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Quotes About Potential

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it
~ Oscar Wilde
As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.
~ Oscar Wilde
The moment I met you I saw that you were quite unconscious of what you really are, of what you really might be. There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.
~ Oscar Wilde
Give women the right opportunities and they are capable of everything.
~ Oscar Wilde
Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy.
~ Oscar Wilde
Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.
~ Oscar Wilde
Within chaos lies opportunity.
~ P.C Cast and Kristin Cast
I believe there is little you cannot do once you set your mind to it.
~ P.C. Cast
He was an unpleasant youth, snub-nosed and spotty. Still, he could balance himself with one hand on an inverted ginger-ale bottle while revolving a barrel on the soles of his feet. There is good in all of us.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I could make a poet out of far less promising material. I could make a poet out of two sticks and a piece of orange peel.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?
~ Pablo Neruda
I love you like the plant that does not bloom and carries in itself, hidden, the light of those flowers
~ Pablo Neruda
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not
~ Pablo Picasso
Sve što možeš da zamisliš je stvarno.
~ Pablo Picasso
Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.
~ Pablo Picasso
It's right underneath your fingers, baby. That's all you have to understand—everything is right underneath your fingers.
~ Pam Grout
Your novel. Couldn't put it down. Quite literary, but with a lot of commercial potential. Irony and yet compassion for the characters. Involved and complex while still being a real page-turner.
~ Pamela Sargent
You possess the power of thought and the power of will. Utilize to the uttermost these divine gifts!
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The beguiling scope of an infant's mind! adultly considered to be limited to toys and toes. Psychological
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
When you say to me that you can't do this or that, I don't believe it. Whatever you make up your mind to do, you can do. God is the sum total of everything, and His image is within you. He can do anything, and so can you, if you learn to identify yourself with His inexhaustible nature.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The body of the average man is like a fifty-watt lamp, which cannot accommodate the billion watts of power roused by an excessive practice of Kriya. Through gradual and regular increase of the simple and foolproof methods of Kriya, man's body becomes astrally transformed day by day, and is finally fitted to express the infinite potentials of cosmic energy, which constitutes the first materially active expression of Spirit.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
You may argue that others have been born with the special talent you lack but desire to have. This is true. But they had to cultivate the habit of that ability some time - if not in this life, then in a previous one. So whatever you want to be, start to develop that pattern now.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The body of the average man is like a fifty-watt lamp, which cannot accommodate the billion watts of power roused by an excessive practice of Kriya. Through gradual and regular increase of the simple and foolproof methods of Kriya, man's body becomes astrally transformed day by day, and is finally fitted to express the infinite potentials of cosmic energy-the first materially active expression of Spirit.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them them than we are of breathing.
~ Parker J. Palmer