Quotes About Potential

There are many wonders in this world that will remain quite beyond your reach unless, in fact, you reach for them.

We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather than bucking up and forging ahead. But what if your childhood was all a big misunderstanding? An elaborate ruse? What does that say about failure? Better yet, what does that say about potential?

One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.

When you play a piece of music there are so many different ways you could play it. You keep asking yourself what if. You try this and you say what if and you try that. When you buy a CD you get one answer to the question. You never get the what if.

When books are opened, we discover that we have wings

Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

My deepest wounds and greatest strengths lie in my ability to see the potential for relationship in my life.

When we fracture our potential for united action and divide ourselves along social, political, economic, or religious lines, we diminish our power.

Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow.

She wants to see good hearts and good brains put to proper use, but I'm not convinced that everybody ought to live like that, or even that everybody can.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity.

For young girls, whom I meet a lot when I travel around the country, it will be a big thing. It will really show them that there's no post in Denmark that a girl can't aspire to.

Dreams can be of value even if you don't have an opportunity to turn them into reality.

Qué grandes son las cosas en los comienzos! Nunca en los principios hubo pequeñeces...

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

What you are is God's gift to you. What you can become is your gift to Him.

Your playing small does not serve the world," said Nelson Mandela in his inaugural speech. "Who are you not to be great?

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.

The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.

A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.

If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.