Quotes About Potential

To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.

Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is.

Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.

Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.

Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.

Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

We are not men, but promises of men.

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a fair chance to develop all the talents they may have.

It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away.

I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.

For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.

The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.

Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.

Mom is always saying I'm a smart kid, but that I just don't apply myself.

Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.

We are not limited by money, but rather by the poverty of our own dreams.

I do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world.