Motivational Quotes

Potential

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

Best Quotes about Potential

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Cardes, Liane

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

Dion, Celine

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

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

Santayana, George

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

Wynn, Mychal

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

Miller, Henry

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

Herbster, Ben

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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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Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Houston, Jean

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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.

Walker, Michelle

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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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Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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What you can become you are already.

Friedrich, Hebbel

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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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Man is not made for defeat.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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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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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

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

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

Camus, Albert