Quotes about Potential
Yes, urge I do: warped chrysalis of what blind perfect seed: for who shall say what gnarled forgotten root might not bloom yet with some globed concentrate more globed and concentrate and heady-perfect because the neglected root was planted warped and lay not dead but merely slept forgot?
- William Faulkner
Our normal waking consciousness . . . is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the flimsiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus and at a touch they are all there in all their completeness . . . No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded.
- William James
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
Sometimes the greatest kindness we could receive would be to have someone expect more from us than we do, because they see more clearly our divine heritage.
- Henry B. Eyring
We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
- Henry David Thoreau
One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.
- Henry Ford
There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
- Henry Ford
A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
- Les Brown
If you're not willing to risk you cannot grow, and if you cannot grow you cannot become your best, and if you cannot become your best, you cannot be happy.
- Les Brown
It is possible for me to live my dreams.
- Les Brown