Quotes about Potential

Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

America is too great for small dreams.

Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.

If we're free to dare — and we are — if we're free to give — and we are — then we're free to shape the future and have within our grasp all that we dream the future will be.

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility

Genius never desires what does not exist.

The tedium vitae so constant in antiquity was due to the fact that the outstanding individual was what others could not be ; the inspiration of modern times will be that any man who finds himself, religiously speaking, has only achieved what every one can achieve .

However, a self, every instant it exists, is in process of becoming, for the self [potentially] does not actually exist, it is only that which it is to become. In so far as the self does not become itself, it is not its own self; but not to be one's own self is despair.

A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.