Potential Quotes

We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
Mary McLeod Bethune

When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.
Charles M. Schwab

Many people have so much more potential than where they are right now.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

The greatest quest in life is to reach one's potential.
Mychal Wynn

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Joy comes from using your potential.
Will Schultz

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
Rusty Berkus

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.
Bill Bradley

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 crime in the world is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.
Roger Williams

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
Marilyn Ferguson

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Eddie Robinson

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself,but the world.
Roger Williams

Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth.
William W. Purkey

People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader's job is to help people have vision of their potential.
Roger Porter

Focus on your potential instead of your limitations
Alan Loy McGinnis

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.







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