Quotes About Potential

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

Your world is as big as you make it.

Giving is the highest expression of potency.

Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use.

Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.

Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society. Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained and efficient forces.

A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

First, teach a person to develop to the point of his limitations and then- pfft!-break the limitations.

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.

I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important, and with that in mind I regard everyone as special.

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.

With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris into a bottle.

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done-then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

Could you imagine if we could leapfrog language and communicate directly with human thought? What would we be capable of then? And how will we learn to deal with the truths of unfiltered human thought? You think the Internet was big. These are huge questions.

You never know what you can do till you try.