Quotes About Potential

You may not have been born into success, but you were born to succeed.

the seed has in it the leaf and the flower and the fruit. But the fulfillment of the purpose of that seed is that it is put in the ground, that it is watered, that a seedling springs up and is reared by the sun; it brings forth its flowers and fruits. This is the fulfillment of that seed which already contained in itself the fruit and the flower.

Don't be silly. Everyone's an artist. You probably just haven't found your medium yet.

Anything to evade the life not lived, the poem not written, the love not realized.

Truly believing that my ideas and words have a right to be taken seriously. And if I believed enough in my talents years ago to own them, who knows what I could've created?

there is hope in maybe. Maybe. Such a tiny word. Such a powerful word.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. —Peter Pan

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. —Thomas Edison

the fruit merely a manifestation of what was inside the tree all along.

Fear, without potential mitigating

Each of us has more intelligence than we are trained to use and the part that we get graded on in school doesn't amount to much.

There is no such thing as "it can't happen here.

So I graduated from college with a degree in journalism and was ready to find my dream job at a newspaper in addition to one good man who owned his own car and was certain about his sexuality, my two new, revised qualifying criteria for a potential date.

We justify our mistakes, by saying I'm just a human. But we can be more, be a better version of ourselves, if only we have the conviction to try.

David Ogilvy: "If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But, if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

Live up to your potential, not down to others expectations.

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Every day / a few billion histories fail to occur.

A cosmology that admits of only one male god limits women's capacity to envision their full potential as human beings.

Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?

it's in those early stages when you're still very open to exploration, that you find opportunities.

Time has ghosts. That's what time is: the ghost of every instant passed, haunting the potential of every moment to come.

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

I believe in talent. I know you're not supposed to believe in that anymore because you're supposed to believe if you just work hard you can do anything. That's how you succeed, maybe. But talent is something you're born with. You cannot acquire it by working hard, and you cannot lose it by lying around either.