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Quotes About Potential

Hope is a pocket of possibility. I'm holding it in my hand.
~ Tahereh Mafi
I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world.
~ Blythe Danner
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Possibility is the oxygen upon which hope thrives.
~ Paul Rogat Loeb
The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope.
~ Evelyn Underhill
I hope someday what people can do with their lives depends on their talents and how hard they are willing to work, rather than on where they happen to be born.
~ Bill Gates
If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him a bigger bed and hope he plays basketball.
~ Robert Altman
Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
~ Edward de Bono
The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
~ John Ortberg
We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.
~ James Laughlin
Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
When you tell yourself that there is nothing you can do to arrest the global slave trade, you underestimate your own potential and abandon hope for those trapped in captivity.
~ David Batstone
Hope regards problems, small or large, as opportunities.
~ James Keller
I am talking about being optimistic enough to sow some seeds in the hope that some of them will germinate and grow into flowers.
~ Philippa Perry
I believe that there is great hope and great potential for every country to be able to live and be protected with inalienable rights that I believe are God-given.
~ Sarah Palin
Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.
~ Christine Gregoire
When you look into your baby's eyes," Lacy said softly, "you see everything you hope they can be…not everything you wish they won't become.
~ Jodi Picoult
I started off as a director, so when I see other actors directing, it gives me hope that maybe they'll put me into that position at some point, too.
~ Niall Matter
Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
And so, while perhaps not all God's chilluns got wings, enough have for each of us to hope that we may be among those that have.
~ James Webb Young
Hope for the best is what we do, right from the moment we're born.
~ Michael Moore
I'm still only half the writer I hope I will be.
~ Ridley Pearson
I believe the only hope for mankind lies in the hands of our young people.
~ Jane Goodall
When you see the mega-stars doing really, really well, it gives you hope that you could probably do that too.
~ Cher Lloyd