Quotes About Potential

This lifetime is yours to make what you will of it

Eve's daughters are as flowers and none can ever say they are through unfolding. And what man can predict the consummate end of such a life when its ultimate center is Sharon's Rose?

All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes.

there's always a hope, you never know.

Human beings. They are the ones with the most important job. They are supposed to make what they want out of what they are given.

For all that we might be, if only we'd let ourselves.

One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.

The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.

So this, I believe, is the central question upon which all creative living hinges: Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?

And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?

If you're alive, you're a creative person.

I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?

The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt to discover those jewels––that's creative living.

I happen to believe we are all walking repositories of buried treasure.

The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt to uncover those jewels—that's creative living. The courage to go on that hunt in the first place—that's what separates a mundane existence from a more enchanted one.

I happen to believe we are all walking repositories of buried treasure. I believe this is one of the oldest and most generous tricks the universe plays on us human beings, both for its own amusement and for ours: The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt to uncover those jewels—that's creative living.

Most of all, though, he asked his students to be brave. Without bravery, he instructed, they would never be able to realize the vaulting scope of their own capacities. Without bravery, they would never know the world as richly as it longs to be known.

As the saying goes: "Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them.

But if your calling is to make things, then you still have to make things in order to live out your highest creative potential—and also in order to remain sane.

Which is to say, the Romans didn't believe that an exceptionally gifted person was a genius; they believed that an exceptionally gifted person had a genius.

The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt to uncover those jewels—that's creative living. The courage to go on that hunt in the first place—that's what separates a mundane existence from a more enchanted one.

you will never be able to create anything interesting out of your life if you don't believe that you're entitled to at least try.

The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt to uncover those jewels - that's creative living.

just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst right into bloom.