Quotes about Potential

IT is a very old saying that you never can tell what you can do until you try. The more I see of life the more I am convinced of the wisdom of that observation.

So far as each individual is concerned all he can do is to take the abilities he has and make the most of them. His power over the past is gone. His power over the future depends on what he does with himself in the present. If he wishes to live and progress he must work.

Unlived life is a destructive, irresistible force that works softly but inexorably.

It is never too late to be what we might have been.

If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don't know anything about.

In esse I am nothing; in posse I am everything.

Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting to change all the tenor of our lives.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.