Quotes About Potential

Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo

A spark can become a flame, a flame a fire.

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.

Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity. - Tim Ferriss

Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for good the energies of love.

there is no grief more devastating than the grief for what could have been.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

If you don't test your limits, they get harder to reach.

Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.

You've got to think of every talent you have, every gift you could give the world around you. And you've got to take the chance of giving it. (246)

I shook my head at all the things that can happen to break a man as he grows up and away from the pure potential of infancy, all the things that had fractured inside me. And I prayed silently that this infant, born into chaos, might meet with kindness, experience joy and find passion in life. Every one of us ought to be able to count on that much. (308)

Nothing is an end because it always can be a basis for something new and different.

By caring for the soul faithfully, every day, we step out of the way and let our full genius emerge.

God's gift to me is my potential. My gift back to God is what I do with my potential. JOHN C. MAXWELL DEVELOPING THE LEADER WITHIN YOU

To benefit from what the best teachers do, however, we must embrace a different model, one in which teaching occurs only when learning takes place. Most fundamentally, teaching in this conception is creating those conditions in which most--if not all--of our students will realize their potential to learn. That sounds like hard work, and it is a little scary because we don't have complete control over who we are, but it is highly rewarding and obtainable.

Each lifetime had been different, as each choice is always different, unpredictable in its outcome or effect. Yet those choices had to be made, Jeff thought. He'd learned to accept the potential losses, in the hope that they would be outweighed by the gains. The only certain failure, he knew, and the most grievous, would be never to risk at all.

on the one hand faith kids and nature kids and on the other the rest, those you might call, under your breath of course, New Kids? Were these a centimetre taller than others of their age, a glimmer brighter of eye, a syllable more articulate? A step ahead in the race, a pace more sure-footed? A decibel less loud?

We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

All kids have tremendous talents — and we squander them pretty ruthlessly.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Too many feel that what they're good at isn't valued by schools. Too many think they're not good at anything.

What we think of ourselves and of the world makes us who we are and what we can be.

The Element is the meeting point between natural aptitude and personal passion.

Many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of. Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface.