Quotes About Potential

Je crois que l'humanité commence là où les gens sans génie figurent qu'elle s'arrête.

Perfectionism, of course, was something which even as a young man he had come to see as the innermost essence of talent.

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

To be an acorn is to have a taste for being an oak tree. Habitual grace brings with it all the Christian virtues in their seed.

Our sorry idiot life, our idiot existence, idiot not because it has to be but because it is not what it could be with a little more courage and care.

If you are not prepared to undergo the extended toil and sacrifice that some particular endeavor may require, then despite having all the native potential for great success in that endeavor, and with all the doors of opportunity wide open, you can nevertheless become an utter failure.

Top colleges turn out extraordinary graduates because they take in extraordinary freshmen. That tells very little about what happened in the intervening four years, except that it did not ruin these individuals completely. It tells even less about what would have happened if these same extraordinary people had been educated elsewhere. Whether a given individual will do better, either educationally or financially, by going to a bigname college is very doubtful. Hard

You cannot measure opportunities by outcomes.

Una sociedad que puede aprovechar todo tipo de talentos de todos los segmentos de su población tiene obvias ventajas sobre sociedades donde sólo se permite que los talentos de los pocos preseleccionados determinen su destino.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming…. This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it's no longer so. I feel happy—deep down. All is well.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

You're the proverbial diamond in the rough.

you must become more interested in what's possible from here on than you are in rectifying the past, and more invested in how you might midwife this transition harmoniously than in getting what you want in the short term.

the human potential movement, as it encourages us to be undeterred by our current life conditions, to nobly strive toward the possibilities of an abundant and flourishing life, no matter what evidence we might be experiencing to the contrary.

each of us holds at our core a deep desire to become "more of who we really are.

but what about students with exceptional intelligence who could compensate?

Take a plain-Jane rock and polish it, and you'll find a gem.

Anthropos. That's a Greek word. It means to become the best human you can be.

I tell you the truth. The person that believes in me will do the same things I have done. Yes! He will do even greater things than I have done.

My girl, there are three kinds of people in the world: the outstanding, the mediocre, and the truly hopeless.

Perfume should tell a story – the story of who you are, who you might be, perhaps even of who you fear becoming . . .

Over the years Rita had tailored her expectations of life and others accordingly – anticipating the worst at every turn and managing to find the damp, dark potential in any cloudless sky.

Is there anything more haunting than the ambitions of youth?

A young woman on the cusp of her sexual awakening is a powerful creature.' She