potential

1.

We all have the extraordinary coded within us... waiting to be released.

- Houston, Jean

2.

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

3.

No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.

- Mccay, James T.

4.

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

- Mary Daly

5.

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

- Bible

6.

Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.

- Thomas Heatherwick

7.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

8.

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

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From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.

- R. D. Laing

10.

The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.

- Williams, Roger

11.

The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy, man's tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities. By this I mean the organic and human life, the urge to expand, extend, develop, mature - the tendency to express and activate all the capacities of the organism, or the self.

- Carl Rogers

12.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

- Huxley, Aldous

13.

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

14.

Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential.

- Robbins, Anthony

15.

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.

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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

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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. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

18.

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

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Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

- Lee, Bruce

20.

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