Quotes About Potential

Do you want to be an actress too?' I wondered if she was mocking me. 'I don't know what I want to be,' I said. 'Well, what are you good at?' said Sarah.

Seek the opportunity to swim beyond your own little pond.

she would have been disappointed if he had not demonstrated such idealism, for he was yet to reach twenty-one; youth without optimism, without a strong sense of the possible, would represent a very sad state of affairs.

I do not know if these hands will become Malcolm's—raised and fisted or Martin's—open and asking or James's—curled around a pen. I do not know if these hands will be Rosa's or Ruby's gently gloved and fiercely folded calmly in a lap, on a desk, around a book, ready to change the world . . .

Maybe, I am thinking, there is something hidden like this, in all of us. A small gift from the universe waiting to be discovered.

When fears remain untouched, innate capacities remain undiscovered

Nevertheless we cherish all books, especially the unread ones, for who knows what secrets they might yield one day? —p.397, as by Larry Zagorski, in his short story The City of the Sun

Because a boy who could read would sooner or later come upon some book that would give him an idea, and a boy with an idea could accomplish almost anything.

A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses. -James Allen

The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it— Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. —Goethe

MAN'S mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth.

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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you turn out to be. Your Vision is the promise of what you shall sooner or later be; your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. The finest achievement turned into before everything and for a time a dream. The okaysleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and within the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.

Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth.

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

MAN'S mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.

Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.

Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

As a being of Power, Intelligence, and Love, and the lord of his own thoughts, man holds the key to every situation, and contains within himself that transforming and regenerative agency by which he may make himself what he wills.

Harry Bernstein was a total failure when he wrote his bestselling memoir, The Invisible Wall. His prior forty (forty!) novels had been rejected by publishers. When his memoir came out, he was ninety-three years old. A quote from him: "If I had not lived until I was 90, I would not have been able to write this book, God knows what other potentials lurk in other people, if we could only keep them alive well into their 90s.