what they can become."

Unknown, Source on potential    Share

"I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive."

Wade, Virginia on potential
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"If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never been in bed with a mosquito."

Walker, Michelle on potential
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"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."

Walpole, Sir Hugh on potential    Share

"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability."

Wooden, John on potential
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"The greatest quest in life is to reach one's potential."

Wynn, Mychal on potential    Share

"It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference."

Ziglar, Zig on potential
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"Denying your potential is emotionally unhealthy, but being proud of own potential leads to destruction. Where's the balance point then? Be revealed of who Christ is, of who you are in Christ, and of how your oneness with Christ leads you to the best possible version of yourself."

Sabarus, Grace on potential    Share

"Possible impossibility emerges from an impossible possibility, or possibly, impossible possibility blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on potential    Share

"Be the tomorrow you want to see today."

Trean, A. Brandon on potential    Share

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