Quotes About Potential

I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run.

all good things come from what is inside you.

They say the seeds of what we will do are all in us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

It came from a piece of old wood that he found in the yard somewhere. That's what we all are, Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood, until we—each one of us, individually—decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better. Because we need you to be and want you to be.

It came from a piece of old wood that he found in the yard somewhere. That's what we all are, Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood, until we--each one of us, individually--decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better. Because we need you to be and want you to be. --Grant

Man is that which has still much before it. He is repeatedly transformed in his work and by it. [...] The authentic in man and in the world is potential, waiting, living in fear of being frustrated, living in hope of succeeding.

ich aufrichtender Mensch und noch nicht ausdeterminierte reale Möglichkeit, das sind für die Entwicklung unseres Lebens, unserer Literatur, Philosophie, Praxis sicher die unabdingbarsten Kategorien.

It takes courage to not only accept our limitations but embrace our potential. To deny our creative nature is to choose a life where we are less and thus responsible for less. We see ourselves as created beings, so we choose to survive. When we see ourselves as creative beings, we must instead create.

I have come to realize, after over thirty years of studying human creativity, that the great divide is not between those who are artists and those who are not, but between those who understand that they are creative and those who have become convinced that they are not.

The tragedy of a life that is never fully lived is not simply the loss of that one life. The tragedy is the endless number of lives that would have been forever changed if we had chosen to live differently.

The great tragedy that I have witnessed over and over again is that we keep underestimating how much God wants to do in us and through us. Too many of us have believed the lies we have been told: that we're not good enough, we're not smart enough, we're not talented enough, we're just not enough. One of the facets of God that makes him extraordinary is his ability to do the impossible through ordinary, everyday, common people like you and me.

If we choose to live a small life, we do not make enough room for a big GOD.

Genius is a gift we are given; mastery is the stewardship of our gifts.

Discipleship...a process of unleashing the creative potential in each person.

You need to act like your life depends on it, because it's never just your life involved. You need to never settle for less because the world desperately needs everything you can bring to the table.

If you are comfortable with where you are, you will never know how far you can go. If you refuse to change, then you refuse to grow.

Nobody really knows which is happening when the teacher closes the door. At worst, mediocrity. At best, miracles.

Thirty-one children. Thirty-one chances. Thirty-one futures, our futures. It's an almost psychotic feeling, believing that part of their lives belongs to me.

Human relations never seem to stand completely still. This apple, for instance. It might ripen into something better than it now was, or, unromantically, it might rot away in his pocket.

Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. —Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

In uncertainty lies the seed of wanting.

Beginnings are always ripe with possibilities, for they hold the promise of completion.

Emily Dickinson, the poet, said a beautiful thing. "I dwell in possibility".

So much one man can do,That does both act and know.