Motivational Quotes

Potential

I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge.

- Norman, Greg

Best Quotes about Potential

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Browne, Sir Thomas

We are hoarding potentials so great that they are just about unimaginable.

Schwartz, Jack

Lord we may know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Shakespeare, William

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

Covey, Stephen R.

The greatest quest in life is to reach one's potential.

Wynn, Mychal

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

Miller, Henry

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Wooden, John

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself.

Alda, Alan

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

Ziglar, Zig

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The Lord doesn't always choose men for what they are, but for what they can become.

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Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

Holtz, Lou

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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.

Berkus, Rusty

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Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.

Porter, Katherine Anne

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... by stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

Gelb, Michael J.

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An old colored brother is said to have finished his prayer with words like these: and now good Lord; I know that you ain't going to let nothing come to me that me and you together can't handle.

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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.

Schwab, Charles M.

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There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

Ford, Henry

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Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?

Hugo, Victor

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Its the moment you think you can't that you realize you can.

Dion, Celine

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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

Tracy, Brian

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Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential.

Cardes, Liane

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What you can become you are already.

Friedrich, Hebbel

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For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.

Shakespeare, William

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I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

Richards, Ann

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We all have the extraordinary coded within us... waiting to be released.

Houston, Jean

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Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

James, William

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When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

Miller, Henry

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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

Lao-Tzu

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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.

Montagu, Ashley

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We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.

Wade, Virginia

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Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so.

Iron, Mary Jean

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For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

Gibran, Kahlil

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A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion... .this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reason and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.

Bach, Richard

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Now the Name of Jesus is a concrete and powerful means of transforming men and women into their hidden, innermost utmost reality.

Bible

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The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.

Herbster, Ben

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One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

Spark, Muriel

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If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

James, William

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Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

Santayana, George

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What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity, intellect and resources -- to do something about them.

Ford, Henry

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The cynic says, One man can't do anything. I say, Only one man can do anything.

Gardner, John W.

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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never been in bed with a mosquito.

Walker, Michelle

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Man is not made for defeat.