Quotes About Potential

Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.

The alarm must be sounded because it is the economic and social system of capitalism and imperialism that prevents the urgently needed full mobilization of the potential economic surplus and the attainment of rates of economic advancement that can be secured with its help.

If it has the potential to do good, then we should do it

You need to aim beyond what you are capable of.

It's not how good you are, It's how good you want to be.

You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

Just think it, and chances are it will happen.

Anything was possible, and just because things happened in one way didn't mean they couldn' t happen in another.

That is the idea he is toying with, Renzo says, to write an essay about the things that don't happen, the lives not lived, the wars not fought, the shadow worlds that run parallel to the world we take to be the real world, the not-said and the not-done, the not-remembered.

Todos los hombres son huevos, en cierto modo. Existimos, pero aún no hemos alcanzado la forma que es nuestro destino. Somos puro potencial, un ejemplo de lo por venir.

Las oportunidades perdidas forman parte de la vida igual que las oportunidades aprovechadas, y una historia no puede detenerse en lo que podría haber sido.

Anything was possible, and just because things happened in one way didn't mean they couldn't happen in another. Everything could be different.

Of what use is unrealized divinity to anyone? If he is unconscious of his higher self, is a man any better off? The link of being linked with God potentially is not enough. It must also be personally discovered, felt, known, and demonstrated in living activity.

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

You know I used to think the future was solid or fixed, something you inherited like an old building that you move into when the previous generation moves out or gets chased out. But it's not. The future is not fixed, it's fluid.

God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.

God calls him a mighty man not because of Gideon's natural strength and courage, but because of what Gideon will be able to do in the power that God will give him.

any problem must always contain the seeds of its own solution.

The issue is not whether people are "good enough" for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing the kind of social institutions that are most conducive to expanding the potentialities we have for intelligence, grace, sociability and freedom.

I believe anybody with guts and brains who's willing to work hard can make it.

There are a few scattered moments in one's life when everything seems possible.

Riven peeked into the wagon. "You show me what you can do with those balls when I see you again, yes?" "Yes," Elden peeped.

Small sparks can start big fires.

One thing I had figured out by then was that talent, like everything else, was just a starting point. What counted was what you did with it. I knew I wasn't the most talented guitar player or the best singer or the best writer, but I could do all of those things, and I had a complete vision of what it was going to take to succeed---a vision that included working, working, working.