Quotes About Potential

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

Know what you want in life and go after it. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

It's a curse, you know, to be able to look higher than you're allowed to reach.

Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.

The world you desire can be won. It exists...it is real...it is possible...it's yours.

He looked at the granite. To be cut, he thought, and made into walls. He looked at a tree. To be split and made into rafters. He looked at a streak of rust on the stone and thought of iron ore under the ground. To be melted and to emerge as girders against the sky. These rocks, he thought, are waiting for me; waiting for the drill, the dynamite and my voice; waiting to be split, ripped, pounded, reborn; waiting for the shape my hands will give them.

there's something in me that knows of a life I've never lived, the kind of a life no one has ever lived, but should." "You know it? Why don't you live it?

she had always looked for sparks of competence, like a diamond prospector in an unpromising wasteland.

There are no limits to what you can believe!

Begin now to be what you will be hereafter.

Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

What good were these experiments?" went the skeptic's question. To which Franklin replied, "What good is a new-born babe?" In some versions he continued: "He may be an imbecile, or a man of great intelligence. Let us wait for him to complete his studies before judging him.

Nie ?a?uj, nigdy nie ?a?uj, ?e mog?e? co? zrobi? w ?yciu, a tego nie zrobi?e?. Nie zrobi?e?, bo nie mog?e?.

la idea de anunciar la poesía de Shakespeare mil años antes de su nacimiento carece de sentido. Pues el autor podía no haber nacido, haber fallecido en la infancia, haber vivido de otra manera y, por tanto, escribir de otra forma; sin embargo, el habla inglesa preveía la existencia misma de la poesía inglesa.

Quien crece, nunca sabe de antemano si se adentra en un saco, en un túnel, o si penetra, sin posibilidad de retorno, en una zona de silencio; o si, en cambio, emergerá de ella aún más poderoso.

Dream. You have permission to dream. And besides, if you don't have a dream, how can you have a dream come true?

A lumbering soul but trying to fly...

Another life could have happened to us. I know you know that. But here we are, still a flame held close to untouched lips. And I'll write a dozen different endings before I'm done.

Impossible means nothing to me. It's an illusion designed to weed out the weak from the strong.

What lies ahead is revealed to us through our being confronted with possibilities. Our possibilities, however, are not unconditional and infinite but are limited by the structure of our actual existence.

It is as if we are all embedded in a vast graph of possibilities, a graph with an axis marked time, for our own future destiny, and an axis marked space, for the possibilities of the universe.

My heart weighs heavy from all of the books I have not yet written

As long as she had that light, there would always be a chance.