Quotes about Potential
Don't let being ordinary stop or hinder you from trying to do something great.
- Joyce Meyer
The nobility of what humans could be capable of, if only they weren't human.
- James Carroll
There is a kind of latent omniscience not only in every man, but in every particle. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All promise outruns performance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
So nigh is grandeur to our dust,So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, Thou must,The youth replies, I can.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
- Elias Canetti
We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.
- Thomas Monson
One of the greatest of all principles is that men can do what they think they can do.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp.
- Oswald Chambers
Every man is an impossibility until he is born.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson