Quotes About Potential

The greatest blizzards start with the finest snow.

A cat can outrace the best thoroughbred horse if only it can grasp the idea of racing.

Nothing is born as strong as it can become.

Bowie is less about trappings and more about the traps that seek to limit human potential.

In kingdom churches, it is not good enough if the pastor and staff get to fulfill their destiny while everyone else watches and applauds. It is time for every believer in every church in the West to reach their full potential and to fulfill their destiny in Christ.

An unread book is a world unexplored

I think a good novel makes the reader think not just about what happened, but about what is possible

Imagination creates its own possibilities.

Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be extraordinary.

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others

Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-etre - I go to seek a great perhaps.

But it seems clear to me that on some level, spirits choose their parents, because these potential parents possess certain traits and values that the soon-to-be child needs to assimilate during his or her lifetime.

The potential biographies of those who die young possess the mystic dignity of a headless statue, the poetry of enigmatic passages in an unfinished or mutilated manuscript, unburdened with contrived or banal endings.

It was realisation, in a moment of time, not only of her own possibilities, far from inconsiderable ones, but also of other possibilities that life might hold; and my chief emotion was surprise.

I had never previously met him, but I had seen him and knew his name well, because he was one of those persons who, from their earliest years, are marked down to do great things; and who so often remain a legend at school, or university, for a period of time after leaving the one or the other: sometimes long after any hope remains, among the world at large, that promise of earlier years will be fulfilled.

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be, precisely determine what we will be.

Action is what unites every great success. Action is what produces results. Knowledge is only potential power until it comes into the hands of someone who knows how to get himself to take effective action. In fact, the literal definition of the word "power" is "the ability to act.

Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power—it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

Leaders are those individuals who live by empowering beliefs and teach others to tap their full capabilities by shifting the beliefs that have been limiting them.

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action." —ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Belief in limits creates limited people.

whatever your favorite investment might be, at some point in your life, you can count on it dropping 50% to 70% in value. While there's unlimited potential for upside in this bucket, never forget that you could lose it all (or at least a significant portion). That's why I call this the Risk/Growth Bucket and not the Growth/Risk Bucket, because growth is not guaranteed, but risk is!

All men dream, but not equally. —T. E. LAWRENCE