Quotes About Potential

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Know thine opportunity.

How many opportunities present themselves to a man without his noticing them?

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.

Opportunity rarely knocks until you are ready. And few people have ever been really ready without receiving opportunity's call.

There is a budding morrow in midnight.

To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.

Everyone has got it in him, if he will only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities. There is no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.

The "C" students run the world.

Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas he sees his picture mentally.... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting, what do you see? ... Is the picture one you think worth painting? ... You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.

A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you. He makes you get more out of yourself. And once you learn how good you really are, you never settle for playing anything less than your very best.

Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution.

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible ... what wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility!

Prospect is often better than possession.

To dream too much of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner that works and brings it out.

Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted.

Each of us has some unique capability waiting for realization. Every person is valuable in his own existence, for himself alone ... each of us can bring to fruition these innate, God-given abilities.

Any talent that we are born with eventually surfaces as a need.

Skills vary with the man. We must... strive by that which is born in us.

Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.