Quotes About Potential

You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.

When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.

All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,'--which is just another way of saying that you can't.

And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know.

Each moment is a moment of choice ~ a time to leave the old, the limited, the restrained, and the contracted for the new, the unbound, and the liberating potential that expands before you.

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.

Wait until companies have an initial prototype, have shown that they have the potential to be profitable and have the ability to scale. That's the best time to invest.

Now is the best time to start becoming the person we eventually want to be—not only 20 years from now but also for all eternity.

Each time I think I've reached a limit....there is a door....it opens....and the limit is gone.

Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

The curse of having young people about the house was that they were always so redolent of possibility.

You don't know what happiness lies before you yet, you are now only in the commencement of your journey.

And why should I take it for granted that my son will be one in a thousand? – and not rather prepare for the worst, and suppose he will be like his – like the rest of mankind, unless I take care to prevent it?

You don't know what happiness lies before you yet," said I: "you are now only in the commencement of your journey." "The best of happiness," replied he, "is mine already—the power and the will to be useful.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me. I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear; my courage is reborn. But, and that is the great question, will I ever be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?

If young people wished, they have it in their hands to make a bigger, more beautiful and better world, but that they occupy themselves with superficial things, without giving a thought to real beauty.

The spirit of man is great how puny are his deeds

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

The author of this book ciritcizes the youth of today from top to toe, without, however, condemning the whole of the young brigade as incapable of anything good.

I know that I can write, a couple of my stories are good, my descriptions of the 'Secret Annex' are humorous, there's a lot in my diary that speaks, but whether I have real talent remains to be seen.