Quotes About Potential

I hate it not so much on my own account, for I have learned at last not to let it balk me. But I hate it because of the potentially shining, gentle, gifted people of all ages, that it snuffs out every year. It is a murderer of talent.

everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

No man can discover his own talents.

All our actions—eating, drinking, sleeping, working—are thus potentially Christ's actions. But this potential must be actualized. Instead of a mindless drifting through the insignificant, apparently superficial and nonreligious events of the day, our passive union with Christ can be made active by creative acts of the will, intelligence and imagination.

On one level, a roomful of men is always a dangerous thing. Competition is usually in the air, so the potential for violence is always nearby.

Some day. The most hopeful phrase in man's language, the most promising in his thoughts, the most unfulfilled.

Mitä voikaan tapahtua maailmassa, jossa kaiken väitetään olevan mahdollista?

But dreams can be of value even if you don't have an opportunity to turn them into reality.

Träume können ihren Wert haben, selbst wenn man sie nicht verwirklichen kann.

Whatever happens to me in life, I must believe that somewhere, In the mess or madness of it all, There is a sacred potential—

Nuclear man is a man who has lost naïve faith in the possibilities of technology and is painfully aware that the same powers that enable man to create new life styles carry the potential for self-destruction.

Every person is different and has a different contribution to make. No one is destined to fail.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.

I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Non conosco nulla di più incoraggiante dell'incontestabile capacità dell'uomo di elevare la propria vita con uno sforzo cosciente.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried. Whatever have been thy failures hitherto, "be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to thee what thou hast left undone?

Though I don't believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there and I am prepared to expect wonders.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried.

London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

Living as he now lived was like reading a good book in a poor translation – a meagre entertainment for a young man who felt that he might have been an excellent linguist. He

I never was what I should be.

Chiamo ricca la gente ch'è in grado di realizzare gl'impulsi della propria immaginazione.

The world lay before her—she could do whatever she chose. There was a deep thrill in it all, but for the present her choice was tolerably discreet […].