Quotes about potential

Most of us haven't begun to tap our own potential we're operating way below capacity. And we'll continue as long as we are looking for someone to give us the key to the kingdom. We must realize that the kingdom is in us and we already have the key. It's as if we're waiting for permission to start fully living.

It is humor's job to laugh at the futility oft engendered by the improbable but it is poetry's job to dream of the potentiality of that which is not impossible.

Never worry about what others have worry about what you have and refuse to use. Someone else will also worry about what you have when you begin to make use of it!

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!

Money does not smell of the mire whence it came it has the glorious scent of what will be.

None of us marry perfection we marry potential.

You plan to rob the world of its treasures if you decide to die with your potentials unleashed! The world needs your leadership influence don’t take it raw to the cemetery!

It isn't where you came from it's where you're going that counts.

Most people aren't even close to tapping into their true potential they have no idea what they are capable of in their lives.

This life is your canvas what will you make it?

Potential is an excuse to procrastinateAmbition is a means to thrive.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

They view massive immigration as a massive infusion of potential voters for the Democratic Party, and therefore will do nothing, absolutely nothing to stop that flow of legal or illegal entrance into the country.

Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where execution is not a potential punishment and consume more time from judges, public defenders, and other legal personnel.

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.

Congress has no business telling courts within a state that they are prohibited from considering issues involving a lease for energy development, production, and exploration that has the potential to cause irreparable environmental and economic damage to the Gulf Coast area of that state.

The Keystone pipeline is one of those things that's sort of a political driver. And mostly, the Republicans use it to sort of embarrass the president and embarrass quite a few Democrats who feel that there's a potential for an environmental disaster.

For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.

Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

We're constantly re-evaluating the potential for life. We're finding it where we didn't think it could exist, such as volcanic vents and other extreme conditions like under arctic ice. We're finding life in these incredibly harsh and dynamic conditions, so we're having to re-evaluate our own ideas of what's possible on this planet alone.

Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it.

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

Regret piles up around us like books we have never read.

Choosing a mate is not a matter of can they do the job, rather will they. A partner of "potential" doesn't make for a happy marriage. Their actions have to be in line with your needs.

Infinite potential exists for what actions can be taken.

Most haters are stuck in a poisonous mental prison of jealousy and self-doubt that blinds them to their own potentiality.

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.

It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.

Every moment has infinite potential. Every new moment contains for you possibilities that you can't possibly imagine. Every day is a blank page that you could fill with the most beautiful drawings.

Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.

He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

I wish I was your favorite girl, I wish you thought I was the reason you are in the world, I wish I was your favorite smile, I wish the way I dressed was your favorite kind of style

You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think--I did--that God put you on earth to blow your father away.

Rise up and become the person you were meant to be.

Apparently, before we are born, each of us experiences a vision of what our life can be, complete with reflections on our parents and our tendencies to engage in particular control dramas, even how we might work through these dramas with these parents and go on to be prepared for what we want to accomplish.

There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it

The pitch to which he was aroused was tremendous. All the fighting blood of his breed was up in him and surging through him. This was living., though he did not know it. He was realizing his own meaning in the world; he was doing that for which he was made.... He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity briefly realised its moral potential and flirted with its neurological destiny, a collective spiritual awakening that flared brilliantly until the barbaric and mediocre impulses of the species drew tight once more the curtains of darkness.

(Your) potential doesn’t mean shit if you don’t get off your ass and start working.

Most of us are capable of more than we believe.

Your life is important. Honor it. Fight for your highest possibilities.

Did someone actually have to do bad things to be a bad boy, or was it all about the potential? If it was the potential that counted, then maybe it was the restraint that was so sexy, knowing that he could do something dangerous and powerful but had the restraint not to.

How tragic it will be if we don't each come to grips with our own personal potential and learn the role the Lord has in mind for us. How sad if we waste one more day with a lack of commitment and not meet the measure of our creation.

You are not who you say you are but rather what you do. Look at what it is that you do. If you don't like what you see: decide what you would like to see instead. Make those changes. Realize your potential. Harness your power. Seize every opportunity and do what it is that allows you to be true to yourself. Don't deny yourself your path. Only YOU can decide! Only YOU have that power! Only YOU are living your life!

Somebody once told me the definition of hell:“On your last day on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.” — Anonymous

Realize your potential. Anyone that says one person can’t change the world is wrong. Your actions, thoughts, and words all ripple out into the world. One act of love can change someone’s life. One lifetime of love can change the world. When you realize all of your power, you can start benefiting the entire world with positive actions. Realize your potential to change the world.

You can raise your potential, when you help someone to reach their potential.

Great leaders don't just know the sweet spots of their people. They tap into and unchain the infinite potential imprisoned within their people...

Though I knew I had the potential to do this locked in me like a poisonous pet snake, I knew I didn't have the part of a person you must have to turn that potential kinetic, to be the kind of person who can let their awful plow.

I looked at the piles of plates and cups, and kettles, and bottles and jars, and pies and stoves, and cakes, and tomatoes, &c., and felt that the thing would soon become exciting. It did. They started with breaking a cup. That was the first thing they did. They did that just to show you what they COULD do, and to get you interested.

A bruised apple is not all bad. It still has tremendous potential.

Today every believer has the potential to become a savior and a deliverer in his own area of specialization if only he/she make himself available

Because we are of God each one of us has the potential to be a victor

If you are born of God then you have the potential to be victorious in all things

Maximize the potential of everyone close to you

The potential that every person has is not his possession

To be scorned in the public because of your race is to let you know that you are pregnant with a massive potential about to be delivered

Titles are prisons of human potential

See things in terms of Potential. Recognize:Your Amazing Potential.

I would just have to find a hog, slaughter it, butcher it, cure the meat, then fry it up. Thinking about the bacon—the potential of bacon—gives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn't. Seriously.

You have immense potential to achieve what you desire.

Anyone who has ever achieved anything has been a steward of his potential.

Negativity feeds on itself, thereby compounding the potentially undesirable outcomes.

The marriage between potential and inspiration is pronounced by willingness. If one isn't there, then you will chase inspiration instead of it finding you.

As long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance.

You have more potential in you than you can possibly use up in an entire lifetime or even in several lifetimes. Stop making up excuses and believing in limits.

There is the potential for your beliefs to be infinite and limitless.

Each moment has the potential to be special and memorable.

There is no limit to the extent of the potential that is open to you.

You are given the potential to excel, whether you do or not is entirely up to you.

Not limiting your beliefs opens pathways to infinite potential.

You have a great potential.

You have a great potential. Explore your special skills.

You have great potential. Explore your special skills.

What a tragedy it would be if you lived your entire life without discovering who you are, without reaching your full potential.” Ray Mancini

You are a potential genius, so unleash your potential to release your genius.

There's One Person above all others who desires an extraordinary life for you. He is a Father who delights, like any good father, in the achievements and happiness of His children. His name is God! And nothing will please Him more than seeing you reach your highest potential.

Everyone has the potential to live a life of purpose.

You can never meet your potential until you truly learn to love yourself.

You will do heroic deeds by faith.

We work to firstly realize our hidden potentials.

We work to discover and release the potential of the earth around us.

Each day is filled with promise, potential and possibility.

You are infinitely capable. You don't live in the universe. You are the universe. You are the entire universe experiencing itself through the eyes of one human. And thus, you are free to create the reality you choose.

You will be amazed to see how just one moment of truth has the potential to simplify your struggles!

Only a real pastor and a true leader will be looking for ways to train and equip his people to develop their potential.

Potential is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Every moment holds the potential to cause us to see differently.

The best steel doesn't always shine the brightest.

Marriage should liberate, not incarcerate. Real love shouldn't limit a person's potential, it should expand it.

When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential.

The crushed teapot in the rubbish of the bulldozed house will sing in your ears forever.

Everyone is familiar with the phenomenon of feeling more or less alive on different days. Everyone knows on any given day that there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth, but which he might display if these were greater. Most of us feel as if a sort of cloud weighed upon us, keeping us below our highest notch of clearness in discernment, sureness in reasoning, or firmness in deciding. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fir

We all have the greatest potential. Life is about finding it, embracing it and then learning to be with it in the world without fear of prejudice or judgment.

It is wisdom to know who you are, but not to the point of excluding who you might become.

His best talent had yet to be determined, unless you counted unrealized potential.