Quotes About Potential

Sometimes,' she said, as her eyes shone wide and bright, 'people look up to people not for who they have been, but for what they could become. For what they know they could be. They see in you something special.

She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential. She wondered why she had never seen it before. She heard Mrs Elm's voice, from under the table somewhere far behind her, cutting through the noise. 'Don't give up! Don't you dare give up, Nora Seed!' She didn't want to die. And she didn't want to live any other life than the one that was hers.

And even if you were a pawn - maybe we all are - then you should remember that a 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.

What if there was never a way? What if I am . . . trapped?' 'So long as there are still books on the shelves, you are never trapped. Every book is a potential escape.' 'I just don't understand life,' sulked Nora. 'You don't have to understand life. You just have to live it.

She realised, in that moment, that she was capable of a lot more than she had known.

Dream big . . . You can be anything you want to be. Because in one life, you are.

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

Nora stared at the books around her. 'So, are you saying I only have pawns to play with?' 'I am saying that the thing that looks the most ordinary might end up being the thing that leads you to victory. You have to keep going.

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

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.

She had to try harder. She had to want the life she always thought she didn't. Because just as this library was a part of her, so too were all the other lives. She might not have felt everything she had felt in those lives, but she had the capability.

She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential. She wondered why she had never seen it before.

That means there are still as many possible lives out there for you as there ever were. An infinite number, in fact. You can never run out of possibilities.' 'But

Circle. In another, I might be an Olympic swimming champion. Who knows? Every second of every day we are entering a new universe. And we spend so much time wishing our lives were different, comparing ourselves to other people and to other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain degrees of good and degrees of bad.

Circle. In another, I might be an Olympic swimming champion. Who knows? Every second of every day we are entering a new universe. And we spend so much

We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.

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.

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.

Think of all that possibility. It's exciting.' 'Yes. I suppose it is.' 'A whole life in front of you.' 'A whole life.' 'You could do anything, live anywhere. Somewhere a bit less cold and wet.

It was pathetic really, the amount of possibilities she had squandered.

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.

Hope, in its simplest form, is the acceptance of possibility.

si bien el carbón y el diamante son ambos carbono, el carbón es demasiado impuro como para convertirse jamás en diamante, por mucha presión que se le aplique. La ciencia dice que uno empieza siendo carbón y termina siendo carbón. Quizá esa sea la lección vital que había que aprender.

you should remember that a 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.