Quotes about Potential
I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'
- Stephen Hawking
If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.
- Sean Covey
The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time?
- Reid Hoffman
Time spent with a potential leader is an investment.
- John Maxwell
With a little faith in themselves people, people can do miraculous things. But without it, they have a really tough time.
- John Maxwell
I know what I want up to the age of two hundred. Know what you want in life and go after it. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
- Ayn Rand
to settle down into a job that requires less than your mind's full capacity is to cut your motor and sentence yourself to another kind of motion: decay—that
- Ayn Rand
The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it. . . . [Man-worshipers are] those dedicated to the exaltation of man's self-esteem and the sacredness of his happiness on earth.
- Ayn Rand
At the end of the day, the circumstances of your life-- what you look like,where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home--none of that is an excuse... where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No ones written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write you own destiny.You make your own future.
- Barack Obama
Every single one of you has something you're good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That's the opportunity an education can provide.
- Barack Obama
You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want. It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!
- Barack Obama
It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
- Barbara Kingsolver