Quotes About Potential

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We are responsible for what we are; and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

Before every one of them was made, they all existed potentially in the clay, and, of course, they are identical substantially; but when formed, and so long as the form remains, they are separate and different; the clay-mouse can never become a clay-elephant, because, as manifestations, form alone makes them what they are, though as unformed clay they are all one.

Humans were capable of so many amazing things, but too often they just sat making words, not doing anything.

But I did know that opportunities were unlimited. For sale are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman-not the attitude of the prospect.

you should concentrate the rays of the sun through a magnifying glass on one spot on a fallen log, you'd start a fire within a few minutes. Yet the sun could shine for decades on the same piece of wood and it wouldn't ignite without the glass.

Whatever the mind can conceive...it can achieve

When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice that it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless." We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed.

The most important thing to remember is this: to be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.

In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet at the moment when he is making his last revision to a new poem. The moment before, he was still only a potential poet; the moment after, he is a man who has ceased to write poetry, perhaps forever.

Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it is to say the acorn is a potential oak. But the process of writing a poem, of making any art object, is not cyclical but a motion in one direction toward a definite end.

The common belief that everyone can do anything if they just try hard enough is a formula for inefficiency at best and for complete failure at worst.

Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.

Whilst there's a competition still on we're still a chance.

We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.

Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.

I wasn't thinking of being the greatest. But I knew I had a chance.

No change, no chance.

Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential

Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.

Any chance beats no chance.

Every generation gets a chance to change the world Pity the nation that won't listen to your boys and girls Cos the sweetest melody is the one we haven't heard

What is not grasped has all the chances to become real.

When you just arrive in L.A., you are in a great position, as you are fresh meat, and people will meet you and give you a chance.