Quotes About Potential

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Don't shoot for something unattainable - completely outside of your nature or opportunity.

My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.

I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything.

One of the most powerful forces in human nature is our belief that change is possible.

Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.

Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities.

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him.

You have to choose to manifest your leadership nature.

It is as though nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

No matter who you are, you have the nature and capacity for leadership.

It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.

Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.

Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us.

Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve.

All babies are Buddha babies.

It's strange because a lot of people are like, 'You can't change human nature-people are inherently negative.' I don't think that's true. If you expect the best from people, they'll step up.

All perfection is there already in the soul. But this perfection has been covered up by nature; layer after layer of nature is covering this purity of the soul.

All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.