Motivational Quotes

Potential

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

Best Quotes about Potential

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

The cynic says, One man can't do anything. I say, Only one man can do anything.

Gardner, John W.

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

Walker, Michelle

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

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

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

Gelb, Michael J.

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

Miller, Henry

11.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Herbster, Ben

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

Dion, Celine

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What you can become you are already.

Friedrich, Hebbel

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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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The greatest quest in life is to reach one's potential.

Wynn, Mychal

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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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Man is not made for defeat.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Holtz, Lou

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

James, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential.

Cardes, Liane

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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

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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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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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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.

Iron, Mary Jean

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Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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

Schwartz, Jack

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

Santayana, George

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Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Ford, Henry

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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.

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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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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