Potential Quotes

An old colored brother is said to have finished his prayer with words like these: and now good Lord; I know that you ain't going to let nothing come to me that me and you together can't handle.

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The Lord doesn't always choose men for what they are, but for what they can become.

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If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.

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Two people can do anything as long as one of them is the Lord.

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You never know what you can do until you try.

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It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.

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Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Miguel de Cervantes

Its the moment you think you can't that you realize you can.

Celine Dion

Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Therefore, give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths. Remain steadfast...and one day you will build something that endures, something worthy of your potential.

Epictetus

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, Thus far and no farther.

Ludwig van Beethoven

The riches of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It's cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.

Richard M. DeVos

If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Richard M. DeVos

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Michel de Montaigne

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.

Orison Swett Marden

Now the Name of Jesus is a concrete and powerful means of transforming men and women into their hidden, innermost utmost reality.

Bible

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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. Of if you can paint, maybe you think--I did--that God put you on earth to blow your father away.

Stephen King

The creator is both detached and committed, free and yet ensnared, concerned but not too much so. If motivation is too strong the person is blinded; if the objective situation is too tightly structured, the person sees none of its alternative possibilities.

Robert Macleod

You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished.

Neil Gaiman

Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?

Victor Hugo