Quotes About Potential

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.

A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.

They probably think because I am so small and young, nothing of greatness and class can come out of me; but they shall soon find out.

The power of any art is limited

Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.

What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?

Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.

Lo que yo puedo hacer no es sino insignificante. Si puedo hacerlo yo, cualquiera puede hacerlo.

The death anxiety of many people is fueled ... by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential. Many people are in despair because their dreams didn't come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true. A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.

Opportunity is born with each new year.

When I was a Poet Everything was Possible there wasn't Anything that wasn't Poetry

Surely you're not saying that the life of a human and the life of an animal are of the same value?' he ventured. 'As humans we have much greater potential, of course,' His Holiness replied. 'But the way we all want very much to stay alive, the way we cling to our particular experience of consciousness-in this way human and animal are equal.

What if someone conducted tens of thousands of hours of rigorous investigation to discover truths about the nature of consciousness? Suppose other people replicated the research over hundreds of years. How amazing would it be not just to have an intellectual understanding of the mind's potential but also to establish the most rapid and direct way to realize it? That is the science of Buddhism.

Sometimes we need to be reminded what we're capable of.

As humans we have much greater potential, of course," His Holiness replied. "But the way we all want very much to stay alive, the way we cling to our particular experience of consciousness—in this way human and animal are equal.

The true purpose of alchemy is about reining in our baser instincts –' he nodded towards me '– and realizing our highest potential.

All of us have to start somewhere. Where you start is unimportant. What matters is where you finish.

Our life as a human being with some leisure and good fortune is not to be squandered. It's an opportunity that's rare and priceless. When we truly know this, we are profoundly grateful for the potential that each day brings.

The true purpose of alchemy is about reining in our baser instincts and realizing our highest potential.

So many things that might have been," Edgar said. "My life – I'm afraid – will be recorded as a series of things that are, and better things that might have been. My heart is sore, and I have never felt so weary.

Today. This bright new day that awaits us

The problem with telling people that they can do anything they want to do is that it is objectively, factually inaccurate. Otherwise the whole world would just be ballet dancers and pop stars.

But like my dad used to say, the crucial thing about an education is the opportunity that it brings, the doors it opens, because otherwise knowledge, in and of itself, is a blind alley, especially from where I'm sitting.