Quotes About Potential

Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.

it has to do with whether you think intelligence is fixed (you're born as smart as you'll ever be) or changeable (you can get smarter throughout life). When provided with evidence that the brain can grow new pathways, fixed-orientation freshman college students on the verge of dropping out switched to a growth orientation and graduated.

There are some who believe that the mind is a blank tablet, on which experience is writ until the page be full, and the cryptic world is known; but I see rather that my own life hath been one long forgetting, the erasure of what was drawn, a terrible redaction; til all that remains is blank white and comfortless. I know not what we have been; I know not what we are; but I know what we might be. And so I light out for the unknown regions.

You can be what you dream.

Tu riqueza está en tu esencia: Quien eres, los talentos con los que naciste.

The desire for liberty may be ingrained in every human breast, but so is the potential for complacency, confusion, and cowardice.

Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Gandhi, King, Havel, Mandela, and many other memorable leaders have found in righteous indignation the psychological edge they needed to endure years of doubt and trial. However, such an emotion is not something everyone can control, and it has, when unleashed, enough destructive energy to turn grand potential to failure.

If thirty years of being a psychologist has taught me anything, it is that it is much easier to talk about things than to change them. But the potential for change is always present. We are at that moment of change now—with our children, our education system, and our willingness to alter some of our parenting habits in order to protect our children from the worst excesses of our culture.

When we protect our children from excessive control, outsized competition, and persistent academic pressure, and choose instead to commit to nurturing them with warmth, clear limits, firm consequences, and a delight in their potential and uniqueness, then our children are free to return to their essential task—the development of a sense of self, sufficiently robust to weather the inevitable ups and downs of a lifetime.

I will not be like a bird bred in a cage, I thought, too dull to fly even when the door stands open.

It is likely you are not a witch. But you are something else. Something you have not found yet. And that is why you go P.240

The real power of effective leadership is maximizing other people's potential which inevitably demands also ensuring that they get the credit. When our ego won't let us build another person up, when everything has to build us up, then the effectiveness of the organization reverts to depending instead on how good we are in the technical aspects of what we do. And we have stopped leading and inspiring others to great heights.

admire the United States not for what we were but for what we might become. Self-governing democracy was not an established creed, but a program for growth.

Two if's scarce make one possibility.

The modern hero is a person who does something everyone thinks they could do if they were a little stronger, a little faster, a little smarter, or a little more generous. Heroes in ancient times were the link between men and perfect beings, gods. Heroes in modern times are the link between man as he is and man as he could be.

If you had permission to do what you really want to do, what would you do?

Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves.

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

Our problems are manmade--therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. Man's reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable--and we believe they can do it again.

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop those talents.

The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

Happiness is the full use of one's talents along lines of excellence.

A child miseducated is a child lost.