Motivational Quotes

Potential

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

Best Quotes about Potential

Man is not made for defeat.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Cardes, Liane

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.

Berkus, Rusty

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

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

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

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Wynn, Mychal

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

Houston, Jean

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

James, William

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Camus, Albert

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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