Potential Quotes

“You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.”

“When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.”

“Success is the maximum utilisation of the ability that you have.”

“It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.”

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”

“The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.”

“It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.”

“There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.”

“The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.”

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.”

“I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.”

“Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.”

“There are only 3 colours, 10 digits, and 7 notes; it's what we do with them that's important.”

“Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.”

“We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us, and if we could tear them off, we would do so.”

“With realisation of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.”

“Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.”

“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”

“To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.”

"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty!"

"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."

"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability."