Quotes About Potential

When people have never felt the power of their own wings, they can't imagine taking flight.

With this thought resonating, I realized that we all have gifts within, but they're too often hidden. We have gifts we have never used, even though they are within reach. If we only knew where to look, we would find them. These gifts are special. They might even change our lives and help make the world a better place. We all have gifts given to us by God.

We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.

Each of us is born with the potential for the unfolding of our true self. When you deviate from the truth, you are interfering with the intention of something greater than you are- call it nature or a higher power. As a result, you develop discomfort.

Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package

The greatest wastes are unused talents and untried ideas.

Women really do rule the world. They just haven't figured it out yet. When they do, and they will, we're all in big big trouble.

Don't deny hope it's chance to work magic

The human brain is like a railroad freight car -- guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty.

There is nothing worse in this world then wasted talent.

Use the talents you possess -- for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure, we ask ourselves 'who am I to be Briliant, Georgeous, Talented and Fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be.

There is no point in having the idea for a wonderful novel if you have never learned to read and write.

Inner creativity is always there - it just has to be released from its prison.

The saddest people are those who talk about the books they could have written, the garments they could have designed, or the pictures they could have painted - if only ... you do not have to be one of those people.

If there's reason to be afraid, then anything is possible.

None of us knows all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

The real question is whether the brighter future is really always so distant. What if, on the contrary, it has been here for a long time already, and only our own blindness and weakness has prevented us from seeing it around us and within us, and kept us from developing it?

Africa has no future.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

Let not young souls be smothered out Before they do quaint deeds And fully flaunt their pride.