Quotes about Potential

He looked at the granite. To be cut, he thought, and made into walls. He looked at a tree. To be split and made into rafters. He looked at a streak of rust on the stone and thought of iron ore under the ground. To be melted and to emerge as girders against the sky. These rocks, he thought, are waiting for me; waiting for the drill, the dynamite and my voice; waiting to be split, ripped, pounded, reborn; waiting for the shape my hands will give them.

she had always looked for sparks of competence, like a diamond prospector in an unpromising wasteland.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet

We are very very small. But we are profoundly capable of very very big things.

According to Feynman, a system has not just one history but every possible history.

Whether the glass is half empty or half full, you have the power to fill it up.

There has never been a more urgent time than now for you to seek to maximize your potential for achieving greater balance in your life.

The greatest gift life can give you today is the promise of tomorrow.

We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.

Kids don't see hate in their eyes. They see the world, and living in it to the best of their abilities. And that's where love comes from for me.

I love America not for what she is, but for what she can become.

Until you love yourself, you will never know who you really are and you won't know what you're really capable of