Quotes About Potential

We never know how high we are We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise; And then, if we are true to plan, Our statures touch the skies— The Heroism we recite Would be a daily thing, Did not ourselves the Cubits warp For fear to be a King—

What I can do - I will - Though it be as little as a Daffodil - That I cannot - must be Unknown to possibility -

We never know how high we are, until we are called to rise. And then if we are true to plan, our statures tough the skies.

We never know how high we are until we are called to rise, and then if we are true to plan, out statures touch the skies.

Who counts in this world and how much? Who does the deciding? Who has "potential" (that is, value) and who does not?

Who knows what we all are before anything happens?

Was genius a weed that sprang up anywhere, or did it need a particular habitat?

People can only do what they can do.

a small spark can start a great fire

There is nothing in the universe that you cannot do or be if you are mentally ready.

You can't possibly do anything if you think you can't. But you can do impossible things sometimes if you think you can.

Probably is absolutely the best I can do.

Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Therefore, give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths. Remain steadfast...and one day you will build something that endures: something worthy of your potential.

If you have assumed a character beyond your strength, you have both played a poor figure in that, and neglected one that is within your powers.

Consider first, man, what the matter is, and what your own nature is able to bear. If you would be a wrestler, consider your shoulders, your back, your thighs; for different persons are made for different things.

To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.

Things which are not are indeed mightier than things that are. In all ages men have fought most desperately for beautiful cities yet to be built and gardens yet to be planted.

Sering dikatakan orang bahwa bakat memberi banyak kesempatan untuk maju. Namun semangat besarlah yang kerap memberi kesempatan, dan bahkan memberi banyak bakat.

To the child, the savage, and the Wall Street operator everything seems possible, hence their credulity.

The discarded and rejected are often the raw material of a nation's future. The stone the builders reject becomes the cornerstone of a new world. A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. It was not the irony of history that the undesired in the countries of Europe should have crossed an ocean to build a new world on this continent. Only they could do it.

The discarded and rejected are often the raw material of a nation's future.

By deliberately withholding power, you generate more. By choosing to redirect it, you remember that the choice is yours. Such acts remind us how much dormant civic power we actually have—and how infrequently we ever activate that potential in full.

Remind yourself and others that power is in fact infinite—that we can create it where it does not exist. Our final strategy for doing that is simply this: act powerful. When we act powerful we become powerful. That plays out in the poses and stances we strike in civic life, in the art we make together in everyday life, and in the reality of minority rule.

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.