Quotes About Potential

Everybody has talent at twenty-five. The difficult thing is to have it at fifty.

When we anticipate all of these potential difficulties, we are experiencing learning anxiety, which often accompanies any unlearning and is the primary source of resistance to change. As long as learning anxiety remains stronger than survival anxiety, we will resist change and avoid learning.

Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.

Young man, there is America—which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.

There is nothing lost, but may be found, if sought. (No hay nada perdido, que no pueda encontrarse, si se lo busca)

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

I would blossom if I were a rose.

Remember: Extraordinary people are just ordinary people who are thinking differently—and that could be you. Ordinary

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can

Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.

I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

The future's bright, the future's Orange.

It could be you.

Alert today, alive tomorrow.

Be all that you can be.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Swimming: From the outside looking in, you can