Motivational Quotes

Potential

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

Best Quotes about Potential

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

Schwartz, Jack

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

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

Tracy, Brian

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

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

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

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Cardes, Liane

Man is not made for defeat.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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Now the Name of Jesus is a concrete and powerful means of transforming men and women into their hidden, innermost utmost reality.

Bible

29.

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.

30.

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

Hugo, Victor

31.

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

Houston, Jean

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

Wynn, Mychal

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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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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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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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Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

Pilgrim, Peace

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What you can become you are already.

Friedrich, Hebbel

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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.

49.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

James, William