Quotes About Potential

It's a lot easier, she realised, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.

Gay men know a lot more about sexual responsiveness, and the erotic potential of their bodies, particularly of their nipples and assholes, than straight men.

In his continued forecasts of the potential German air strength, Churchill has often been accused of exaggeration.

But what is great can only begin great.

As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.

Space, time and context all impose limits on what is possible.

We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

When I hear, "People aren't ready," that's like telling a person who is trying to swim, "Don't jump in that water until you learn how to swim." When actually you will never learn how to swim until you get in the water.

Once you start believing in yourself, anything is possible. Once you start believing in yourself, your dreams take shape. The more you believe, the more you achieve.

But there's a big difference between "impossible" and "hard to imagine." The first is about it; the second is about you!

We can always do anything as long as we are alive. We can always change, grow, evolve into a far better version of ourselves. It is surely what life is for.

There is no such place as the promised land, but it would be foolish to reject even an unpromised land as worthless without first inspecting it thoroughly.

If we were to see the grandeur of our real selves, I suspect we would also see the necessity of living up to who we really are. And most of us are too lazy for that. Or else we are having too good a time enjoying our less than perfect lives to be bothered. (Claudia Martin)

May intelligent, bookish ladies sometimes be reformed? he asked her. She thought about it. I suppose it may be within the bounds of possibility, she said, even if not of probability.

a pearl probably does not look so very remarkable either while it is still hidden inside its shell.

What is the use of having powers, doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them?

em geral você subestimou suas próprias aptidões. É possível que você não seja em si mesmo luminoso, mas é um condutor de luz. Algumas pessoas, sem possuir gênio, têm o notável poder de estimulá-lo.

En enkelt gang er De sunket dybt. Lad nu fremtiden vise, hvor højt De kan nå op.

La mediocridad no conoce nada más allá de ella, pero el talento instantáneamente reconoce a los genios.

Pumpkin was a girl who looked as if she could grow fat quickly, given the chance.

That, darling, is the only thing that counts for someone to see more in you than you ever imagined was there.

Als iemand iets moois ziet, denkt hij dat het af is. Dat stelt hem tevreden. Hij kijkt niet verder. Hij gaat er niet mee aan de slag. Hij durft er niet aan te slijpen, zodat wij nooit zullen weten wat er allemaal nog onder de oppervlakte zit. Die hele onzichtbare rijkdom zal nooit worden aangeboord.

Every decision is like a murder, and our march forward is over the stillborn bodies of all our possible selves that will never be.