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Quotes About Potential

Spirituality' is a word that, in broad terms, stands for lifestyles and practices that embody a vision of human existence and of how the human spirit is to achieve its full potential. In that sense, 'spirituality' embraces an aspirational approach, whether religious or secular, to the meaning and conduct of human life.
~ Philip Sheldrake
This is important: he sees me in a certain way, a way he will never deviate from. In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become.
~ Philippe Besson
En fin de compte, l'amour n'a été possible que parce qu'il m'a vu non pas tel que j'étais, mais tel que j'allais devenir.
~ Philippe Besson
In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become.
~ Philippe Besson
I know that what I've written has probably given the impression that I was a haughty young boy, a bit too delicate for the world (and no doubt I was, at least in part). But looking back on it, I think it was simply a fear of crowds, their movements, the inherent potential to transform into a mob, that pushed me toward this misanthropy.
~ Philippe Besson
C'est important : il me regarde d'une certaine manière et n'en déviera pas. En fin de compte, l'amour n'a été possible que parce qu'il m'a non pas tel que j'étais, mais tel que j'allais devenir.
~ Philippe Besson
Limits exist only in the souls of those who do not dream.
~ Philippe Petit
Believe in the miracles that exist around you, inside others, in you. Go look for them. Feed your imagination. In this way, build your destiny.
~ Philippe Petit
A young person still thinks it is possible–there is time enough–to become all things: athlete and aesthete, soldier and pacifist, anchorite and debauchee.
~ Phillip Lopate
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
~ Phillips Brooks
We feel the thing we ought to be beating beneath the thing we are.
~ Phillips Brooks
Every crowd has a silver lining.
~ Phineas Taylor Barnum
What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.
~ Phylicia Rashad
Božanskost je navzo?a v vsakem ?loveku, in ?e so razmere ugodne, se bo sama od sebe manifestirala prav tako, kakor skali seme, v katerem se skriva življenje, in zaradi svoje narave zraste v drevo, ?e ima omogo?ene razmere za razvijanje svojih zmožnosti.
~ Phyllis Krystal
Everything we are given or learn or possess in any real sense - - the ability to play Beethoven sonata, write books, understand the principles of physics – is intended for one thing: to draw us closer to our selves.
~ Phyllis Theroux
man's place in the universe is somewhere between the beasts and the angels, but, because of the divine image planted in him, there are no limits to what man can accomplish....
~ Pico Della Mirandola
You [Mankind] have been given no particular function. You may give your life whatever form you choose, do whatever you wish … you have no limitations, and can act in accord with your own free will. You alone can choose the limits of your nature.
~ Pico Della Mirandola
You can lower yourselves to the level of the beast, but you can also be reborn as a divine creature by the free will of your spirit. Man can become what he likes - subhuman or superhuman, as he wishes.
~ Pico Della Mirandola
How often – even before we began – have we declared a task "impossible"? And how often have we construed a picture of ourselves as being inadequate? . . . A great deal depends upon the thought patterns we choose and on the persistence with which we affirm them.
~ Piero Ferrucci
The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.
~ Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real.
~ James Rouse
When I was 20 and 30, my visions for what the world would be, all things were possible.
~ Harry Belafonte
At 18, I could have not been here. I could have been another statistic. All the odds were in favour of my just going to prison at that age. I had no visions of being a superstar.
~ Big Narstie
The first time I ever visited L.A., I wanted to move here. It's the land of opportunity.
~ Cordae