Quotes About Potential

We know by experience that a nation may suddenly blaze out into a splendor of productive genius, of which its previous history gave but faint promise, and of which its subsequent history shows but little trace.

Man himself is not a finished creation; if he were, God would not Be.

Well, gold contains all things in embryo; gold realizes all things for us.

People look so beautiful when their expressions show that they know they have a future.

Matter matters to God. The most ordinary things are drenched in divine possibility. Pronouncing blessings upon them is the least we can do.

A baby is a blank cheque made payable to the human race.

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

the word never represents all the doors we keep closed, that when we say never we close ourselves off from the hope that things can ever be different.

It is not the easy or convenient life for which I search, but life lived to the edge of all that I may be." — Mary Anne Radmacher

Falling short of self-destructive, her apathy toward the potential hazard was, given her internal upheaval, not unusual. Only later would she look back on her attitude as irresponsible; only later would she understand that she must have wanted something, anything to happen, to prove to herself that some part of her was still alive.

Life through a child's eye has to be supersized to hold the huge wealth of possibility she sees.

Don't think about the problems. Think about the possibilities. This could be the beginning of something amazing.

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I wanted to smell the guitars. It's hard to explain but they have a smell. And the best way I could ever describe it would be to say they smell like potential. Ambition and desire. If such things had a smell.

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

Most of our children are not prodigies, or even particularly gifted in any one field, but they all have the potential to shine as individuals in some way if given the right conditions.

The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.

By working with you, it is our intention to offer you a reminder of who you are so that you can find the greatest source for your own inspiration. If we could assign a career to each of you or give you a way of being, we would ask each of you to become an inspiration. When you are able to live in this capacity and to be truly an inspiration to all who encounter you, you will be living your light, and that is quite profound.

Multiple layers of purpose are always involved in any event, and the greater number of people engaged, the more energy generated. Participation, by thought, word, or deed, strengthens a thought-form with the potential to energetically alter the course of human consciousness in any direction. The emotional intensity behind the thought-form determines the outcome.

Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few.

If you bring forth what's inside you, what's inside you will strengthen you. If you don't bring forth what's inside you, what's inside you will destroy you.

He doesn't need to be fixed," Lockie said. "You can't look at it that way. It's a process of discovery, of letting Kyffhäuser develop into the athlete he wants to be and can be. It's nothing that can be rushed. He got to this point because he was pushed every step of the way. That training has to be undone for him before he can make progress.

But at least it made one realize that life still held infinite possibilities for change.

It was only sometimes, when a spring day came in the middle of winter, that one had a sudden feeling that nothing was really impossible.