Quotes About Potential

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.

The absolute in reason and will is the greatest power which is given to men to attain; and it is by means of this power that what the multitude admires under the name of miracles, are effected.

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

What the youth needs to be told is that a ship is a-building in his own mental dry dock, a ship with freedom of the seas.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.

I want to show the world that it is possible. It's possible to remember your self. To open your mind. To open your heart. To open your creativity. To live with less, but to live well.

Il pigro - Sapendo di essere nato per dare origine ad una farfalla, mentre gli altri si rinchiudevano in laboriosi e oscuri bozzoli, il verme si mise a saltare il più in alto possibile, credendo che così facendo avrebbe fatto uscire le ali con più facilità

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

He could not change the man he had been, but these hands would make him the man he could be

And she would do great things.

humans can build as easily as destroy,

The notebook smelled the way old books do, like dust and unrealized potential.

There's just so much to live for.

It is more important to use your gifts well than to settle for being content.

You can write anything you want on the internet, and it has the potential to become famous

Every human being is a Leonardo da Vinci. The only problem is that he doesn't know it. His parents didn't know it, and they didn't treat him like a Leonardo. Therefore he didn't become like a Leonardo. That's my basic theory.47

I tell you, kid," Deet said, "one day you'll grow up and then you won't be worth anything.

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

There was a question I wanted answered more than I wanted anything else, and it could take my life to answer it. This question was What could I be? This was what I wanted to know.

I became something they couldn't imagine, something they would have kept me from becoming, and that, it seems to me, was always in my nature to become. They

The feeling that everyone feels, of a life not lived.

great things may come from moments of nothingness.