Quotes About Potential

As a young man God blessed me with a special talent to throw a football.

Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

I dream of a time when the people will retake their airways and use them to achieve a voice to rediscover democracy, and to see the divine potential of man.

Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

[E]very man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential - unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or birth or income.

The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Every man should be capable of all ideas.

Man's mind and spirit grow with the space in which they are allowed to operate.

All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes.

All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise.

We do not need men and women from other planets to develop India. Our people, our youth are skilled.

Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.

He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.

A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.