Quotes About Potential

If you can run six, you can run 10," he said, noshing on an energy bar. "Run 10 and you can run 13. That's how it works. You have three to four more miles in you than you think.

Life only plants the seeds. It's up to us to help them grow.

An infinite body, according to us, is neither potentially nor actually mobile, neither light nor heavy potentially or actually.

Wherefore he who denieth infinite result denieth also infinite power.

Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor what did not happen but, rather, their potentialization, their becoming possible once again.

The coming being is whatever being.

Deze schat - dat wat nooit geweest is - bergt de idee van het geluk.

Nu exist? în?lÅ£imi de neatins, ci numai aripi prea scurte.

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant. If sensitive, he will become brutish. If rational, he will grow into a heavenly being. If intellectual, he will be an angel and the son of God. And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all.

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

To have no particular aim was to open grand possibilities...

All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.

You are at the same time arrogant and self-loathing. You are a puzzle. But the ancient truth remains: as the light grows dimmer, things begin to become harder to see. I came to love you in time, but I feared the dark side as well. I still do. You have tremendous potential, potential for joy or hate, light or dark, life or death. But in the end, you choose. What a gift, what a joy to witness.

Every child could be an artist. Every child is an artist until a grown-up tells them they're not.

Yes, I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him. Some appear to have it more than others only because they are aware of it more than others are, and the awareness or unawareness of it is what makes each one of them into masters or holds them down to mediocrity.

This is important because so often the path to establishing the confidence and engagement of a young person is through growing their strengths rather than concentrating on what is wrong with them.

Supón que a más niños se les introduzca en el gran almacén del conocimiento acumulado por el hombre cuatro o cinco años antes de lo que se hace ahora. Imagina el resultado si Einstein pudiera haber tenido cinco años más de vida creativa. Imagina lo que podría ocurrir si los niños pudieran empezar a asimilar la sabiduría y el conocimiento del mundo años antes de lo que se les permite ahora.

Bucky solía decir que todos los niños nacen genios y que se pasan los seis primeros años de vida perdiendo su genialidad.

By contrast to the above views, people with self-esteem believe they are neither more or less than human. Knowing their faults and rough edges, they still are deeply and quietly glad to be who they are (Briggs 1977). They are like the good friend who knows you well and likes you anyway because they recognize the goodness, excellence, and potential that coexist alongside imperfections.

People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential,not God

Our current plight is not made inevitable by human nature. What once was could be again—in a new way.

There is a healthier self within each of us, just wating for encouragement