Motivational Quotes

Potential

What you can become you are already.

- Friedrich, Hebbel

Best Quotes about Potential

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Wynn, Mychal

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Houston, Jean

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

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

James, William

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

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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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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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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

13.

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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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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Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Lao-Tzu

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Man is not made for defeat.

Hemingway, Ernest

21.

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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Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Wooden, John

24.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Schwartz, Jack

27.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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

30.

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

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

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

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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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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.

41.

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

Santayana, George

42.

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

Cardes, Liane

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

Dion, Celine