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Quotes About Potential

Je ne serais plus un oiseau en cage, trop borné pour s'envoler alors même que les portes sont ouvertes.
~ Madeline Miller
Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
~ Mae Jemison
Any one could write a book," said the taxi driver. "Yes, they could, but they DON'T," said Maeve Binchy
~ Maeve Binchy
Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
the poem is a dice throw on a patch of darkness that may or may not glow
~ Mahmoud Darwish
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Whether they are raised in indigenous or modern culture, there are two things that people crave: the full realization of their innate gifts, and to have these gifts approved, acknowledged, and confirmed. There are countless people in the West whose efforts are sadly wasted because they have no means of expressing their unique genius. In the psyches of such people there is an inner power and authority that fails to shine because the world around them is blind to it.
~ Malidoma Patrice Some
I want to live my life to its fullest potential. I want to embrace my own purpose, however large or small it may be. I want to find my own Nehru moments and take positive steps toward becoming the person I am meant to be. The journey will undoubtedly be a winding one, filled with surprises and setbacks as well as gifts. But I'm ready to embrace it fully, wherever it may take me.
~ Mallika Chopra
I can't stop thinking about what might have been… I can't stop imagining the two of us together. My body burns at the thought of it. Sephy and I might've been together for ever." — Callum McGregor
~ Malorie Blackman
Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.
~ Maltbie Babcock
Sperm is the storehouse of male sexual energy. A single ejaculation has 200 to 500 million sperm cells, each a potential human being. There are enough spermotozoa lost in a single orgasm to populate the entire United States if each cell was to fertilize an egg.
~ Mantak Chia
I no hi ha una emoció estètica en l'orgasme?Què pot ser més bell que un cos a l'instant que actualitza totes les seves potencialitats i es fa perfecte?
~ Unknown
Rien n'est impossible, seules les limites de nos esprits définissent certaines choses comme inconcevables.
~ Marc Levy
A partir de ahora, la vida te pertenece; nada te resultará imposible, si lo deseas verdaderamente.
~ Marc Levy
Nos jours ne sont beaux que par leur lendemain.
~ Marcel Pagnol
Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.
~ Marcel Proust
But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.
~ Marcel Proust
Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.
~ Marcel Proust
Love is also a force of light and nurture that liberates you to inhabit to the full your own difference. There should be no imitation of each other; no need to be defensive or protective in each other's presence. Love should encourage and free you fully into your full potential.
~ John O'Donohue
One of the greatest sins is the unlived life, not to allow yourself to become chief executive of the project you call your life, to have reverence always for the immensity that is inside you.
~ John O'Donohue
We were all reared in a world that concentrated on sin and sinfulness, but I believe that when we come into the eternal world we won't so much be checked for our failures, but we will be asked whether we honored the possibilities that were placed inside us when we were so carefully fashioned out of the clay.
~ John O'Donohue
Where the imagination is alive, wonder is completely alive. Where the imagination is alive, possibility is awake because imagination is the great friend of possibility. Possibilities are always more interesting than their facts.
~ John O'Donohue
ordinary becomes extraordinary when filled with
~ John Ortberg Jr.