Quotes About Potential

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Are you doing the kind of work you were built for, so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little?

The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race.

The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming, and what one has in fact become.

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness-and fewer those who have taken that chance.

In danger there is great power.

Speaking of Ted Turner The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.

As both the Mercury and Apollo programs have shown, our science and technology are so powerful that, if an intense effort is made, we can do almost anything we want in say, ten years - provided we are not in conflict with the laws of nature.

I'm in love with the potential of miracles. For me, the safest place is out on a limb.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Everybody is talented, original, and has something important to say.

Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.

A sobering thought: what if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

No one is expected to achieve the impossible.

Who you are is a necessary step to being who you will be.

Success doesn't necessarily make you a happy person ... but without the confidence and security that comes from being totally happy, I believe you cannot achieve your true potential and ultimate success.

They are able because they think they are able.