Quotes About Potential

No one knows the powers that are latent in his constitution. Called forth by imminent dangers, our efforts frequently exceed our most sanguine belief.

Almost everyone is born a genius and buried an idiot.

When the air balloon was first discovered, some one flippantly asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it. The doctor answered this question by asking another: "What is the use of a new-born infant? It may become a man

Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind

Fourier believed the world would eventually contain thirty-seven million poets equal to Homer, thirty-seven million mathematicians equal to Newton, and thirty-seven million dramatists equal to Molière—although, he admitted, these were only "approximate estimates.

There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them.

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.

I am like one who died young. All my life might have been.

And I wondered when I peeped into one or two on the lower tiers, and saw the tied-up brown paper packets inside, whether the flower-seeds and bulbs ever wanted of a fine day to break out of those jails, and bloom.

we had everything before us,

Maldito seas! A fe que merece simpatía el hombre que me demuestra lo que yo podría haber sido y no soy.

Don't be afraid to hear me. Don't shrink from anything I say. I am like one who died young: all my life might have been.

It only shows how true the old saying is, that a man never knows what he can do till he tries, gentlemen. From "Pickwick Papers" ch. 49 page 646

Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has Great Expectations.

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished; and

It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished.

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.