Quotes About Potential

The bourgeois, however, is tolerant. His love of people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.

To make one half the human race consume its energies in the functions of housekeeper, wife and mother is a monstrous waste of the most precious material God ever made.

All the resources we need are in the mind.

We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he renders service.

Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

Successful low-hanging fruit results will be clear, compelling, and, potentially, paradigm shifting.

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The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.

A capacity as such is directed to an act. Wherefore we seek to know the nature of a capacity from the act to which it is directed, and consequently the nature of a capacity is diversified as the nature of the act is diversified.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Bob thought that perhaps there was opportunity on the boundary between being awake and asleep.

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.

Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

If a company is not doing well, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is not a good company.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Being gifted needs courage.