Quotes About Potential

You'll never know the kind of person you could be until you take that first step, all alone, into the great unknown. Very few take the step.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

A human being is like a seed. Either you can keep it as it is, or you can make it grow into a wonderful tree with flowers and fruits.

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree.

Desire may be compared to a minute seed. It is like a big banyan tree growing out of a seed, which is no bigger than a dot.

The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God.

The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

Just as the acorn contains the mighty oak tree, the Self has everything it needs to fulfill its destiny. When the inner conditions are right, it naturally emerges.

I try to grow like a tree, and hope that I can reach my full potential by the end of this short life. Change is good but growth is better.

See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings.

Our lives are merely trees of possibilities.

"What is a human being, then?" "A seed." "A... seed?" "An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.

The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout.

Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch, every twig, every leaf is a possible future.

What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive.

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.

A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot.

I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.

A tree is no more valuable than a seed. Both are simply at a different stage in their development.

Where the world only sees a seed, an optimist sees a tree.

Tall oaks from little acorns grow.

God doesn't need a lot to do a lot. All David had was five stones. And all David used was one.