Quotes about Potential

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a genius. You don't have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

That which we are, we are, and if we are ever to be any better, now is the time to begin.

Every time you have a desire come true, some part of you realizes it did not have to live in limitation.

Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight.

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it sometimes.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered—either by themselves or by others.

Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

The world you desire can be won. It exists...it is real...it is possible...it's yours.

He looked at the granite. To be cut, he thought, and made into walls. He looked at a tree. To be split and made into rafters. He looked at a streak of rust on the stone and thought of iron ore under the ground. To be melted and to emerge as girders against the sky. These rocks, he thought, are waiting for me; waiting for the drill, the dynamite and my voice; waiting to be split, ripped, pounded, reborn; waiting for the shape my hands will give them.