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Quotes About Potential

When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.
~ Salman Rushdie
Once you have been in an earthquake you know, even if you survive without a scratch, that like a stroke in the heart, it remains in the earth's breast, horribly potential, always promising to return, to hit you again, with an even more devastating force.
~ Salman Rushdie
Genius was being born in her, filling the empty spaces in her bed, her heart, her womb. She needed no-one but herself.
~ Salman Rushdie
But a man may dream, and in his dreams be other than he is.
~ Salman Rushdie
We underestimate our fellow humans because we underestimate ourselves. They - we - are capable of being much more than we seem
~ Salman Rushdie
Anything you want to be, you can be: You can be just what-all you want.
~ Salman Rushdie
But what I learned from the Widow's Hand is that whose who would be gods fear no one so much as other potential deities
~ Salman Rushdie
I remember thinking, "Far out, I can't believe this," when I started riding waves. Then I was starting to imagine where it could take me.
~ Mark Occhilupo
If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?
~ Wilt Chamberlain
There are always late bloomers [in sport], no matter size, although big men are more often late bloomers.
~ Michael Wilbon
You must allow your players to become the athletes they can be. Don't make them into anything just to become the kind of winners fans, friends and others think they must be.
~ John Kessel
I try to help my athletes visualize their full potential, and then get out of the way as they achieve it.
~ Pat Roberts
Don't wait to be a great man; be a great boy!
~ Ralph Jordan
Never underestimate your own strength. You were born for a purpose and are blessed with the power to achieve it.
~ Leon Brown
A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.
~ Barack Obama
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
~ Richard E. Byrd
This is not about going back. This is about life being ahead of you and you run at it! Because you never know how far you can run unless you run.
~ Penny Chenery Secretariat
In special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength.
~ Temple Grandin
Every single one of us possesses the strength to attempt something he isn't sure he can accomplish.
~ Scott Jurek
As we follow [the Savior], He blesses us with gifts, talents, and the strength to do His will, allowing us to go beyond our comfort zones and do things we've never before thought possible.
~ Robert D. Hales
We cannot succeed when half of us are held back. We call upon our sisters around the world to be brave, to embrace the strength within themselves and realize their full potential.
~ Malala Yousafzai
There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.
~ Paul J. Meyer
I believe that every person is born with talent.
~ Maya Angelou
There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.
~ Henry Rollins