Quotes About Potential

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.

if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it'll spread over into the rest of your life. It'll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.

Using no way as way. Having no limitation as your only limitation.

Use no way as way, make no limitation, limitation.

If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in my intelligence was elsewhere.

One problem with the way the educational system is set up is that it only recognizes a certain type of intelligence, and it's incredibly restrictive - very, very restrictive. There's so many types of intelligence, and people who would be at their best outside of that structure get lost.

We," he intoned, "are the opportunity that recognizes itself.

Hoover viewed the Dillinger case as a potential quagmire and long resisted being drawn into it.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, ofen well beyond any latent ability you may have previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, the body is simply the means it uses to run faster or longer, jump higher, shoot straighter, kick better, swim harder, hit further, or box better.

If I've got a swing, I've got a shot.

Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.

The spark once transmitted may smoulder for generations under ashes, but the appointed time will come, and it will flare up to warm the world. God never allows waste. And we fools rub our eyes and wonder, when we see genius come out of the gutter. It didn't begin there. We tell ourselves that Shakespeare was the son of a woolpedlar, and Napoleon of a farmer, and Luther of a peasant, and we hold up our hands at the marvel. But who knows what kings and prophets they had in their ancestry!

There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.

Every child is born a genius.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

I could've been a contender. I could've had class and been somebody. Real class. Instead of a bum, let's face it, which is what I am.

You don't understand. I could have had class. I could have been a contender.

He is able who thinks he is able.

D'ye mark him, Flask? whispered Stubb; the chick that's in him pecks the shell. 'Twill soon be out.

Want a partner who can make you feel secure and loved, so you can reach your full potential. Someone who can inspire you and encourage you to try again if things don't work out. Someone who loves you for who you are, not who you might turn into, or who you once were.