Quotes about Potential

You stand in a puddle when I would give you an ocean...

Everything had seemed possibile. One could laugh at daydreams, but so long as you had the capacity to daydream, there was a chance that you might develop some of the qualities which you dreamed. It was like the religious discipline: words however emptily repeated can in time for a habit, a kind of unnoticed sediment at the bottom of the mind - until one day to you own surprise you find yourself acting on the belief you thought you didn't believe in.

We can acknowledge that while all good things in creation come from God (James 1:17), all evil in creation comes from wills other than that of God. God allows evil to take place because he desires humans to have the potential to love, and for this they must be free. But in no sense does he will their evil.

The greatest miracle of omnipotence was in creating beings who had the potential to resist it.

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.

It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.

The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it.

God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be.

It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em, said Captain Jim. When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got souls that'll live in other worlds. You couldn't hardly believe there was life in them tiny things, some no bigger than grains of dust, let alone colour and scent, if you hadn't seen the miracle, could you?

There is some good in every person if you can find it. It is a teacher's duty to find and develop it.

I think there are two kinds of TRUE THINGS-- true things that ARE, and true things that ARE NOT, but MIGHT be.