Potential Quotes

I love skyscrapers. Visiting cities lush with tall buildings has always been a treat for me. The implications of these immense towers are tremendous - a representation of the power of mind over matter. It never ceases to amaze me that within our minds exist the power to transform earthly materials into these colossal giants. For me, a walk among skyscrapers is a pleasant reminder of the boundless potential of human thought.

~ Todd William

Nina sniffed, shifting her shoulders to look at the sky through the branches. She's a sweet girl, but poor.Ire pricked through me, and the last of his charisma shredded. Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It's a lack of resources.

~ Kim Harrison

The truly unsettling thing about being a woman was needing a man to realise one's full potential

~ Margaret Way

To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis suggests that the essential fact has been overlooked that every human is potentially a genius. Education and dissemination of knowledge must assume a form which allows each student to absorb whatever develops his own genius, lest he become frustrated. The same outlook applies to the genius of the peoples as a whole.

~ Fritz Zwicky

Only when man cornered,potential forced to appear.

~ Toba Beta

One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.

~ Douglas B. Reeves

I love to challenge myself to greater heights.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't believe in dreams that don't evolve, if your potential develops all the time, how is it possible that your dreams stay the same.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Don’t cap your potential in the name of humility. First, maximize your potential, serve the world with your greatness and then worry about pride :-) lol

~ Assegid Habtewold

Ignorance is more than bliss, it is a recipe for potential disaster.

~ Steven Redhead

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.

~ Thomas Paine

I have been thinking about the idea of excuses for some time now. They are like menacing demons that creep into our lives without us knowing. They are roadblocks, white lies to ourselves, a reason to set the bar lower, and self-justification for achieving less than our full potential.

~ Lorii Myers

Whenever a child is born, a potential power that may consciously change the universe is born!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You have a lot of great hidden abilities in you, and your destiny demands that you never stop discovering them.

~ Hafiz

You will do extraordinary splendor.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can do extraordinary deeds.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is full of highs and lows. We need them both to grow to our fullest potential. Just hang on tight & enjoy the ride.

~ Dawn Gluskin

Although we experience our nonphysical levels of self as potential, they are also functional in our lives. An acorn is a potential oak tree, but the oak tree could be seen as the essence of the acorn, guiding its development into the oak tree.

~ Shepherd Hoodwin

Saying 'I don’t know' is one of the most powerful things you can say because it creates the potential to find out.

~ Kyle Schmalenberg

Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self-esteem and they have compromised their great potential. They have settled for a life of mediocrity, days of despair and nights of tears. They are no more than living deaths confined to cemeteries of their choice. Yet they need not remain in that state. They can be resurrected from their sorry condition. They can each perform the greatest miracle in the world. They can each come back from the dead...

~ Og Mandino

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's thechoices we make that define who we really are.

~ Charles De Lint

The key to investing in yourself is being able to see your potential, not just your actual value. Being able to visualize your value demonstrates that you are already picking up the skills of a 3D thinker.

~ Farshad Asl

When you have an idea, it is like carbon. It has potential. To make it into a diamond, you need to put in hard work. When you have a diamond, it may not be perfect. You need to polish it, improve it. Only then is it valuable.

~ Rohan Kulkarni

We do not measure the value of a person by their outward appearance, rank, or creed, rather by the sum of the agápe in their heart. Your value in the cosmos is greater than precious metals or jewels, humans have to potential to take us all into a period of great enlightenment, or to our ruin. The choice is yours.

~ Guy T. Simpson Jr.

Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life.

~ R.a. Salvatore

When you're young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time you can enjoy the fact of being there on the rock, flat mollusk-pulp, damp and happy.

~ Italo Calvino

It makes me sad that not every book is good,' I said. 'Not every book can be loved.''But when I pull a book off a shelf, and examine it, turning it this way and that, inspecting the cover, flipping through the pages and glancing at the words as they flash by, a thought here and a sentence there and I know that there is potential between those pages for love. Even if in my opinion the book is bad, someone else may find it good. Isn’t that like love?

~ Cecil Castellucci

Potential is an excuse to procrastinate,Ambition is a means to thrive.

~ Donovan

You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.

~ Myles Munroe

Junk is in the eyes of the beholder. Some look, but others see.

~ Myles Munroe

Many storytellers with possibly more potential than Shakespeare, even though I have not read much of him, could not hit much fame because they treated their stories like their wives. Rather than limiting the emotion only to flirting with their stories, they married them, thus limiting their chances of experimenting.

~ Pawan Mishra

The problem isn't a shortage of opportunities, it's a lack of perspective.

~ Tim Fargo

Author describes one character's optimism as, that quiet well-being which perhaps you and I have felt on a sunny afternoon when, in our brightest youth and health, life has opened a new vista for us, and long to-morrows of activity have stretched before us like a lovely plain which there was no need for hurrying to look at, because it was all our own.

~ George Eliot

Utopia is a collective shift of perception away. Abundance is all around us. Only our efforts at tower-building blind us to it, our gaze forever skyward, forever seeking to escape this Earth, this feeling, this moment.

~ Charles Eisenstein

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

~ Nathan Filer

I did not know of any single soul who succeed in life without a mentorship.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Youth is wasted on the young.

~ George Bernard Shaw

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

~ Confucius

[Self] Perception is directly proportional to performance. Change a youth's perception, and you change their performance, their future... and their life.

~ Justin Young

America runs on credit darling. Why do you worry, our credit will take care of this payment. It is not saving or cash in hand that matters. We do not need cash, we just need potential. The system in the US believes in potential. That isthe model of the future. You need not be born rich, but you should be in the league that can make it big.

~ Ravindra Shukla