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Quotes About Potential

La capacidad de un hombre es la misma que la amplitud de su visión.
~ Idries Shah
Everything man needs is in the world.
~ Idries Shah
Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.
~ Idries Shah
A thick and shapeless trunk would never believe that it could become a statue, admired as a miracle of sculpture, and would never consent to submit itself to the chisel of the sculptor who sees by his genius what he can make of it.
~ Ignatius of Loyola
Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness.
~ Ilchi Lee
I don't believe in greatness that is bestowed as a rare gift to a few lucky ones. Rather, I think all people have greatness inside them. It is just a matter of persistence--sticking to what you have envisioned until it is reality. I have a deep conviction that everyone, including you, has been given exactly the right set of gifts to fulfill some magnificent purpose in life. Greatness must simply be chosen. And if you choose it, it will happen.
~ Ilchi Lee
Have you ever thought of yourself as a great being? Have you ever been moved by a thought that came from inside?
~ Ilchi Lee
Nothing is the universe's great storehouse and power plant. Laws give the universe order and stability, while possibilities give the universe dynamic creativity and change. Through the balance of these, the universe maintains its eternal dynamic harmony that provides all beings with the environment in which they can realize their potential value.
~ Ilchi Lee
Meditation is a powerful way to enhance your attention, develop your ability to think mindfully, and to use the unlimited creative potential of your mind.
~ Ilchi Lee
I know you . . . That you hold inside Vast possibilities and dreams And limitless love.
~ Ilchi Lee
You can encounter the great life within you when you recover the zero point," "When you encounter that great life, all limits created by the thoughts and emotions vanish and infinite creativity springs forth.
~ Ilchi Lee
I would suggest that developing in every student the positive potential that can benefit the world has to be the primary purpose of education, rather than the effort to impart knowledge and skills.
~ Ilchi Lee
The primary aim of an Enlightenment is to make peope realize their potential for enlightenment. That enlightenment is not for the selected few. That enlightenment can occur in everday life. That mass enlgihtement is the only way to slove today's widespread ills. But mass enlightenment starts with the individuals
~ Ilchi Lee
Freedom to be your best means nothing unless you are wiling to do your best.
~ Colin Powell
Human beings do not realise the extent to which their own sense of defeat prevents them from doing things they could do perfectly well.
~ Colin Wilson
We don't all have to be in the limelight to be reaching our potential,' Jack said, keeping his voice even. 'There's something to be said for raising a family and being part of my community.
~ Colleen Coble
The boys could have been many things had they not been ruined by that place. Doctors who cured diseases or perform brain surgery, inventing shit that saves lives. Run for president. All those lost geniuses - sure not all of them were geniuses, Chickie Pete for example was not solving special relativity - but they had been denied even the simple pleasure of being ordinary. Hobbled and handicapped before the race even began, never figuring out how to be normal.
~ Colson Whitehead
My greatest fear, is that when in the state of judgement, I am shown All that I could have done, had I trusted more.
~ Unknown
Of beauteous minds have we; a mind's imagine of what could be.
~ Unknown
There's all that we are and all that we wish to be.
~ Unknown
There's never a reason for you, to not become all that you do dream.
~ Unknown
Think about the universe, and all we do not yet know, and feel excited for all the possibilities.
~ Unknown
Think big. Then, think bigger.
~ Unknown
We are still yet at the very beginning of humanity's greatest journey.
~ Unknown