Quotes About Potential

No one knows the extent of his powers unless he has tested them thoroughly.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be." ? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that you can make anything happen.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Qualquer coisa que você possa fazer ou sonhar, você pode começar. A ousadia tem genialidade, poder e magia em si.

One must be something in order to do something.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.

Der Glauben an sich selbst ist Magie, wenn du das tust, kannst du alles erreichen.

Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply To the day to day obstacles of life - Facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, Testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, Discovering our own unique potentional.

Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life – facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential.

Anyone who expects to create, be it as a scientist or artist, scholar or writer, needs self-confidence, even bravado. How else can one dare to imagine understanding what no one else has understood, discovering what no one else has discovered? Where does this confidence come from? Fortunately, every young person is blessed with some of it. It is part of human character.

Friendship unveils potentials and abilities.

We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.

The promise is that again and again from the garbage the scattered feathers the ashes and broken bodies something new and beautiful may be born

Many are unable to function properly in their calling because of the wounds and hurts that offenses have caused in their lives. They are handicapped and hindered from fulfilling their full potential. Most often it is a fellow believer who has hurt them.

They believed my story was over, but it was nearly the beginning.

I've always believed that if women could only collectively harness the power that they have then they'd rule the world.

I venerate the intellect of man. I believe in its undreamed-of possibilities, when it grows free like an oak in the forest and is not dwarfed in a flower-pot. From that allegiance I have never wavered. That is the God I have never forsworn.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, break loose, and do something terrible. [Burnside, p. 27]

Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential.

It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and we make mistakes, but we sometimes get glimpses of what we might do next.

The world is teeming; anything can happen.