Potential Quotes

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Life is worthwhile if you try. It doesn't mean you can do everything but there are a lot of things you can do, if you just try.

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. I wish you Happy New Year and diary full of best stories ever written in your life.

The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are .

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

The secret to success can be found in people's daily agendas. If they do something intentional to grow every day, they move closer to reaching their potential. If they don't, their potential slowly slips away over the course of their lifetime.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Until I understand where I am, I can’t get to where I am going. This is the value of a compass when we are out walking or hiking and need to know we’re going in the right direction. But we also have an internal North Star. It’s that little nudge that tells us if we are on the right path to fulfilling our potential, or on the wrong path wasting energy traveling somewhere we don’t need to go. So my advice to you is, pull out that compass every once in a while and make sure you are navigating in the right direction on your journey.

Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.

Remember, in the end, it isn't what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.

I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.

Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.

Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?

The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become.

We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into.

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

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

We've got all the ingredients for a sensational future.

All men are poets at heart.

Unlike physical progress, which is subject to natural restrictions, the qualities of the mind can be developed limitlessly.

Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream.

The mighty hero of extraordinary powers, able to lift Mount Govardhan on a finger, and to fill himself with the terrible glory of the universe, is each of us: not the physical self visible in the mirror, but the King within.

I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.

The Heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.

Your life is big. Keep reaching.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.

Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.

If you want to learn to love, then you must start the process of finding out what it is, what qualities make up a loving person and how these are developed. Each person has the potential for love. But potential is never realized without work.

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

The human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.

The past does not equal the future.

Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.

You may not be able to do all you find out, but make sure you find out all you can do.

How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.

An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

All the resources we need are in the mind.

We've seen what can be accomplished when we use 50% of our human capacity. If you visualize what 100% can do, you'll join me as an unbridled optimist about America's future.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning - one that leads you toward becoming the fullest human being you can be.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.

I always believed in love, compassion and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential.

One must be something to be able to do something.

We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.

Do not feel lonely,the entire universe is inside you.Stop acting so small.You are the universe in ecstatic motion.Set your life on fire.Seek those who fan your flames.

There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold.

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.

You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them.

A youth is to be regarded with respect.

From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door.

...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.