Quotes About Potential

Effective leaders who reach their potential spend more time focusing on what they do well than on what they do wrong. To be successful, focus on your strengths and develop them. That's where you should pour your time, energy, and resources.

They are committed to excellence. John Johnson in Christian Excellence writes, "Success bases our worth on a comparison with others. Excellence gauges our value by measuring us against our own potential. Success grants its rewards to the few but is the dream of the multitudes. Excellence is available to all living beings but is accepted by the . . . few.

Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.

choose to collaborate with others. There's no greater way to increase your potential.

Novelist H. G. Wells held that wealth, notoriety, place, and power are no measures of success whatsoever. The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have been and what we have become. In other words, success comes as the result of growing to our potential.

The truth is that leadership opportunities are plentiful and within reach of most people."3

When you know your purpose in life and are growing to reach your maximum potential, you're well on your way to being a success.

knowledge alone is not power. Knowledge has value only in the hands of someone who has the ability to think well. People must learn how to think well to achieve their dreams and to reach their potential.

El talento atrae al talento.

One of the best applications of this idea is expressed in what I call the 101 percent principle: Find the one thing that you believe is the potential leader's greatest asset, and then give 101 percent encouragement in that area. Focusing on a person's strengths promotes positive growth, confidence, and success as a potential leader. Focus

Connecting is vital for any person who wants to achieve success. It is essential for anyone who wants to build great relationships. You will only be able to reach your potential—regardless of your profession or chosen path—when you learn to connect with other people. Otherwise, you'll be like a nuclear power plant disconnected from the grid. You'll have incredible resources and potential, but you will never be able to put them to use.

Dios crea a todos los seres humanos con dones naturales, pero también los fabrica con dos extremos: uno para sentarse y otro para pensar. El éxito en la vida depende de cuál de ellos usamos más, y es como echar suertes con una moneda: ¡La cabeza gana! ¡La cola pierde!

las limitaciones reales y permanentes se originan en nuestras mentes, no en nuestros cuerpos. -ROGER CRAWFORD

Successful people do daily what unsuccessful people do only occasionally. The bookends of success are beginning well and ending well. What is between those bookends? Consistency. If you want to become the leader you have the potential to be, you need to pay the price of self-discipline.

Everything begins with a thought.

Si tememos a la prueba, nunca tendremos la oportunidad de desarrollar el talento.

You will be able to reach your potential and help your organization reach its loftiest goals only if you begin developing leaders instead of merely attracting followers. Leaders who develop leaders experience an incredible multiplication effect in their organizations that can be achieved in no other way.

Usted puede hacer lo que yo no puedo hacer. Yo puedo hacer lo que usted no puede hacer. Juntos podemos hacer grandes cosas». MADRE TERESA

Jim Sundberg says, "Discover your uniqueness; then discipline yourself to develop it.

The mark of someone with potential to grow is openness to the process. When you look at people who are eager to learn more, you can bet they are on the right track. And when you talk to people who just don't want any more instruction, then they have pretty much hit the wall. They are done.

No matter what our circumstances, our greatest limitation isn't the leader above us—it's the spirit within us.

You don't have to be great to become a person of courage. You just need to want to reach your potential and to be willing to trade what seems good in the moment for what's best for your potential. That's something you can do regardless of your level of natural talent.

Seguir lo que nos apasiona es la clave para descubrir nuestro potencial.

THE LAW OF THE PRICE TAG The Team Fails to Reach Its Potential When It Fails to Pay the Price