Quotes About Potential

Notice I did not say what people can do--what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be.

The art of leadership, as Max says, is "liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible." Thus, the leader is the "servant" of his followers in that he removes the obstacles that prevent them from doing their jobs. In short, the true leader enables his or her followers to realize their full potential.

How marvelous is Man! How proud the word rings—Man!

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man--Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

I must repeat: Psycho-Cybernetics does not say that man is a machine. Rather, it says that man has a machine that he uses.

God sees us as men and women in whom and through whom He can do a great work. He sees us as already serene, confident, and cheerful.

Psycho-Cybernetics does not say that man is a machine. Rather, it says that man has a machine that he uses.

I failed once in the past, so I will probably fail in the future" is neither logical nor rational. To conclude "I can't" in advance, without trying, and in the absence of any evidence to support the inevitability of failure, is not rational. We should be more like the man who was asked if he could play the piano. "I don't know," he said. "What do you mean you don't know?" he was asked. "I have never tried," he replied.

1. Your built-in Success Mechanism must have a goal or "target." This goal, or target, must be conceived of as "already in existence—now" either in actual or potential form.

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.

I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that.

Some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.

I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

His life was always like this moment -- almost brilliant, almost clever, almost and always not quite.

You are born to achieve beyond potential, let your every breath counts.

Sve je bilo mogu?e, a ništa se nije ostvarivalo.

A uvijek izgleda lijepo ono sto se nije ostvarilo.

because when you're young, you don't really believe you'll ever be anything other than young.

But here was where the question of talent became slippery, for who could say whether Spirit-in-the-Woods had ever pulled incipient talent out of a kid and activated it, or whether the talent had been there all along and would have come out even without this place.

How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it you could just make yourself

It was as though there were a box I kept under a bed and pulled out only once in a while, and in this box were crammed Mary McCarthy and Lillian Hellman and Carson McCullers and now Lee the journalist. If I opened the lid, their heads would pop out like jack-in-the-box clowns on springs, mocking me, reminding me that they existed, that women could occasionally become important writers with formidable careers, and that maybe I could have done it if I'd tried.