Quotes about Potential
Although we might settle for less, Heavenly Father won't, for he sees us as the glorious beings we are capable of becoming.
- Joseph Wirthlin
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
- Thomas Merton
Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
- Thomas Merton
To be an acorn is to have a taste for being an oak tree. Habitual grace brings with it all the Christian virtues in their seed.
- Thomas Merton
Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
- CS Lewis
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
- CS Lewis
IT is a very old saying that you never can tell what you can do until you try. The more I see of life the more I am convinced of the wisdom of that observation.
- Calvin Coolidge
So far as each individual is concerned all he can do is to take the abilities he has and make the most of them. His power over the past is gone. His power over the future depends on what he does with himself in the present. If he wishes to live and progress he must work.
- Calvin Coolidge
Unlived life is a destructive, irresistible force that works softly but inexorably.
- Carl Jung
It is never too late to be what we might have been.
- George Eliot
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us.
- George Eliot
I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don't know anything about.
- Joel Osteen