Quotes About Potential

Even a monkey could shovel up the sand if it just had a little practice. I should be able to do a lot more than that. A man has the obligation to make full use of the abilities he has

Manchmal, sagte sie, gehen zwei Menschen aneinander vorbei, sehen sich kurz in die Augen, und alles, was bleibt, ist ein Wunsch. Ein Traum von dem, was hätte geschehen können. Und dann gehen sie mit jedem Schritt weiter voneinander fort und von all ihren Träumen.

How can I—how can an insignificant little dewdrop on the grass ever aspire to the sun? How would it ever come to pass?" "Indeed; there's no comparing them, after all. But the dewdrop does capture the vast, seething ball of fire within itself, doesn't it?

The sisters' acquaintance Madam Nell Kimball recalled the sage advice of her aunt Letty, a retired courtesan: "Every girl, if only she knew it, is sitting on her fortune.

The new Sufi tariqahs founded at this time stressed the unlimited potential of human life. Sufis could experience on the spiritual plane what the Mongols had so nearly achieved in terrestrial politics

I am now satisfied of what I always though--which is how much more women can do if they set about it then men. I will lay any bet that had you been here, you would not have got half as much on board as I have.

You don't really believe in nothing, do you? I believe in possibilities...

You've got what it takes, Billie Jo. Look at the size of those hands, he'd say. Look at how tall.

Mental seduction. He'd never thought it possible

She had felt capable of anything.

This was the beginning of something that might lead to everything or nothing at all. To

This was the beginning of something that might lead to everything or nothing at all.

All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination. And this one is Teddy's.

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.

What man has done, man can aspire to do.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.

The man who will whip me will be fast, strong and hasn't been born yet.

The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.

Man's brain may be compared to an electric battery...a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery.