Quotes about Potential

Art is not a gift which a few people are given, but rather it is a gift which most people throw away.

Passion is born when you catch a glimpse of your true potential.

What is possible for me is possible for you.

All our actions—eating, drinking, sleeping, working—are thus potentially Christ's actions. But this potential must be actualized. Instead of a mindless drifting through the insignificant, apparently superficial and nonreligious events of the day, our passive union with Christ can be made active by creative acts of the will, intelligence and imagination.

Whatever happens to me in life, I must believe that somewhere, In the mess or madness of it all, There is a sacred potential—

Nuclear man is a man who has lost naïve faith in the possibilities of technology and is painfully aware that the same powers that enable man to create new life styles carry the potential for self-destruction.

Every person is different and has a different contribution to make. No one is destined to fail.

The soil, it appears, is suited to the seed, for it has sent its radicle downward, and it may now send its shoot upward also with confidence. Why has man rooted himself thus firmly in the earth, but that he may rise in the same proportion into the heavens above?

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried. Whatever have been thy failures hitherto, "be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to thee what thou hast left undone?

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.'