Potential Quotes

We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only when we have added their expertise to our own that we can truly excel towards our most ambitious goals and reach our fullest potential.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Some people experience a life-changing sensation that transforms how they see the world after a near-death experience, but the way I see it, we’re all dying – nay, we’re all dead – and it is up to us to be our own self-necromancers to find some form of life and spirit to reanimate the corpse of a life spent wanting.

~ A.j. Darkholme

People interested in change and personal development need larger and larger environments in which to live. Their views expand. Their perspectives broaden. Their interests change. They seek bigger challenges. And they need people in their lives who will make room for their growth.

~ Steve Goodier

God created you for a special purpose.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can make a difference, wherever you are. It begins with a decision and defined purpose.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You must explore the timeless opportunities in life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a great adventure.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Destiny is no more than the fulfillment of purposive potentialities within us. The human cerebral cortex is a single sheet composed of more neurons than there are stars in the known universe folded like a paper crane to fit in a quart-sized cubbyhole, there is enough potential energy in a single person that if released would equal thirty hydrogen bombs. Destiny is nothing to sneeze at!

~ Brian Mcgreevy

Fulfilling our destiny and realizing our potential all begins in our mind. That's why the devil tries to bombard our thinking.

~ Christine Caine

Every man walks his own path, and every path has its fair share of locked doors. You never know who holds the key to a door you’ll need to open one day, so you best treat people as if they are all keyholders.

~ A.j. Darkholme

The most fulfilling adventures happen when you start your journey without knowing where you’re going, because only then are you free to experience the unexpected detours you’re meant to take.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Just because someone is a keyholder, does not mean they will always help you unlock the door you want to go through – no matter how much you think you deserve to go through it. Sometimes you just have to reach out and take it.

~ A.j. Darkholme

We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Will, is the precursor of possibility, and the foresight of potential.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

There was for everything a possibility, an invisible pattern that could be made manifest given work and the right materials.

~ Kij Johnson

I won't compete with anybody. I love to compete with my own body. When God closes a door against me, I should not attempt to bang on it. And if God gives me a key to open a door, I should not misuse that key!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Self-condemnation means speaking against one's own success. If can't stop confirming your incompetencies for what you are competent for, you are unlikely do pursue your true purpose.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The best way to describe your total creative capacity is to say that for all practical purposes it is infinite.

~ George Leonard

My greatest treasure is my thoughts.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Too ridged an image of how things should be can completely scuttle any potential success.

~ Steven Redhead

You can, and you will. If you're going to carry any belief, carry one that empowers you. Believe in your unlimited potential.

~ Akiroq Brost

There is that gnawing feeling that we are far more than what we believe ourselves to be. Maybe it’s time to believe the gnawing.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You can, and you will. If you’re going to carry any belief, carry one that empowers you. Believe in your unlimited potential.

~ Akiroq Brost

We can do so much if we just Believe in our own potential.

~ Akiroq Brost

Belief is the driver that gives energy and power to achieve your potential.

~ Steven Redhead

You are surrounded by endless possibilities with your potential being the sum total of your beliefs.

~ Steven Redhead

Believe in the potential of obtaining or achieving a desire.

~ Steven Redhead

As long as there is life, there is a potential; and as long as there is a potential, there will be a success! You will sprout again when cut down! You will rise again even when you fall!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If my body is a Universe, I have a black hole. I mask it, but it sits at the center of my body. I question it. Am I living up to my potential? Would I lose my creativity if I got help? Isn't life a black hole?

~ Claudia Turner

We all need to humble ourselves from time to time and expose ourselves to new perspectives and ideas, even those of the non-experts, or else our growth potential gets weighed down with the ignorance of ego and habit.

~ A.j. Darkholme

I don't want to be like my mentor or inspiration, I can do better. Don't get me wrong, I need them to motivate and inspire me but my potential can never be like theirs.

~ Unarine Ramaru

If we fail to realize our full potential as human beings, we live more on an animalistic level. This is fine for dogs, cats, and chimpanzees but doesn’t work quite so well for women and men. Without the capacity to freely shape our own lives, much as a sculptor might carve stone, we inevitably slip into negativity and depression.

~ H.e. Davey

As human beings, we’re capable of greatness of spirit, an ability to go beyond the circumstances we find ourselves in, to experience a vast sense of connection to all of life.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Meditation is cultivating the potential to transcend your limited self, limited beliefs and limited existence. It is stepping into the exciting territory of limitlessness.

~ Banani Ray

Every time I gaze at stars above, I feel small, big, infinite and connected all at the same time, and tonight on the Amazon is no different.

~ Michael Sanders

Right where you are, the potential of the universe is.

~ Alexandra Katehakis

I cannot say enough of appreciation for your determination to live by the standards of the Church, to walk with the strength of virtue, to keep your minds above the slough of filth which seems to be moving like a flood across the world. Thank you for knowing there is a better way. Thank you for the will to say no. Thank you for the strength to deny temptation and look beyond and above to the shining light of your eternal potential.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

Dream big and dare to make it happen. You have a heavy power, don’t misuse it carrying a paperweight load. Make it big!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

See people in the light of their potentials, not their problems.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

[The moon] ... is an example of practiced stability … it wanes when it must, and reliably returns to full strength … it is a humble model of reasonable potential that I can emulate, and follow.

~ Terry Crawford Palardy