Quotes About Potential

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

When I look at the future it's so bright it burns my eyes.

Believe in human beings - not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn't mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around.

After 40 years of marriage, isn't it amazing when you can look at your partner sound asleep next to you and still believe they have potential.

If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable

Why does everyone see me as a sink when I am an ocean?

In the heart of every apple is an entire orchard waiting only to be planted.

If you are HUMAN, then the limit of what you can do, what you learn, what you can experience HAS NOT YET BEEN REACHED.

For all our failings. Despite our limitations fallibilities. We humans are capable of greatness.

No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

I know what's within me even if you can't see it yet...I have something more important than courage, I have patience. I will become what I know I am.

I didn't have the patience for the research, or anything like that. I just like how it sets the imagination off. It's just an area that's very fertile for great words. Great metaphors, potentially.

All of life comes in seed form – not as monuments.

If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

In a malleable world where everything from atoms to cells is changing to match our beliefs, we're limited only by the way we think of ourselves in that world.

As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature.

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.