Quotes about Potential

The acorn contains the oak

You are not your circumstances, you are your possibilities

It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

Youth is the only thing worth having.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.

And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.

She was not herself--she was not anything. She was something that is going to be--soon--soon--very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.

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.

A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.