Quotes About Potential

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.

I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.

Man is an ape with possibilities.

Oh, the secret life of man and woman--dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.

Some men see what is, and ask 'Why?' I see what might be, and ask 'Why Not?'

Let us all be men and women in full. Let us expect from ourselves more than we think we can give, more than we think we can do and more than we think we already know.

Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives.

Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.

You must learn to see men and women...as perfect beings advancing to become complete.

A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

No man can discover his own talents.

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.

Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

For a man not to achieve the things he has an opportunity to do is such a waste of life.