Motivational Quotes

Potential

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

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Potential

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

A pint can't hold a quart -- if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

Deland, Margaret

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Camus, Albert

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.

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

Gardner, John W.

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Man is not made for defeat.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Houston, Jean

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Holtz, Lou

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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

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

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Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Wynn, Mychal

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

Schwartz, Jack

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

Gelb, Michael J.

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