Quotes about Potential
I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
- Lauren Bacall
All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
- Charles Dickens
The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.
- Charles Dickens
And I wondered when I peeped into one or two on the lower tiers, and saw the tied-up brown paper packets inside, whether the flower-seeds and bulbs ever wanted of a fine day to break out of those jails, and bloom.
- Charles Dickens
It only shows how true the old saying is, that a man never knows what he can do till he tries, gentlemen. From "Pickwick Papers" ch. 49 page 646
- Charles Dickens
Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has Great Expectations.
- Charles Dickens
It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished.
- Charles Dickens
Life: A bank-account with so much divine energy at your disposal.
- Elbert Hubbard
A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive. And among that billion minus one Might have chanced to be Shakespeare, another Newton, a new Donne; But the One was Me.
- Aldous Huxley
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.
- Wayne Dyer
Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anybody else can do.
- Mike Huckabee