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Potential Quotes

Potential quotes aim to inspire us to live up to our full potential. Imagine what living your full potential would look like to you. What amazing talent or ability or knowledge is locked up inside you? Aim high.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott

The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Mohammad Ali

The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love.
Teresa Amabile

Face new challenges, seize new opportunities, test your resources against the unknown and in the process, discover your own unique potential.
John Amatt

You were born to greatness. Having a life mission implies that that world has need of you. In fact, the world has been preparing you to fill this need with one incredible life experience after another. Finding and fulfilling your potential will lead you to your highest experience in this life. Believe it, you have a mission. It is the gateway to your personal greatness.
Greg Anderson

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
Lauren Bacall

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so, in a sense, it is all about potential.
Steve Ballmer (Microsoft)

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
Christian Bovee

The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
Les Brown

God calls you to the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
Frederick Buechner

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia

If you follow someone else’s way, you are not going to realize your potential.
Joseph Campbell

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Joseph Campbell

You are in possession of one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, one that has virtually unlimited potential not only to change your life, but also to change your world.
Shelly Carson

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach out children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.
Pablo Casals

With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse.
Deepak Chopra

Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill

To every person there comes in their lifetime that special moment when you are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to you and your talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds you unprepared or unqualified for work which could have been your finest hour.
Winston Churchill

I believe each human being has the potential to change, to transform one's own attitude, no matter how difficult the situation.
Dalai Lama

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
Dalai Lama

With the realization of one’s own potential and self confidence in one’s own ability, one can build a better world.
Dalai Lama

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become – to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become.
Christine Downing

Everything that you are against works against you. Everything that you are against can be restated in a way that puts you in support of something. When you are able to state what you are for rather than what you are against, you are focusing on the potential for positive change. Once that is in place, you will find whatever you are focusing on expanding.
Wayne Dyer

Most people see what is, and never see what can be.
Albert Einstein

Inspiration Deficit Disorder is about losing your vitality and purpose, and forgetting your original source of love and potential. It's about the cost of being disconnected and unaware of your own unique talents, needs, and destiny.
Jonathan H. Ellerby

Be not the slave of your own past –plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a giant asleep within every man. When that giant awakes, miracles happen.
Frederick Faust

Let’s assume that each person has an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different – to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
John Fischer

Everyone has inside him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t yet realize how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
Anne Frank

Love is a union with somebody, or someething, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. It is an experience of sharing, or communing, which permits the full unfolding of one's own inner activity.
Erich Fromm

There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness than to think, feel, and say what is ours.
Erich Fromm

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
Mahatma Gandhi

You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.
Steve Garvey

Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential.
Michael J. Gelb

I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.
Elizabeth Gilbert

In the place of stillness, rises potential. From the place of potential, emerges possibility. Where there is possibility, there is choice. And where there is choice, there is freedom.
Gabriella Goddard

Ability and increased potential grow hand in hand. As we grow, as we move, as we learn, the cells of our nervous systems connect in highly complex patterns of neural pathways.
Carla Hannaford

Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I can’t believe God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
Lou Holtz

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself to be.
Lou Holtz

We all have the extraordinary coded within us waiting to be released.
Jean Houston

Our aspirations are our possibilities.
Samuel Johnson

To fully nurture the creative potential of others requires modeling the behaviors, attitudes and actions consistant with a creative learner. Development of one's creative expression is therefore first.
Susan Keller-Mathers

The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
Robert F. Kennedy

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential - for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possibilities. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
Søren Kierkegaard

Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do not yet know.
Tama J. Kieves

The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential.
Tama J. Kieves

We are all capable of much more than we think we are.
Lao Tzu

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu

There is no greater burden than having great potential.
Linus from “Peanuts”

If you set out to be less than you are capable of, you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Jim Locke

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow into their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond our wildest dreams.
Sidney Madwed

Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.
Eric Maisel

The key question isn’t ‘What fosters creativity?’ But it is why in God’s name isn’t everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might be now why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.
Abraham Maslow

As you experience success in applying kaizen to clear goals like weight loss or career advancement, remember to hold onto its essence: an optimistic belief in our potential for continuous improvement.
Robert Maurer

…what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction…Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities.
Rollo May

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as being of worth and dignity.
Rollo May

No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.
James T. McCay

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Michelangelo

I think the key is for women not to set any limits.
Martina Navratilova

It is better to create than to be learned; creating is the true essence of life.
Geog Niebuhr

You are, at this moment, standing right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
Earl Nightingale

Dreams are necessary to life.
Anais Nin

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII

No star is ever lost we once have seen. We always may be what we might have been.
Adelaide Anne Proctor

How much longer will you go on letting your energy sleep? How much longer are you going to stay oblivious of the immensity of yourself?
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

The cover-your-butt mentality of the workplace will get you only so far. The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business--but it's a whole lot more fun, don't you think?
Bill Rancic

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Anthony Robbins

Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.
Sir Ken Robinson

Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.
Sir Ken Robinson

To realize our true creative potential - in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities - we need to think differently about ourselves and towards each other. We must learn to be creative.
Sir Ken Robinson

The world of reality has its bounds, the world of imagination is boundless.
Rousseau

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
Wilma Rudolph

Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go. Only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.
Karen Ryan

This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man – if man is not enslaved by it.
Jonas Salk

Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed.
Robert H. Schuller

Joy comes from using your potential.
Will Schultz

The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.
Socrates

The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man’s life; and until he has realized it, he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers.
Evelyn Underhill

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
Voltaire

We must cultivate our garden.
Voltaire

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential.
Jane Wagner

Anyone can cut an apple open and count the number of seeds. But, who can look at a single seed and count the trees and apples?
Dottie Walters

The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul.
John Welwood

We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.
David Whyte

The greatest crime is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.
Roger Williams

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Marianne Williamson

As we transcend our past in the things we do, we also become who we can be. Thus creativity is those attitudes by which we fulfil ourselves.
John G. Young

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Zig Ziglar

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