Quotes About Potential

You must first be nothing to become something.

You must first believe your brilliance before you become brilliant.

Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated and why education has always been the key to the American Dream, the force that erases arbitrary divisions of race and class and culture and unlocks every person's God-given potential.

The essence of America – that which really unites us — is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea — and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. That it doesn't matter where you came from but where you are going.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?

Without remorse she gave good-bye to her fantasies. They'd served their purpose, they'd awoken her heart to its potential. But as far as using them as a template for her life ...

A literatura é o catálogo de vidas possíveis

You can do anything that you wanna do. All you gotta do is to put your brain into it. Take your time and educate your mind.

We may think we are praising and encouraging the young by predicting great things for them, but the burden of our expectations may shame and crush them.

He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher.

I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

So it's not what you thought it was going to be—that doesn't mean it can't still be something amazing.

Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.

They say a man can change his personality—the basic essence of who or what he is—by five percent. Five percent: the total change any one of us is capable of.

I will do today what I can do to enable me to do tomorrow what I can't do today.

You are one choice away from your best decision ever.

God loves to use people whom others believe are unqualified.

God has put more in you than those around you can see.

On the other hand, in a famous "genius test" conducted at Stanford by Lewis Terman and colleagues from the 1920s into the 1990s, a cohort of 1,500 youngsters with IQs over 135 ultimately failed to produce a single genius.48

Apposite here is a saying attributed to Einstein: "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination," Walt Disney said. "But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.

The poet Charles Baudelaire got it right when he observed in 1863, "Genius is only childhood recovered at will."35

Everything we will ever need for life and eternity has already been placed within our spirits.