Quotes About Potential

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

America is too great for small dreams.

Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.

There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

If we're free to dare – and we are – if we're free to give – and we are – then we're free to shape the future and have within our grasp all that we dream the future will be.

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

You'd be amazed at the infinite possibilities of the impossible.

Ah, esas otras infinitas vidas posibles que se abrían como la cola de un pavo real en torno a nuestra existencia, todas esas modificaciones de nuestro destino que podrían haber tenido lugar con tan sólo variar un pequeño detalle.

Here's what I don't understand: if something called neuroplasticity is a hard, cold fact, why haven't we, the masses, heard much about it? Why are we left sitting here with a measly fourteen shades of grey, when, if we're talking about the brain, there are a trillion possible shades.

The teacher, as we know, can confer upon the pupil no powers which are not already latent within him, and his sole function is to assist in the awakening of slumbering faculties. But what he imparts out of his own experience is a pillar of strength for the one wishing to penetrate through darkness to light.

All of this comes out of what is now an empty space. There are depths to this. It's a lot to think about. From an empty space the future. If there's no empty space where can one put the future? It all figures if you take the time to think it out.

There are two kinds of opportunities: one which we chance upon, the other which we create.

He's got this thing about Canada. He says it's like America only with health care and no guns, and you can live up to your potential there and not have to worry about what society thinks or about getting sick or getting shot.

According to the capabilities of the reader, books have their own destinies.

Hope is a passion for the possible.

Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility

Genius never desires what does not exist.

The tedium vitae so constant in antiquity was due to the fact that the outstanding individual was what others could not be ; the inspiration of modern times will be that any man who finds himself, religiously speaking, has only achieved what every one can achieve .

Hope is passion for what is possible.

However, a self, every instant it exists, is in process of becoming, for the self [potentially] does not actually exist, it is only that which it is to become. In so far as the self does not become itself, it is not its own self; but not to be one's own self is despair.

The majority of men are curtailed I's; what was planned by nature as a possibility capable of being sharpened into an I is soon dulled into a third person.

La mayoría de los hombres se desesperarían si se les dijera cuán infinitamente rica es la existencia, y que un hombre, un solo hombre, basta, lo es todo, y que con él los más grandes acontecimientos son posibles.

College rankings, though, are very different. The rankings simply don't measure what people think they measure: the educational experience for an individual student. Doing that requires a personalized look at a college through the eyes of a potential student.