Quotes About Potential

Words Have The Power To Change Us

Everyone has the potential to be extraordinary. As long as you have a soul and free will, you can be anything, do anything, choose anything.

Because the world isn't divided into the special and the ordinary. Everyone has the potential to be extra ordinary.

Beyond every effort put first, lies an undiscovered opportunity.

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

it with the eye of an interior decorator, and there were possibilities everywhere she looked. She moved

And if I didn't, I'd spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I'd had the guts to try.

It is necessary, then, to give the child the possibility of developing according to the laws of his nature, so that he can become strong, and, having become strong, can do even more than we dared hope for him. —Maria Montessori

Many people have so much more potential than where they are right now.

Sometimes, people use age as a convenient excuse. Other people, though, go on to acheive their greatest accomplishments in life in later years.

The most important thing I can add from my own observations is this: knowing it started from unremarkable circumstances should be a comfort to us all. Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.

I suppose we're built with complete free will, and as much as we're capable of depravity, to the same degree we are wired for greatness. Everyone gets to choose, I think. And my challenge is to decide where I'll place the bulk of my attention. What I'll most believe in.

You have a decent brain, you just keep it in mothballs all the time." "You

You never know. In a world like this, you never know what's possible. So I figure, don't say it's possible, because you don't know. But, then again, don't say it's not possible. Because you don't know that, either.

There is water within our reach. We only have to reach for it.

If we truly are created in God's image, we must know God in order to fully know ourselves and who we can be. God has equipped human beings to begin that quest very early,

The church has a greater potential than any other institution for providing the community so desperately needed by persons of all ages; it is the means God designed to provide support and resources for life's journey.

When we give children opportunity to meet God, we are not attempting to force something unnatural on them. Children are born with the potential for spiritual experience, and God is the one who stimulates the activation of that potential.

That's just the first part. What others call you, you become. It's a terrible magic that everyone can do — so do it. Call yourself what you wish to become.

I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening, contains everything. Every possibility, both perfect and putrid. Surely such mysteries are the most enticing things You grant us in this mortal mere -- the fruit in the garden, too, was like this. Unknown, and therefore infinite. Eve and her mate swallowed eternity, every possible thing, and made the world between them.

The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.

Catherynne M. Valente

When a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening, contains everything. Every possibility, both perfect and putrid. Surely such mysteries are the most enticing things...grant[ed] us in this mortal mere...Unknown and therefore infinite.

For when a box is shut, you cannot tell what it might contain, so you might as well say it contains everything, because, really, it could contain anything, see? But when you open it, you affect what is inside. Observing something changes it, that's a law, nothing to be done.