Quotes About Potential

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.… Man is something that must be overcome.

We all spend our lives living beside the people we could have been.

Everything living deserves a chance to grow.

But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a great fighter or athlete or poet. I only made wine. The people in my village laughed at me. They said I would never amount to anything. Look at me now. Sometimes small things can become very large indeed.

You're sure?' I asked. 'I mean, the Lord of the Sword is great. But you could also be, I don't know, the Slammer of the Hammer'.

They said I would never amount to anything. Look at me now. Sometimes small things can become very large indeed.

If God only used perfect people, nohting would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.

Fear is a self-imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be.

God has not called you to be the best in the world at anything! He has called you to be the best you can be, given your background, experiences, opportunities, and abilities.

How would it make you feel if God showed you what you could have accomplished in life if you had just believed him a little bit more?

When you think of the limitation in your life, you may be tempted to conclude, "God could never use me." But God is never limited by our limitations.

If her talent had been ten-fold greater than it was, it would not have surprised him, convinced as he was that he had bequeathed to all of his daughters the germs of a masterful capability, which only depended upon their own efforts to be directed toward successful achievement.

Who can say what astonishments are hidden inside the most mundane being?

You. Now. This you can do.

He is wrong; my talent is not a great one, but no talent is wholly wasted unless its owner chooses to hide it in a napkin. Remember that of your own gifts, Rebecca; they may not be praised of men, but they may cheer, console, inspire, perhaps, when and where you least expect. The brimming glass that overflows its own rim moistens the earth about it.

no talent is wholly wasted unless its owner chooses to hide it in a napkin.

The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become.

Most things are possible, if one decides they are.

You're the proverbial diamond in the rough, she'd said to him once, touching his nose lightly with the tip of her electrifying finger.

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In fact, there should be a marked absence of perfection in a muse--a gaping hole between what she is and what she might be. The ideal muse is a woman whose rough edges and contradictions drive you to fill in the blanks of her character. She is the irritant to your creativity. A remarkable possibility, waiting to be formed.

Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.

No one is too small for anything. You just have to think big!