Quotes About Potential

There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.

Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.

Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.

Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.

So much one man can do that does both act and know.

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.

Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are filled with just as much potential as any man.

The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open.

There was a man who was worthless, and knew he was worthless, and yet however far down he tried to sink his soul, there was always some part of him capable of great action.

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

Man's worst tragedy in life is his failure to reach his greatest potential

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.

The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.

I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?

Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.