Motivational Quotes

Potential

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

- Gelb, Michael J.

Best Quotes about Potential

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.

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

Houston, Jean

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Herbster, Ben

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

Hugo, Victor

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

Pilgrim, Peace

Man is not made for defeat.

Hemingway, Ernest

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.

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

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

James, William

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

Camus, Albert

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

Santayana, George

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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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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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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

Lao-Tzu

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

Cardes, Liane

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

Gardner, John W.

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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

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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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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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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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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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What you can become you are already.

Friedrich, Hebbel

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

Wynn, Mychal

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

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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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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

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

Dion, Celine

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

Schwartz, Jack

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

Gelb, Michael J.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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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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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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

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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

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