Quotes About Potential

his life was no longer on some predestined course, but had been diverted by fantastic possibility.

I've watched you these six months becoming a whole different person, someone who is only just beginning to see her possibilities. You have no idea how happy that has made me.

I'm not employed for what I do,' Nathan explained. 'I'm employed for what I can do.

Saber que aún tienes posibilidades es un lujo.

Everything was possible. That was what I had learned, these last few months.

You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are 'not that sort of person.'" "But I'm not." "How do you know? You've done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

God is great and so he planted seeds of greatness in you. God is good so there is goodness in you. God is love so there is love within you.

Truth is what God says about you," answered Mr. Erwin. "Truth is who you truly are. As I told you the other day, you are a child of God. That's truth. You are loved by God. That's truth. You were born with greatness inside of you, to do great things. That's truth. The power within you is more powerful than the circumstances around you. That's truth.

Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.

This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it.

They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?

This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.

Yes, genes explain far more about us than anyone had realized, but the genes themselves often turn out to be sensitive to environmental conditions. And yes, each person has a characteristic level of happiness, but it now looks as though it's not so much a set point as a potential range or probability distribution.

Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal.

It is a crime every time we ask ourselves how smart a person is, instead of asking ourselves what makes that person smart.

For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.

Faith is the defeat of probability by the power of possibility.

I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

You don't think it's unheard of, do you, for apprentices to try too much, too soon? It often marks out those with the most talent. Arthur is livid, but he is also impressed, I can tell. I think you should confide fully in him; throw yourself on his mercy. He will like that.

Proof had this ability to not only nurture my talent, but to see that diamond in the rough when a million people could be looking at the same thing... and just not see it.

You can't change who you are, but you can surely make the best of it. And if you've got a thought, act on it.

The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?... With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?

In the fleeting window of just 24 hours, humanity has witnessed the pinnacle of greatness. Time, the ultimate arbiter of our existence, holds within it the potential for unparalleled achievement. The only obstacle standing in the way of your own greatness lies in the manner in which you choose to allocate this most precious resource.