Quotes About Potential

I try to tell each group that it is not alone, and that the very people who are disheartened by the absence of a national movement are themselves proof of the potential for such a movement.

Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.

There are amazing people in this world that just need an opportunity.

You can do amazing things when you believe.

And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.

I think of the amazing things that were going on. So it's so rich. The doors keep opening.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin is a place that I feel like it's undervalued. It's one of the most amazing cities I've been to. It has the most to offer.

Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.

So many of my staff is young enough that they're going to do amazing things. And I'm going to be helping them try to do them.

The amazing ones are, those that don't know it!

A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

I think you've still got lightning in you.

I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.

I can do anything. I can be anything. No one ever told me I couldn't. No one ever expressed this idea that I was limited to any one thing, and so I think in terms of what's possible, not impossible.

physical philosophers; they had sought for the physis or nature of external things, the laws and constituents of the material and measurable world. That is very good, said Socrates; but there is an infinitely worthier subject for philosophers than all these trees and stones, and even all those stars; there is the mind of man. What is man, and what can he become?

One of his practical principles was to attend most to those pupils who were of middle ability; the dunces, he said, were beyond all help, and the geniuses would help themselves.

within, by its nature and structure and entelechy;

Genius consists in this, that the knowing faculty has received a considerably greater development than the service of the will demands.

We please others best-and best satisfy ourselves-only when we have done our own job fully and thus fulfilled our own potential.

Neither youth nor childhood is folly or incapacity

Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.

Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.

This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.

Yes, urge I do: warped chrysalis of what blind perfect seed: for who shall say what gnarled forgotten root might not bloom yet with some globed concentrate more globed and concentrate and heady-perfect because the neglected root was planted warped and lay not dead but merely slept forgot?