Potential Quotes

Knowing yourself means being aware of your potential and trusting that you are always growing into it.

~ Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

Trust is always a risk, but when placed in the right people after a trial period where they prove themselves worthy of it, it is a reward transcendent of all the emotional mire that bogs down a person’s potential.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Awake my soul, the glory of the Lord is upon me.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Forgiveness, she was only required to accept the seed of healing, and to let it grow on its own time.

~ H. L. Balcomb

Though there is much we still want, there is much we already have, and that means we have much to lose as well. It’s that potential loss that can keep us bound so tightly that we never reach our biggest dreams, because the biggest dreams require the most risk.

~ A.j. Darkholme

HELLO, my name is your potential. But you can call me impossible. I am the missed opportunities. I am the expectations you will never fulfil. I am always taunting you, regardless of how hard you try, how hard you hope.

~ Nathan Filer

What if no one is coming to discover your hidden talents, to acknowledge your untapped potential, to heal you, to save you from yourself? What if the saviour was always supposed to be you? What if that’s why it hasn’t worked out with anyone else?

~ Vironika Tugaleva

May you find a new grace to live your dreams in coming year.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We can achieve our goals either by human effort or by the power of God. The dependence on God’s power is the best choice.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Possibility is spiritual.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You are capable of anything. Dream great dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Fear deprive us of what we can possess.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I have what takes to get the job done.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Use what you have got to create your world.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Leadership potential is in everyone; we all have it, but we all don't know it until we have a direct individual encounter with the Holy Spirit of God. The principal source of leadership influence is the Holy Spirit.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A mere motivator sees potentials in people and tells them to take actions. A true leader sees the same potentials in the same people and influences them to optimize them under his God-lead inspirations.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It is not about whether you call yourself a leader or not. It is about what you have to show to people as a leader. Leadership is contagious, you carry it and share it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The real power of effective leadership is maximizing other people’s potential which inevitably demands also ensuring that they get the credit. When our ego won’t let us build another person up, when everything has to build us up, then the effectiveness of the organization reverts to depending instead on how good we are in the technical aspects of what we do. And we have stopped leading and inspiring others to great heights.

~ John Dickson

Impossible is Nothing,” it said. “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

~ Elna Baker

Encouragement is the strength of the soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

How could we have unearth our greatest potential without adversity?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Education is acquisition of intellectual knowledge to be what we ought to be.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We were all made with the potential to be the people we are supposed to be. We all have souls and we all have minds and we all have wills. Many people look at the world and see a beautiful place full of potential and love and beauty those are the people you want as friends. But many people look at the world and see a place that hurts, that causes pain, that destroys and corrupts. Those are the people you don't want to have as friends, for those are the people who will pull you down with them, who will fill your mind with similar thoughts, who will turn you from a positive person to a negative person. God made us all with the potential to be positive people, contributing to the growth of this world, but many people choose to be negative, diminishing the light of those who wish to do good.' 'Why?' Walker asked. 'Because, my friend, it's easier. It's unfortunate, but it's true. It's much easier for a person to think that the world will not let him advance, because then that person won't have many expectations of himself, and it's easier to fulfill low expectations.

~ Tom Walsh

Convictions in our ideas is dangerous not only because it leaves us vulnerable to false positives, but also because it stops us from generating the requisite variety to reach our creative potential.

~ Adam Grant

In the professional world of leadership ambition and potential are the most excessive commodities.

~ Noel Dejesus

Refuse to become a victim of your circumstances and give a lift to your potentials each and every day against the wish of any obstacle you encounter!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

We're like goldfields. Until we dig deep to find what's inside us, our true potentials may be hidden forever.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Everything that the spider needs to make a spider-web is not found in the housefly... it's right there in the spider! Whatever you need to make impacts is in you! Discover yourself and make a difference!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When you are good at despising little things, you are likely to throw away the tiny match stick that has the potential of putting the entire forest on fire! Little things do carry heavy potentials!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You may discover your purpose, but if you take it for granted, you will abuse yourself.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you haven’t found yourself yet, it’s difficult to help someone to discover himself. False leaders make more false leaders!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The fact that you lack the fruits is not a proof that you don’t have seeds. It’s not too late to drop your potentials into a good soil. Do it now, harvest awaits you soon!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You break the legs of your leadership chair when you chase after other people’s assignments instead of pursing yours!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Within every little dream seed is the potential viability of sprouting to becoming a great forest.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You may work with 100% capacity every day and may not be seen by anybody for recommendation. This does not mean you should give up! The day you will decide to work at 40% may be the day you'll be seen by the person who is meant to recommend you for higher profile opportunities!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

There are many good seeds in you. Therefore you must avoid every bad soil in the world.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The kind of soil in your area determines the type of crop you will plant to harvest, The kind of potentials in you will decide the type of success you will celebrate.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A man of vision cannot question his potentials. He does not doubt his capabilities. He keeps going because he had seen himself gone already in his visions.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You can dance in the storm. Don't wait for the rain to be over before because it might take too long. You can can do it now. Wherever you are, right now, you can start, right now; this very moment.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You must dare greatly, to receive the grace for greatness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita