Quotes About Potential

America is big enough to accommodate all their dreams.

At the end of the day, the circumstances of your life-- what you look like,where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home--none of that is an excuse... where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No ones written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write you own destiny.You make your own future.

Every single one of you has something you're good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That's the opportunity an education can provide.

This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change.

You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want. It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!

The conviction that racism wasn't inevitable may also explain my willingness to defend the American idea: what the country was, and what it could become.

este libro es para esos jóvenes: una invitación a rehacer el mundo una vez más, y hacer realidad, a base de esfuerzo, determinación y una gran dosis de imaginación, unos Estados Unidos que por fin reflejen todo lo mejor que llevamos dentro.

It was the sort of change that's important not because it alters your concrete circumstances in some way (wealth, security, fame) but because it hints at what might be possible and therefore spurs you on, beyond the immediate exhilaration, beyond any subsequent disappointments, to retrieve that thing that you once, ever so briefly, held in your hand.

Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted in one moment, would you capture it? Or just let it slip …");

I'd had a chance to meet many Dreamers, both before and after I entered the White House. They were smart, poised, and resilient—as full of potential as my own daughters. If anything, I found the Dreamers to be less cynical about America than many of their native-born contemporaries—precisely because their circumstances had taught them not to take life in this country for granted.

Bobby Kennedy: no era tanto lo que hacía sino lo que te hacía sentir. Que todo era posible.

colors—that we could transcend the old logic, that we

don't live a smaller life than you deserve.

She said 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.

In the beginning, in a time that was no time, nothing existed but the Womb. And the Womb was a limitless dark cauldron of all things in potential: a chaotic blood-soup of matter and energy, fluid as water yet mud-solid with salts of the earth, red-hot as fire yet relentlessly churning and bubbling with all the winds. And the Womb was the Mother, before She took form and gave form to Existence. She was the Deep.

Things in the margins, including humans who wander there, are often on the brink of becoming something else, or someone else.

It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.

When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven

Looking out on a clean plank of planet earth, we can get shaken right down to the bone by the bronze-eyed possibility of lives that are not our own.

Boys aren't a thing but just little men still learning what to aim at.

When you're given a brilliant child, you polish her and let her shine.

There he'd found the pasteboard notebook: the most beautiful book ever, it could become anything.

When you think you have made a mistake, think of it as an opportunity to make something beautiful!

meteoroid had hit with such force it melted the ground around it, making it look like foundry slag. The heat turned quartz intrusions in the bedrock into chunks of colored glass. The Dry Valleys We went on like this for hours, as though there was no being done with the astonishment landscapes might offer us, or to the potential for any seemingly inconsequential thing out there to startle and inform, or