"A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible."
Kahlil Gibran
64 FAMOUS QUOTES · POTENTIAL
Read 64 famous potential quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
"A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible."
Kahlil Gibran
"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use."
Charles M. Schulz
"Leadership is communicating others' worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves."
Stephen Covey
"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already."
John Buchan
"What a man can be, he must be."
Abraham Maslow
"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible."
Soren Kierkegaard
"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do."
Pope John XXIII
"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"
Anne Frank
“Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man.”Swami Vivekananda
“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”Benjamin Franklin
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe