Quotes about Potential

People need to know that they can make a living. We are losing a lot of the best athletes to other sports at the age of seven or eight, which is exactly the time when you want to get a racket into their hand.

I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.

You're gifted to do something.

Every man has within himself a gold mine whose riches are limited only by his own industry.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

The crisis in their souls begins at the moment when they either recognize that they have tremendous potentialities not yet exercised or begin to yearn for a religious life which will make greater demands on them. Up to that moment of crisis, they have lived on the surface of their souls. The tension deepens as they realize that, like a plant, they have roots which need greater spiritual depths and branches meant for communion with the heavens above.

Our Lord has a double view of us: the way He intended us to be and the way we corresponded to His grace.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.