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Quotes About Potential

Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.
~ Robert E. Howard
Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.
~ Kofi Annan
Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine, or to 'image forth'.
~ Dane Rudhyar
I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
~ Arthur Balfour
A man should be what he can do.
~ Montgomery Clift
Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.
~ Teresa of Avila
I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.
~ Leonard Bernstein
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.
~ Andrew Carnegie
The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his.
~ Mitch Albom
On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life.
~ Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
If the mind of man can believe, the mind of man can achieve.
~ Napoleon Hill
Every man or woman is a potential poet or artist. Everyone has the capacity to bring to their work the dignity, purposefulness, and presence of the artist.
~ Laurence Boldt
A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
~ Victoria Woodhull
A man who knows not his limitations is of no use to anyone.
~ W. Edwards Deming
I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him.
~ Walter Russell
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
~ Jonathan Swift
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to it himself.
~ A. H. Weiler
For me, it's interesting because I never thought of myself as an action man, but apparently I can do it, so that's good to know.
~ Jamie Campbell Bower
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
~ John F. Kennedy
Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being, and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so would the average lawyer.
~ Gracie Allen