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Quotes About Potential

A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.
~ Bob Kail
You will always think that you cant do it, you may think that the idea you have is useless, but the idea you only have can change your life.
~ Neymat Khan
The future has no memory of your past or present. You are free to make it anything you choose. So make it great!
~ Meena Sarine
There are growing buds in universities which will freshen the future.
~ Ali G.
Because someone imagined it so we have, if you can imagine it you can release it.
~ Newton Kibiringi
...the power of grace can work great things in the human person, greater than we might have dared to hope...(pg.52 in The Examen Prayer).
~ Fr. Timothy Gallagher OMV
It is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I seen my chance?
~ Idries Shah, Reflections
Most of the things that remain tied to earth do not know that they have hidden wings under the hard shell of life" - The Monk in the book "Songs of the Mist
~ Shashi, Songs of the Mist
Where there's possibility there is also hope.
~ Gareth P. Jones, No True Echo
Unlimited possibilities: Hope
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
If you have nothing, its mean you have everything to get.
~ Mian Adeel
I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing you will never get it.
~ Charleszetta Waddles
The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.
~ Maria Montessori
Humanity is regarded as unfinished, incomplete, imperfect. We have the possibility of completing ourselves, perfecting ourselves, and all that is necessary for this lies in us.
~ Maurice Nicoll
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
~ Ashley Montagu
We are all capable of much more than we think we are.
~ Laozi
We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
~ Herman Melville
What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.
~ Jeremy Rifkin
Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.
~ Peace Pilgrim
Every child comes into this world as a gift to humanity.
~ Laurence Overmire
Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.
~ Brenda Ueland
All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.
~ John Stuart Mill
In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.
~ Andre Breton