Quotes About Potential

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.

Talent is something rare and beautiful and precious, and it must not be allowed to go to waste.

Sin is the failure to reach your potential," he wrote. "Guilt is the unlived life.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

young—never settle for less than the spiritual and moral grandeur of which you're capable, with the help of God's grace.

Like a woman, possibility makes demands, makes a person go all the way.

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

The demonstration starts by filling the two beakers almost to their brims with water and then placing them side-by-side, lips touching. An electrode immersed in each beaker imposes a potential difference on the order of 10 kV.

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

Until you opened it, the book was nothing that an untrained eye would look twice at.

She closed her eyes for a moment and then opened them and gazed at me. 'I wonder if you know how you have changed. It is the one good, perhaps, to come out of this terrible year. Oh, the spark was clear in you when you first came to me - but you covered your light as if you were afraid of what would happen if anybody saw it. You were like a flame blown by the wind until it is almost extinguished. All I had to do was put the glass around you. And now, how you shine!

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist.

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.

Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.

Each person on this planet is inherently, intrinsically capable of attaining "dizzying heights" of happiness and fulfillment.

Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm, or one of those dull days with no weather at all, life begins each morning! ... Each morning is the open door to a new world-new vistas, new aims, new tryings.

Great opportunities come to all, but many do not know they have met them. The only preparation to take advantage of them is ... to watch what each day brings.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Great opportunities come to all, but many do not know they have met them. The only preparation to take advantage of them is simple fidelity to watch what each day brings.

Opportunities are everywhere.