Famous Quotes about Potential (65 Quotations)

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never been in bed with a mosquito.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

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

Lord we may know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

Man is not made for defeat.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so.

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

One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.

Reach up as far as you can, and God will reach down all the way.