Quotes About Potential

Jesus looked at them intently and said, "Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But with God everything is possible." —Matthew 19:26

That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future.

Good times don't always last. Great organizations can lose their momentum. Life and work are difficult for all of us. But we can choose our attitude. And we can seek common cause with those of like spirit who see positive potential in persons and in our fragile workplaces.

Is it positive and is it loving? That is, does the action I am considering have any potential for dealing with the wrong and helping the relationship?

The latent potential within your spouse in his or her areas of insecurity may await your encouraging words.

Other people labeled things impossible not because they couldn't be done, but because no one was doing them.

We cannot cause growth; we can only create a climate in which growth can take place.

Leaders give us permission to pursue our own greatness. They encourage us to build a future on our interests, abilities, talents, and dreams.

He knows that people marked for greater things are often the least happy of all.

recalling Bachelard's comment on poetic time in The Poetics of Reverie: "In reverie we re-enter into contact with possibilities which destiny has not been able to make use of.

In my life I've discovered that if I cling to the notion that something's not possible, I'm arguing in favor of limitation. And if I argue for my limitations, I get to keep them.

The goal in life is not to attain some imaginary ideal; it is to find and fully use our own gifts.

We humans have a long and wonderful history of transcending our beliefs about what's possible.

Things opposite unite and appear to disappear. The potential for both remains. That is one of the greatest principles of the causes of things.

I had learned in the intervening time the folly of limiting desire to the possible.

The discovery in art is often gradual, a process of minor discoveries riddled with uncertainties and the potential for making that which is discovered vanish before your eyes, like a mirage.

So far I've only read a page but I like that page a lot.

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak!

People do not become great by doing great things. They do great things because they are great.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

With the proper training, I could've been an evil genius.