Quotes About Potential

If a man is not superior to his education, is not larger than his crutches or his helps, if he is not greater than the means of his culture, which are but the sign-boards pointing the way to success, he will never reach greatness. Not

The greatest thing a man can possibly do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other. It

Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on.  Dreams are true while they last, And do not we live in dreams? – TENNYSON.

the flashlight of a potent personality of this kind has opened a rift in our lives and revealed to us hidden capabilities.

Fijarnos limitaciones a nosotros mismos es uno de los pecados capitales de la humanidad.

The world grants all opportunities to him who can use them.

We long for freedom, we want to soar, to try the wings God gave us; yet we are losing our power because we do not, cannot, exercise it. We are wasting life, losing strength in petty pursuits and enslaving drudgery.

No one is mocked with the yearning for that which they have no ability to attain.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.

If he would only burst his self-imposed shackles, get out of himself, break away from the narrow bounds of his sickly, limited thought, he could be a power in the world.

Every child should be taught to expect success, and to believe that he was born to achieve, as the acorn is destined to become an oak. It is cruel for parents and teachers to tell children that they are dull or stupid, or that they are not like others of their age.

We can have little faith in the youth who is always crying out against his condition, and telling an incredulous world what great things he could do if his lot were different.

Where is the man who will save us? We want a man! Don't look so far for this man. You have him at hand. This man—it is you, it is I; it is each one of us!... How to constitute one's self a man? Nothing harder, if one knows not how to will it; nothing easier, if one wills it. —Alexander Dumas.

There is no harder job than parenting. There is no human relationship with such potential for great achievement and awful destructiveness, and despite all the experts who write about it, no one has the slightest idea whether any decision will be right or best or even not-horrible for any particular child. It is a job that simply cannot be done right.

Might-have-beens are a bitch.

You underestimate yourself.

The ambiguity of flesh made for a vastness of possibility that simply could not exist in a binary world.

I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more sense than any other idiotic kid. Somewhere along in here I need to grow up into a man I can stand to live with. A man who doesn't just survive, but deserves to.

There's greatness in him. A magnitude of spirit.

We've just got to face the fact that we're second rate. With the fate of humanity in our hands.

What I understand now is this: There is no harder job than parenting. There is no human relationship with such potential for great achievement and awful destructiveness, and despite all the experts who write about it, no one has the slightest idea whether any decision will be right or best or even not-horrible for any particular child. It is a job that simply cannot be done right.

The clay can become a bear," she said, "but not as long as it rests cold and wet in the riverbank.

talent. Potential. Great potential

teach, I teach, but no one learns. You, too, have great promise, like so many students before you