Quotes About Potential

Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself.

I dislike poor teachers. They are criminals to me. I've seen so much cruelty toward children. I've seen so many children not given the opportunity to live up to their potential as human beings.

You're about as weak as a match. Carol held it burning for a moment after she lighted her cigarette. But given the right conditions, you could burn a house down, couldn't you?

Born to be Wild. She is the Wild Girl. We call her that because, like our natural wilderness, she follows her own laws. She is part of all of us, no matter what our age or sex. She is freedom and joy, love of the quest and of movement. She is creativity and serenity. She is springtime, full of potential and energy. She is the seed and the sprout, bursting with life. She is the path through the forest, and she is the forest itself.

Rather than being a bleeding image of female disempowerment, Medusa may be read as... one of the most ancient European symbols of women's spiritual abilities... [and] an empowering image of feminine potential.

We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, human individuals thus live far within their limits. They possess powers of various sorts which they habitually fail to use.

you need to be able to see her strengths and possibilities, what she is capable of.

This A is not an expectation to live up to, but a possibility to live into.2

Despite what you've been told, you matter and you can accomplish something great.

Carry your chin in and the crown of your head high. We are gods in the chrysalis.

For life is too short to be little.

And that's what true leaders do. They unfold the lives of others and help them reach their God-given potential.

the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.

The opportunities are endless if they are embraced.

The reluctant leader doesn't merely give accolades to others. It is her true joy to see others awaken to their potential and exceed their greatest dreams. It is the hope of every good teacher to have students who take their work further than the teacher was able to do. To be surpassed is the ideal. To be replaced is the goal, not a sign of failure.

But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening...doesn't mean it won't.

We are creators , and yet we naively play the role of the created . We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us. We kneel like frightened children, begging for help, for forgiveness, for good luck. But once we realize that we are truly created in the Creator's image, we will start to understand that we, too, must be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors will burst wide open for human potential.

I've learned never to close my mind to an idea simply because it seems miraculous.

And maybe that's why the only thing that keeps me going is my belief that we are capable of being better than we are Ã¢â'¬Â¦ capable of taking action to avoid a catastrophic future.

Just because the human mind can't imagine something happening … doesn't mean it won't.

He thought about science, about faith, about man. He thought about how every culture, in every country, in every time, had always shared one thing. We all had the Creator. We used different names, different faces, and different prayers, but God was the universal constant for man. God was the symbol we all shared . . . the symbol of all the mysteries of life that we could not understand. The ancients had praised God as a symbol of our limitless human potential

the human thought, if properly focused, had the ability to affect and change

Wszystko jest mo?liwe. Niemo?liwe wymaga po prostu wi?cej czasu.

Todo es posible. Lo imposible sólo exige más tiempo».