Quotes about Potential

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

I grew up in a family in which no male upstream from me had ever finished high school, much less gone to college. But I was taught that even though there was nothing I could do about what was behind me, I could change everything about what was in front of me. My working poor parents told me that I could do better.

If you feel weak, limited, ordinary, you are the best material through which God can work.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Miracles are of all sizes. And if you start believing in little miracles, you can work up to the bigger ones.

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened.

It's inevitable. If you live with other sinners, you will have conflict. The closer you are to someone, the more potential there is for conflict. Relationships are costly, but so is avoiding them.

The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.

God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it.

This A is not an expectation to live up to, but a possibility to live into.2

Despite what you've been told, you matter and you can accomplish something great.