Quotes About Potential

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

The sum total of a day in school should not be an overwhelming reminder of what students cannot do. Ensure that all students have a school adult or activity that connects them to their best possible selves.

She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential is found in the smallest of gestures, like the uncertain resting of a large hand on a bony shoulder.

We are all future butterflies who think, wrongly, that we are just slugs. And we are evolving, whether we admit it or not, into something else. Something with wings.

If more people had the courage to discover their potential, we might find that such talents are not so rare

Futures change depending on who tries to change them.

the only thing fear yields is one dormant gift in a shallow grave.

Don't bury that talent, because the only thing fear yields is one dormant gift in a shallow grave.

Your true self or your higher self or your superhero self...gets validation from within (I love and trust myself, this feels right to me, I have a purpose, I am loved), it's proactive (I'm in control of my life, I think I'll head on out and kick me some ass), love-based, and is committed to creating based on your limitless potential-- as soon as you wake up from the Big Snooze.

INSPIRATIONAL NOTE TO SELF: Flowers grow in sand. I can do anything.

Take the first step in the direction toward something that feels right and see where it leads you. And do it NOW. 3.

Instead, try seeing yourself through the eyes of someone who admires you. They get it. They believe in you leaps and bounds. They aren't connected to your insecurities and negative beliefs about yourself. All they see is your true glory and potential. Become one of your own die-hard fans, look at yourself from the outside, where all your self doubts can't crawl all over you, and behold what shines through.

No matter how clueless you may feel right now, pay attention to suggestions and opportunities that suddenly present themselves. And notice how you feel—is there something for you that, for whatever reason, feels like it might be good to check out?

All of us are connected to this limitless power and most of us aren't using but a fraction of it.

It's not that the things and opportunities that we want in life don't exist yet. It's that we're not yet aware of their existence (or the fact that we can really have them).

I was doing pretty well—I'd published a couple of books, had lots of great friends, a close family, an apartment, a car that ran, food, teeth, clothes, clean drinking water—compared to the majority of the planet, my life was a total cream puff. But compared to what I knew I was capable of, I was, shall we say, unimpressed.

Every single person is born with unique and valuable gifts to share with the world. Once we figure out what ours are, and decide to live our lives putting them to use, that's when, and only when, the real party begins.

here we have the perfect gift to share with the world, just bursting to be opened, and we keep it sitting there, wrapped tightly in a box, growing old and gathering dust. Oh the waste! The agony! Meanwhile

They aren't connected to your insecurities and negative beliefs about yourself. All they see is your true glory and potential. Become one of your own die-hard fans, look at yourself from the outside, where all your self doubts can't crawl all over you, and behold what shines through. You get to choose how you perceive your reality.

you are surrounded by unthinkable miracles and opportunities.

Es ist nicht so, dass die Dinge und Gelegenheiten, die wir uns im Leben wünschen, noch nicht da wären. Wir sind uns ihrer Existenz - oder der Tatsache, dass wir sie haben können - nur noch nicht bewusst.

We're so deeply wrapped up in our stories—I don't have the money, I'm not good enough, I can't quit my job, I'm lazy, I have bad hair—trudging through life with our heads down, clinging to our false beliefs like lifeboats full of doo-doo, that we prevent ourselves from seeing the literally infinite sea of possibilities and opportunities surrounding us at every single moment.