Quotes About Potential

When we hear our own song as a part of the world song it has a richness, passion and purpose born from the integration of the individual with the whole. It is only in relation to the whole that we can appreciate the full range of our own potential, for the simple reason that our life has a purpose beyond our individual self. When we hear the song of the world soul our own song resonates with this deeper destiny. (p. 104)

Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart.

It's not a fantasy to explore this question about making computers that are much, much, more powerful than the kind that we have sitting around now -- in which a grain of salt has all the computational powers of all the computers in the world.

Give people a chance and they'll usually surprise you.

Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.

We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.

Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.

Today the average lifetime is over seventy years, long enough for a great number of accomplishments. But this development has occurred within the present century. Before that, people tended to die much younger than they do today, and among those early deaths were those of many brilliant and talented people who had much to give the world. It is those people to whom I reach out. It is to them I offer the opportunity to return.

Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.

The life that is demanding to be born is limitless. Nature is a spendthrift. Look at the fish and their millions of eggs. For that matter, look at you and me. In our loins are the possibilities of millions of lives. Could we but find time and opportunity and utilize the last bit and every bit of the unborn life that is in us, we could become the fathers of nations and populate continents.

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

Are you choosing to be ethical in your messaging, marketing and ability? Consider that there is a fine line and clear difference between sharing with potential clients what you have the ability do right now and what you envision yourself being able to do for people in the future.

You had such promise, Katarina. You were top of your class in mathematics, in chemistry, physics. You won the English essay contest. You were on the honor roll. You could have been anything you wanted, but now you are a maid, cleaning up after other people.

Uncertainty, I'm starting to realize, doesn't mean the loss of hope—it means there's possibility.

Never agree to marry a man because he has potential. Men are not like houses; they do not make good fixer-uppers.

Never agree to marry a man because he has potential. Men are not houses, they do not make good fixer-uppers.

As a whole, people suck. But a person can be extraordinary

People have far more power than they realize, if they would only choose to use it.

I'm a pessimist of the human condition, as a rule, but contemplating the future and how the Carpenter kids could contribute to it was the kind of thought that gave me hope for us all, despite myself. Of course, I suppose someone must once have looked down upon young Lucifer and considered what tremendous potential he contained.

Dawn is significant, magically speaking. It is a time of new beginnings.

You humans have the potential to be the most wonderful beings there are—if you can get past all these enormous stupid spots you seem to have in your hearts. It's not your fault. You just don't know how to work your hearts right yet. That's why there are dogs. I think it's nice to know your purpose.

Children have their own kind of power. When you're teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be.

You humans have the potential to be the most wonderful beings there are—if you can get past all these enormous stupid spots you seem to have in your hearts. It's not your fault. You just don't know how to work your hearts right yet. That's why there are dogs.