Quotes About Potential

As long as you live, there's always something waiting.

Now, if you asked him what he was going to do with himself, he'd tell you he guessed he might do anything he set his mind to. But he'd say it in a far-off way, as if he didn't really mean it or care much at all.

growth itself contains the germ of happiness, maybe a germ is enough, maybe its all you need

Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away!

Não mais enraizada, mas dourada, fluida. Sinto mil capacidades brotarem em mim.

Remember what Michelangelo said about the sculpture being inside the stone - it was there from the beginning, and his job was the bring it out. Violet mother

I did what I felt I could do. Could I have done more? Possibly. Yes. We can always do more. It's a tough question to answer, and, ultimately, a pointless one to ask.

Genes are deterministic but they are not destiny.

You can be your best self wherever you are.

It was the promise of maybe, maybe one day.

Sólo sabes que realmente eres capaz de hacer algo si lo sigues haciendo.

We were never a thing, not really, but we almost were, and to me, that's something.

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.

I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.

The fruit which is an hundredfold and that which is sixtyfold both spring from one seed

Any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educatability of man -- the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.

Anything is possible now!

So we see that God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours. God does not do that for us. To confuse the potential for resisting (which God provided) with the responsibility for resisting (which is ours) is to court disaster in our pursuit of holiness.

To confuse the potential for resisting (which God provided) with the responsibility for resisting (which is ours) is to court disaster in our pursuit of holiness.

God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours. God does not do that for us. To confuse the potential for resisting (which God provided) with the responsibility for resisting (which is ours) is to court disaster in our pursuit of holiness." (The Pursuit of Holiness, 57)

Sometimes, big trees grow out of acorns. I think I heard that from a squirrel.

What's been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.