Quotes About Potential

It is easier to set a limit for yourself, but if you do so you will never reach your true potential. You have an obligation to live up to your potential.

Somewhere between what is...and what can be...begs the question...what are you meant to be?

By educating the young, we are building a liberating potential force indirectly.

You must dream big and dream often. Take risks and see what happens.

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.

I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty white room of potential

When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.

The reason I entered politics was a belief that the people of this country - having achieved so much that was good and noble in our past - had the potential to do amazing things in the future.

The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.

Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing or being.

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.

Your greatness is measured by your horizons.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.