Quotes About Potential

We strive for the best we can attain within the scope the world allows.

So then, men may let their great powers lie dormant, while they employ their mean and petty powers on mean and petty objects; but it is physically impossible to employ a great power, except on a great object.

The world would be a terrible place without newborn children, who bring with them innocence, and the hope of man's further perfection.

We have a problem," he said. "Is this another 'I think we have a potential energy flow' kind of problem?" Coloma asked. "No, this is a 'Holy shit, we're all definitely going to die a horrible death in the cold endless dark of space' kind of problem," Basquez said. "We'll be right down," Coloma said.

Really really really difficult, Tony allowed. But theoretically possible because, hey, it's a quantum physics universe.

Rather than molding individuals to fit the needs of the institution, institutions will be shaped to provide platforms to help individuals achieve their full potential by connecting with others and better addressing challenging performance needs.

Passion in this context refers to a sustained and deep commitment to achieving our full potential and greater capacity for self-expression in a domain that engages us on a personal level.

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of them…I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb. You can't make a race horse of a pig. No, said Samuel, but you can make a very fast pig.

I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.

For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.

At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam tells him, You can't make a race horse of a pig. Samuel replies, No, but you can make a very fast pig.

He is one of those whom God has not quite finished.

With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.

You can't make a race horse of a pig. No, said Samuel, but you can make a very fast pig.

You can't make a race horse of a pig." "No," said Samuel, "but you can make a very fast pig.

There wasn't any limit, no boundary at all, to the future. And it would be so a man wouldn't have room to store his happiness.

Finding this potential in my own mind, I can suspect it in others, but I will never know, for no one ever tells.

We are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins.

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.

What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.

Actuality is a running impoverishment of possibility.

You are all of twenty and very much feeling your womanhood. The strange thing about womanhood is that it goes on and on--the same daily burden of constant vague expectation and of everything being just slightly disappointing compared with what one knows one has inside oneself waiting to be touched off. It's rather like being a set of pretty little logs that won't quite catch fire, isn't it?