Quotes About Potential

Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.

Banality is a terribly likely consequence of the underuse of a good mind.

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting to change all the tenor of our lives.

I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment, my life changed.

There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Your children are not dead. They are just waiting until the world deserves them.

Books ... rarely, if ever, talk about what children can make of themselves, about the powers that from the day or moment of birth are present in every child.

We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.

Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or triple our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved.

Every crowd has a silver lining.

No one knows what he can to do until he tries.

Energy, even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed, will move mountains.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

We are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.

The present is great with the future

We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.

Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?