Quotes About Potential

Empirical" knowledge itself is of little benefit unless it awakens the inner perception of man as to his own situation, his potentialities, his risks, and his destiny

At any given moment I think a plant is about to be born in some corner of me. Aware of something strange going on, I begin to watch for it, sensing that it may have artistic promise. I would be happy if the idea weren't a complete loss. But I can only watch and wait, indefinitely. I don't know how to nurture the plant or make it bloom. All I have is the feeling or hope that it will grow leaves of poetry or of something that could become poetry when seen by certain eyes.

This was her special time, this early part of the day when the sun was just about to creep over the horizon. It was a brand new day in which anything could happen.

A culture is a civilization that has not yet achieved maturity, its greatest potential, nor consolidated its growth. Meanwhile--and the waiting period can be protracted--adjacent civilizations exploit it in a thousand ways, which is natural if not particularly just.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.

Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

No queremos que nos encasillen en una de nuestras facetas, sobre todo si es de las peores. Queremos que nos den la oportunidad de demostrar que no nos correspondemos con lo que hicimos durante un día malo, que somos capaces de cosas mejores.

Already the messages of citizens were flashed along the wires of the world. . . . To those multitudes, not as yet in the wombs of humanity but surely engenderable there, he would give the word: Man and woman, out of you comes the nation that is to come, the lightening of your masses in travail.

to deny someone an education is not just a crime but a sin, because you are denying that person the opportunity to realize who he or she is meant to be.

If I had one son and one daughter and could only educate one of them, I would educate my daughter. You know why? A girl without an education has no power; she is always at the mercy of others.

Self-belief cannot be manufactured through obsessive yearning toward one's goals or through the elimination of all "distractions." In fact, it requires the opposite: an empty mind and total immersion in the process that builds the proof of potential that is the only solid foundation for true self-belief.

You know, he was very honest about it. He said, 'What you do not use, you lose. These computers have so much potential, but they will ruin people's brains.' He said, 'Swami, you will live to see it in the next century. I will not be here.

Do you know what it means to have a whole day ahead of you, a day you can call your own?

Ignite the mind's spark to rise the sun in you

What God has done for others He can do for me and more!

All things are possible here and now. I now attain the seemingly unattainable.

The controversial overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.

Conheço muitos que não puderam quando deviam porque não quiseram quando podiam.

Little opportunities should be improved.

At the most embryonic state, the tendency toward the fullness of actualization is already latent.

There is always hope. There are always chances.

At your age, you are still asking yourself: Who should I be? I must ask myself: Did I manage to be the person I wanted to be, in the end? And how many chances do I have left to be that person?