Potential Quotes

Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?

~ Charles De Lint

But before [William Stoner] the future lay bright and certain and unchanging. He saw it, not as a flux of event and change and potentiality, but as a territory ahead that awaited his exploration. He saw it as the great University library, to which new wings might be built, to which new books might be added and from which old ones might be withdrawn, while its true nature remained essentially unchanged.

~ John Williams

The Infinite is the distance between both ears.

~ Marc Torra

True education reveals self-potential, more than just sows ideas.

~ Toba Beta

I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.

~ Pat Conroy

‎The greatest discovery you'll ever make, is the potential of your own mind.

~ José Silva

Perhaps success is best defined as maximizing the ratio of your rear wheel horsepower to your engine horsepower. Higher %, happier times.

~ Tim Fargo

Reaching your potential is not simply about dreaming or being idealistic, It is a process that involve specific actions, exercises, discipline and hard work. It is challenging, rewarding and unending.

~ Robert S. Kaplan

Those who do not succeed do not believe in their ability to exercise the potential power to forge beyond perceptions of limitations.

~ T.f. Hodge

Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down.

~ Robert Greene

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

~ Mary Mcleod Bethune

Life’s best coaches are those who believe in you and your potential, sometimes even before you do.

~ Lorii Myers

Think of it, Dad. What if I have it in me to do that, and I don't try?

~ Kim Edwards

Polish those gems within brightly, so you may shine...

~ Gino Norris

Create your legacy by fulfilling your potential...

~ Gino Norris

That in itself made her a little intriguing and enticing. A woman who doesn't know her own potential for passion

~ Kailin Gow

This life is your canvas, what will you make it?

~ Dr. Jayce O'neal

When you limit a woman's potential, you limit your own.

~ Charlie Rose

As sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father, we are capable of so much more. For that, good intentions are not enough. We must do. Even more important, we must become what Heavenly Father wants us to be.Declaring our testimony of the gospel is good, but being a living example of the restored gospel is better. Wishing to be more faithful to our covenants is good; actually being faithful to sacred covenants—including living a virtuous life, paying our tithes and offerings, keeping the Word of Wisdom, and serving those in need—is much better. Announcing that we will dedicate more time for family prayer, scripture study, and wholesome family activities is good; but actually doing all these things steadily will bring heavenly blessings to our lives.

~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

God has given you a gift, why not open it?!

~ Habeeb Akande

Your Potential is an OBLIGATION.Its what you MUST be,do and have because you CAN. You Can, you Must, You will

~ Fela Durotoye

There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.

~ Thomas Paine

You will do great and terrible things, Bethany Rudan. Just make sure you know the difference before you choose to act. And look to the boy, the tracker. He anchors you.

~ Meghan Ciana Doidge

We are given the potential to excel, whether we do or not is entirely up to us.

~ Steven Redhead

There was a time when I could have slept with his friend Briffa, for instance. Around him the air was always fraught with possibilities.

~ Michael Ondaatje

I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

~ Malcolm Mclaren

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

~ Edsger Dijkstra

I've never fallen into what I consider to be a trap of trying to figure out something analytically that could be a very popular film. I would hope my enthusiasm could match up with something with that potential.

~ Jonathan Demme

You have to see the human being in the enemy. If there is potential for change, there is still hope.

~ Deborah Ellis

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

~ John C. Maxwell

We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.

~ Vicente Fox

I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.

~ Jack Scalia

When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.

~ Pat Summitt

I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

~ James Mattis

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

~ Brennan Manning

As a child, I spent a lot of time wandering around the prairies and in the hills, and there was a sense that it was such a wide-open space, and there was kind of a feeling of potential. I could imagine anything happening there.

~ Arthur Slade

The soft power of science has the potential to reshape global diplomacy.

~ Ahmed Zewail

Networked science has the potential to speed up dramatically the rate of discovery across all of science.

~ Michael Nielsen

Many of us are experiencing a phase of change, shedding outdated patterns and liberating ourselves from the old by moving on to the new. The year 2012 is an important one for mankind, a pivotal year. The potential for this exists in the mere fact that the majority of us are yearning for change.

~ Shari Arison

We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future.

~ John Hoeven