Quotes About Potential

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

Tengo confianza en mí, en lo que soy, en mi potencial".

it's important to understand that if your fears grow, you could end up holding both yourself and the other person back from living life to its full potential and successfully recovering from the traumatic experience which you saw them have. Tackling

What might the potential for humans be if we really encouraged that spirit of questioning in children, instead of closing it down? I

The What If stage is the blue-sky moment of questioning, when anything is possible. Those possibilities may not survive the more practical How stage; but it's critical to innovation that there be a time for wild, improbable ideas to surface and to inspire.

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

The promise of a dreamer's future will always remain greater than their present ability. God will always give them dreams that are further along than their current level of maturity.

So long as breath remains in our lungs, untapped potential lies inside us, waiting to be released. The reason we are still alive is that we are carrying something inside us that this generation needs. That's why we're not yet in heaven.

We don't forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential of our future.

Once you believe in yourself and see your soul as divine and precious, you will automatically become a being who can create success.

If you had the mental energy in the tank, you could create in an instant.

The more you see yourself as what you'd like to become, and act as if what you want is already there, the more you'll activate those dormant forces that will collaborate to transform your dream into your reality.

A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.

They think that the past is dead. They don't see that the past is just the beginning of the future.

Be joyful because it is humanly possible.

I believe in America because we have great dreams - and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

formal political life is a theater of nihilism: the political sphere is where nihilism is played out in raw form and also a site for overcoming or pushing back against nihilism through pursuit of worldly causes. In our time, both potentials are there, and routinely collide.

Before an apple tree is planted, no one will know how many apples will one day sprout from it. It's all about potential, and potential is hidden from all of us until we embrace it, find our purpose, plant ourselves so we can grow.

I wonder what else I could do that I never thought I could.

You built this place with your imagination, but you breathed life into it, and now it's as real as anyplace else. When you're ready, this is where you will come to focus your power. For now, it waits.

Abashed, should assumed its place in the list of what could be accomplished, what couldn't.

The sages advise us to study Torah lishma-"for its own sake" rather than to impress others with our scholarship. A paradox of parenting is that if we love our children for their own sake rather than for their achievements, it's more likely that they will reach their true potential.

Madame Merle says, "I don't pretend to know what people are meant for. . . . I only know what I can do with them.