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Quotes About Potential

Like many young people, I believe I have potential to make a positive impact in the world.
~ Cameron Russell
Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.
~ Jane Fonda
When I see young people interested in music. I always look out for that passion in their eyes. You never know where that might lead.
~ Aaron Diehl
Few escape our most deprived estates. Few young people with potential escape difficult upbringings. Fewer cross the social divides.
~ Chris Grayling
There is a potential to be a big explosion of what spaceflight is gonna mean to just an everyday person in the near future. I think it's very hopeful for our young people: all the exciting things that they could be doing in the future relative to space and space exploration.
~ Peggy Whitson
Young people are more intelligent and sophisticated.
~ Dianne Wiest
He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer.
~ Benny Green
There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.
~ Ben Carson
I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.
~ John Denver
I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.
~ Billy Higgins
I encourage everyone to become their dream. Most young people get sidetracked and never end up doing what they really set out to do.
~ James De La Vega
It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.
~ Jackie Joyner-Kersee
I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education.
~ Ruben Studdard
A lot of young people have all these aspirations but many of them don't believe they're possible.
~ Tinie Tempah
Young people are this awesome, creative, hopeful untapped resource out there.
~ Nancy Lublin
It always amazes me when I see young people with raw talent and passion.
~ Laura Bell Bundy
As we say at Year Up all the time, investing in our young people is not just a matter of economic justice. It's good business sense.
~ Gerald Chertavian
What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
~ Salman Khurshid
It's important that the adults appreciate that young people are capable of doing really astounding work.
~ Vint Cerf
Our young people - their capacities to think, understand, investigate, and innovate - are America's future.
~ Robert Reich
Nothing is more important for young people than enhancing their life chances, liberating their potential and encouraging their contribution to a globally competitive and modern economy.
~ David Blunkett
I've always been interested in exploring the concept of child prodigies. When I was younger, I wrote a story about Mozart as a child, and I just always loved this idea of young people who are able to take control of their lives and bring a whole lot of change at such a young age.
~ Marie Lu
I have long been a supporter of The Prince's Trust, and so when American Express asked me to launch 'Amex Be Inspired' and help young people build their confidence and fulfil their potential, I was delighted to get involved.
~ Kevin Spacey
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
~ G. M. Trevelyan