Quotes About Potential

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

No man is obliged to be what he might have been.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.

We have not yet seen what man can make of man.

It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, 'progress' would become mechanical and trivial.

Man, I think the sky is the limit for this team.

I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.'

A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?

The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.

There is a giant asleep within every man. When that giant awakes, miracles happen.

But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?

Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

Faith in our own talent is the gravity, the force that keeps us in orbit around the potential of our own passions and ideas, even when we are temporarily marooned on the dark side of the moon.

One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity—not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification of the range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals.

In the sky an infinitude of hope, a canvas of glory all possibilities mine.