Quotes About Potential

There is a potential heroine in every woman.

Christabel Pankhurst

I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.

Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. ... Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can!

Many people who wonder why they don't amount to more than they do have good stuff in them, and are energetic, persevering, and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless branches and throwing the whole force of power into the development of something that counts.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

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

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.

Don't worry if your "you" is small and your rewards are few: Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you.

I have been nothing ... but there is tomorrow.

The future is a great land.

The possibilities for tomorrow are usually beyond our expectations.

The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.

No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

In America, any boy may become president, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that... absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not one jot. The possibility is always there.

No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.