Quotes About Potential

Most people live and die without even scratching the surface of their potential.

They simply try to be all they can be, here and now, and that brings with it a happiness all its own.

The future of your organization and the potential of your employees are intertwined; their destines are linked." - Matthew Kelly, The Dream Manager

The unexpected is either a curse or an opportunity. We get to decide.

God wants us to be people of possibility, and people of

at what point does our reach exceed our grasp? And if we find that answer it may be worth thinking about the consequences of reaching that point.

The belief that human nature is essentially corrupt taints our vision of life with pessimism and makes us question the very basis of the search for happiness, that is, every human being's potential for perfection.

According to Buddhism, suffering will always exist as a universal phenomenon, but every individual has the potential for liberation from it.

From a Buddhist point of view, every being has the potential for enlightenment just as surely, say the traditional texts, as every sesame seed contains oil.

Buddhism affirms that the ultimate nature of phenomena is emptiness and that emptiness carries within it an infinite potential of manifestation.

You know what the common people are like,' said Artevelde; 'they never know their own strength till the moment for using it has passed.

If it be true, as I believe, that humanity is worth just as much as the sum total of latent heroism which it contains, then we may declare that humanity was never stronger nor more exemplary than now and that it is at this moment reaching one of its highest points and capable of braving everything and hoping everything. And it is for this reason that, despite our present sadness, we are entitled to congratulate ourselves and to rejoice.

There is the possible in the organism. The embryo is not simple matter, but matter which refers to the future.

The negative principle is less identity-with-self than non-difference-with-self. This absence becomes a factor only by negation of its own negation. It is less a unity of the multiple in the living than an adhesion between the elements of the multiple. In a sense, there is only the multiple, and this totality that surges from it is not a totality in potential, but the establishment of a certain dimension.

Matter is 'pregnant' with its form.

With the first sign, a halo of the possible appears, which was not contained in the first sign and which was unforeseeable from it,

It is not true that everything is actual; there is an actuality of the possible as possible, that is, the notion of an outline, the being of becoming actual that is certain possibilities.

There is an equipotentiality in tissue. A tissue gives the possible beyond its actual structure.

And yet we are given a chance as the Side-Octave shews.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

The soul can only blossom forth to its sublime and rare capacities when it feels it is being met with faith.

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.

Sometimes we think we're a little too gifted to show up, yo uknow. But none of us truly is...By avoiding risk we really risk what's most important in life---reaching toward growth, our potential, and a true contribution to a common good.