Quotes About Potential

One of the greatest of all principles is that men can do what they think they can do.

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.

Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.

There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.

Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that man can think is impossible. Nothing that man can imagine is impossible of realization.

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.

There's place and means for every man alive.

All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.

I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.

For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence.

The 'still, small voice' of God never calls on me to be like another man. It appeals to me to rise to my full stature and fulfill the promise that sleeps within my being.

Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.

Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.

There is no end to the power a man can obtain.

No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.

A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.