Quotes About Potential

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.

Mind, brain, and body make the man, and the man is capable of so much!

All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

One of the greatest tasks of my life has been to teach the colored man he can be anything.

Every man is born with the ability to do something well. This is what the Lord intended him to do. Using that ability - what life is all about.

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.

A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with For the betterment of Man, understand, You ain't nothing but a waste.

I expect it is very possible that I would make as good a President as a great many men who are talked of for that position.

The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

To the man of faith, there is not a thing that is not opportunity.

You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.

I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.

Inexperience is what makes a young man do what an older man says is impossible.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.

Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.