Potential Quotes

If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you.

Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder

Almost anything is possible with time

Go out as far as you can go and start from there

Why we are here is important, but to know where we are going is imperative. It's not what you've got, it's what you use, that makes a difference in how your life turns out.

You will never learn anything new unless you are ready to accept yourself with your limitations. You must accept the fact that you are capable in some directions and limited in others, and you must develop your capabilities.

The spark from a tiny star can ignite the plains.

Great people do things before they're ready...You might find out something about yourself that's really special and if you're not good, who cares? You tried something.

Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. It is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

The Jewish people, ever since David slew Goliath, have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership.

There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.

If you don't like who you are and where you are, don't worry about it because you're not stuck either with who you are or where you are. You can grow. You can change. You can be more than you are.

It has been said that man can create anything which he can imagine.

We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.

America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it - so long as we seize it together.

Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

I do not believe that we can put into anyone ideas which are not in him already. As a rule there are in everyone all sorts of good ideas, ready like tinder. But much of this tinder catches fire, or catches it successfully, only when it meets some flame or spark from outside, i.e., from some other person.

As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.

Knowledge is potential; action is power.

Appreciate how rare and full of potential your situation is in this world, then take joy in it, and use it to your best advantage.

Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was so deep we didn't even try, or because each of us thought someone else was worrying about our problems.

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power.

In America, everything you need to succeed is within reach.

In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.

Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness.

Successful people don't make a daily decision to grow. The decision has already been made and just needs to be fed. To feed success you must ... know your purpose in life, grow daily to reach your maximum potential, and sow seeds that benefit others. Remember, success is not a destination; it's a daily thing.

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

Everyone you know and all the people you meet have the potential to be someone important in the lives of others.

If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowingvigor.

Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all of the needed talents that go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.

The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.

Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, but never less than they thought we were capable of.

You cannot go higher than you think you can.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

We have a natural creative ability and it is very important to realize this.

You are the only person in existence who can use your potential. It is an awesome responsibility.

Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of.

We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.

You know who you are, but know not who you could be.

In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection.

One must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just a beginning.

Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

A leader is an average, everyday person who is highly motivated.

All things are complete within ourselves.

Your teammates will stretch your vision or choke your dream.

From myself I am copper, through you, friend, I am gold. From myself I’m a stone, but through you, I am a gem!