Motivational Quotes

Potential

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Potential

The Lord doesn't always choose men for what they are, but for what they can become.

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

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

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

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

Ford, Henry

What you can become you are already.

Friedrich, Hebbel

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

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

Gelb, Michael J.

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

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

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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Man is not made for defeat.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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

Bible

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

Houston, Jean

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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

James, William

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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

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Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

Holtz, Lou

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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.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Schwartz, Jack

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

Wooden, John

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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.

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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

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

Dion, Celine

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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

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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hugo, Victor

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