Quotes About Potential

What the mind can believe, you can achieve.

My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.

You contain within yourself a unique combination of talents and abilities which, properly identified and applied, will enable you to achieve virtually any goal you can set for yourself.

Your current conditions do not reflect your ultimate potential, but rather the size and quality of goals upon which you currently are focusing.

I want to be the first guy from my generation who doesn't just represent one record but the promise of a lot of them.

The problem with setting goals is that they can be limiting. Perhaps we're asking for something good when God's will is that we be given something great.

God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.

God is a businessman. He is not going to do business with someone who shows no sign of potential return. He invests in people who demonstrate an ability to handle what He has given them.

God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it.

When God demands more of you, it's because He sees more IN you

I like vending machines, because snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at the store, oftentimes I will drop it so that is achieves its maximum flavor potential.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful.

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music, and of aviation.

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person.

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Age is honourable and youth is noble.

We are not limited by our old age; we are liberated by it.