Quotes About Potential

All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.

What is impossible with man is child's play with God.

You can become anything you want to be ... It's a matter of authority. Whatever a man's confidence, that's his capacity.

One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

Every man is a door; when the door is closed, just search for the key gently! Remember that every door has a key!

If man can fly, it won't be something extraordinary! But if man can become immortal, now that will be extraordinary!

Physically, man is a dwarf; mentally, man is a giant!

A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places; they can never soar up to those unrivalled heights.

Any man's greatness is a tribute to the nobility of all mankind, so when we celebrate the genius of [Leo] Tolstoy, we say, "Look! One of our boys made it! Look what we're capable of!"

Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.

Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds.

Greatest sin of man kind: neglect to use his greatest asset.

It has been said that man can create anything which he can imagine.

Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.

Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.

Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.

A boy is the only known substance from which a man can be made.

If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.

Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.