Quotes About Potential

Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.

To have the capacity for happiness was, presumably, to be able to envisage a future in which happiness could have its place.

I can see it's all there. All there, but nothing yet done. I can see it in the eyes, all there already in the eyes.

Ciascuno di noi ha più qualità di quel che non si creda, ma solo il successo le mette in luce, forse perché allora ci si aspetta di vederci smettere di esercitarle.

Cada uno de nosotros posee más virtudes de lo que se cree, pero sólo el éxito las pone de relieve

Each of us has more virtues than he is credited with, but success alone brings them to view, perhaps because then we may be expected to cease practicing them.

Cada uno de nosotros posee más virtudes de lo que se cree, pero sólo el éxito las pone de relieve, quizá porque entonces se espera que dejemos de manifestarlas.

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.

You have tremendous gifts to give; God sent them with you when you came to this earth. And while you might forget them, or doubt they exist, God does not forget and He will show them to you. As soon as your gifts are dedicated to His work, they will blossom. Chains that might have held you back for years will dissolve. And you will feel free. You will learn that your spirit is bigger than your circumstances, as soon as you put your spirit first.

you're on this earth with a divine purpose: to rise to the level of your highest creative possibility, expressing all that you are intellectually, emotionally, psychologically, and physically in order to make the universe a more beautiful place.

We lack faith in *what* exists within us because we lack faith in *Who* exists within us.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

God has given you your identity, and that cannot be taken away. God has imbued you with infinite potential, and that cannot be taken away. God has provided you with the opportunity to change your thinking in an instant, and that cannot be taken away. God has given you the capacity to love, and that cannot be taken away. God has entrusted you with the power to live in the light of His abundance in any moment, and that cannot be taken away.

Harry Potter is one boy in a long line of mythical heroes who have reminded the human race that we are so much more than we think we are, so much more powerful than we seem to know. Jesus said that we would someday do even greater works than He; should we not take Him at His word? And should not 'someday' be today? It's time for us to start working miracles, if indeed we have the capacity within us to do so.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

People are not perfect—that is, they do not yet express externally their internal perfection.

the Holy Spirit is within us to do the impossible.

Our deepest fears is not that we are inadequate, . . .

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

We're not without hope; we just haven't been seeing it. We're not without power; we just haven't been claiming it. We're not without love; we just haven't been living it.

Consider the possibility now that anything could happen. I'm not asking you to believe this, but only to consider that it might be true. Simply thinking this thought—that miracles are possible—does more to pave the way for your healing than you can imagine. It opens the door to a realm of infinite possibilities, regardless of what you have been through or what you are going through now. The

are meant to shine. Look at small children. They're all so unique before they start trying to be

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.