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Quotes About Potential

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." Our
~ Alexandra Stoddard
Move your feet in the direction that is most favorable for your living up to your full potential.
~ Alexandra Stoddard
It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
~ Alexandre Dumas
You came in to this world with enough light to find your way out of the dark, enough kindness to save a soul, enough love to shift a planet. Don't worry, you are enquipped with all you could ever need. Look with in, you are drenched in magic.
~ Alexis karpouzos
What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.
~ Alfred A. Montapert
It is not uncommon for the youngest child to outstrip every other member of the family and become its most capable member.
~ Alfred Adler
You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear me, you? Got a million in you and spend pennies. Got a genius in you and think crazies. Got a heart in you and feel empties. All a you. Every you...
~ Alfred Bester
Liberal interventions that enable all children to shoot for their potential aren't just moral, they are pragmatic - any society that wastes talent to poverty or oppression isn't just evil: it is stupid.
~ David Brin
We are under a moral obligation to do our best to realize the best that human beings can be. To neglect that obligation is to waste our lives.
~ Charles Murray
I buy a lot of books I never read. But that's not really a waste, since all it takes is one idea from even one book to radically reshape the way a person leads, thinks and lives.
~ Robin S. Sharma
I think if there aren't Republicans standing up to Trump and showing America that he does not represent the Republican Party, then he has the potential to ruin the brand and turn it into toxic waste for generations.
~ Ana Navarro
I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a waste for our country not to have the human capital that we developed - geared toward improving our entire society.
~ Laurene Powell Jobs
Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.
~ Xavier Becerra
Being 16 is such a great age because I'm still really young, and I'll still have a lot of chances. But the Olympics only come every four years, so you don't want to waste an opportunity.
~ Mirai Nagasu
There's a lot of talent out there that miss their opportunities, and I just hope that AJ Styles doesn't waste his life in TNA.
~ Bret Hart
As a tennis player, or any professional athlete, our career has a shelf life. I don't want to waste any opportunities, I don't want to look back on it when I'm 45 and think I could have done a lot more.
~ John Isner
This is what I think about poverty: why waste the potential of people? You never know what you've got going in society unless you give people a chance.
~ Bill Shorten
Nothing is wasted.
~ E. V. Lucas
We've got one shot at this life, and to not be productive with what we've been given, to me, is a travesty. I think the biggest waste is when a human life is wasted. It's unforgivable.
~ Mellody Hobson
There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There is some evidence that the arts might help you in math and science.
~ Wynton Marsalis
There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
Gene Roddenbury felt that television was being wasted. That it had the potential for enlightenment and even inspiration.
~ George Takei
I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.
~ Janis Ian
I believe that there are many talented Filipinos and their talent is great and globally competitive, just waiting to be tapped. I don't want such great talent to be wasted.
~ apl.de.ap