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Quotes About Potential

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
~ Henry Miller
Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
~ Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused.
~ Herman Melville
Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
~ Jose Marti
Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.
~ Claudius Claudianus
But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve.
~ Elvis Costello
Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.
~ Felix Schelling
Kids, man. They'll be the ones to take mountain biking to the next level for us. You just watch
~ Gary Fisher
I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.
~ Geoffrey Boycott
A man can't do more than he can - but he can at least do that much.
~ Malcolm Forbes
I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds to.
~ Martha Stewart
Men are just like unlit lamps: in themselves they are no good for anything, but, when lit, they can be handy to have around the house.
~ Moderata Fonte
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.
~ Napoleon Hill
MAN'S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION.
~ Napoleon Hill
A man is more than his failings.
~ Rick Reilly
Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don't follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.
~ Albert Einstein
The more talented a young man is, the earlier the recruiting process usually begins.
~ Billy Kennedy
As proud as I am of Doo-Wops I feel like, 'Oh, man. People haven't seen nothing. They don't even know what I'm about to do,' and that's what I can't wait to show the world.
~ Bruno Mars
Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
~ Matthew Arnold
It is not man's dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.
~ Swami Vivekananda