Quotes About Potential

Opportunities show up in direct proportion to your willingness to recognize them.

Mediocrity does not befit your true magnitude.

The person you are is far greater than the person you think you are.

If you have space for a flawed person to do great things and succeed, you give yourself the same permission. On a human level, we are all flawed. On a divine level, we are all perfect.

All limits exist only in thought, and that is where they are overcome.

Take the smallest step into a new room, and you will gain entrée to vast worlds you could not see when you clung to the familiar. Acknowledge who you are and how you want to live, and the doors to your destiny will swing open before you.

If you want your destiny to be greater than your history, give no credence to history and all credence to possibility.

Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him?

Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying

Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God's eternal purposes for his world. Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church—reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.

It is a mystery to me," he told me, "why we have quantum mechanics when there is only one state of the universe." In other words, why should there be probabilities of alternative conditions of our universes when we inhabit only one condition? And do those other potential conditions actually exist in other universes somewhere?

Everybody is becoming [a superhero]. In the past I've tried to say, 'Look, we are all crappy superheroes,' because personal computers and mobile phone devices are things that only Bat Man and Mr Fantastic would have owned back in the sixties. We've all got this immense power and we're still sat at home watching pornography and buying scratch cards. We're rubbish, even though we are as gods.

Things have their shape in time, not space alone. Some marble blocks have statues within them, embedded in their future.

If things were no longer going on the way they should be, didn't that mean anything could happen?

Magic means nothing. It has the potential to connect us to something wonderful, as does any performance, but it is not wonderful in itself, for it is inseparable from the particular performance in which it is experienced. A magician who is too fast, too slow, mumbles, shouts, smells, is unlikeable or incomprehensible will unavoidably taint his magic with his personal failings.

To see things as they really are, you must imagine them for what they might be.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

Only when humans realize that they have been blessed with the intellectual wherewithal to outgrow animal needs and fears, will they truly evolve and discover their potential.

In Hinduism, dharma means realizing our potential: changing ourselves into the best we theoretically can be. What is that? Humans

Anything is possible if you can give shape to limitless spirit without the limitations of matter,' said Brahma.

Though nobleman, he can never be king. Though cowherd, he can always lead.

Arjuna, in age after age, whenever humanity forgets its potential and functions as it should not, I manifest to inspire those with faith and shake up those without faith, so that humanity never ever forgets what it is capable of.'—Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, verses 7 and 8 (paraphrased).

To let our potential be realized without deriving our identity from it, or without denying its existence, is the hallmark of wisdom.

God is not an external trophy to be possessed; God is internal human potential to be realized.