Motivational Quotes

Potential

Man is not made for defeat.

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Potential

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

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

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

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Ford, Henry

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

Ferguson, Marilyn

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Browne, Sir Thomas

10.

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

Pilgrim, Peace

11.

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

Bible

13.

Man is not made for defeat.

Hemingway, Ernest

14.

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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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 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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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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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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What you can become you are already.

Friedrich, Hebbel

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Santayana, George

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dion, Celine

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

Camus, Albert

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

Cardes, Liane

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

Herbster, Ben

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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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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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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

44.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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.

48.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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