Quotes About Potential

Unleash the potential that is in another and you unleash the potential that is in you.

You were born a star; your deeds determine how brightly you'll shine.

Your greatest challenges bring out your greatest potential.

Your talent is a blank check.

I guess I don't really know what I want to do, either. Sometimes I feel like a shook-up bottle of soda. Like, I have all this passion that wants to explode, but I don't know where to aim it yet.

Ultrarealists have something many of us don't—an extraordinary readiness to face reality—and if you want to fulfill your own potential, you want that too.

For the ultrarealist, goals exist not to be achieved but to stimulate striving and to drive progress toward the fulfillment of potential. This is why champions set goals that are hard to achieve, and why they welcome opportunities to raise their game.

A girl need not necessarily have the perfect start in life to fulfill such a dream.

to turn pro." "It bothers me that so many runners feel they somehow don't deserve to take the sport all the way and find out how good they can be," I said. "I wish more folks with average talent would just go for it.

The thing that looks the most ordinary might end up being the thing that leads you to victory.

You shouldn't have been born. Your existence is as close to impossible as can be. To dismiss the impossible is to dismiss yourself.

A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another.

And death is the opposite of possibility.

while coal and diamonds are both carbon, coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond. According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real-life lesson.

We are all potential depressives, but that is never going to be all we are.

She didn't need a vineyard or a Californian sunset to be happy. She didn't even need a large house and the perfect family. She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential.

It can drive you insane, thinking of all the other lives we don't live.

We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite.

An impossibility is just a possibility you don't understand yet.

What sometimes feels like a trap is actually just a trick of the mind. She didn't need a vineyard or a Californian sunset to be happy. She didn't even need a large house and the perfect family. She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential. She wondered why she had never seen it before.

There are billions of different versions of an older you. There is one version of the present you.

We don't have to do everything in order to be everything

pawn is the most magical piece of all. It might look small and ordinary but it isn't. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.

I am saying that the thing that looks the most ordinary might end up being the thing that leads you to victory.