Potential Quotes

Most popular potential quotes

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. - Francis Bacon quote.
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

nature

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve. - Mary Kay Ash quote.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.

for teachers limits

We know what we are, but know not what we may be. - William Shakespeare quote.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. - Helen Keller quote.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

parenting parents advisory love

I judge people by what they might be, - not are, nor will be. - Robert Browning quote.
I judge people by what they might be, - not are, nor will be.

dealing with people

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote.
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it. - Joseph Addison quote.
I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.

education

In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others. - John Stuart Mill quote.
In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others.
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet. - Jesse Jackson quote.
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
Nine tenths of modern science is in this respect the same: it is the produce of men whom their contemporaries thought dreamers - who were laughed at for caring for what did not concern them - who, as the proverb went, 'walked into a well from looking at the stars' - who were believed to be useless, if anyone could be such. - Walter Bagehot quote.
Nine tenths of modern science is in this respect the same: it is the produce of men whom their contemporaries thought dreamers - who were laughed at for caring for what did not concern them - who, as the proverb went, 'walked into a well from looking at the stars' - who were believed to be useless, if anyone could be such.

science

Education is helping the child realize his potentialities. - Erich Fromm quote.
Education is helping the child realize his potentialities.

education

The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity not to become equal, but to become different to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.

education

The greatest value in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.

inspirational

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.
All of us do not have equal talent. But all of us have an equal opportunity to develop our talents. - John F. Kennedy quote.
All of us do not have equal talent. But all of us have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.
The biggest human temptation is ... to settle for too little. - Thomas Merton quote.
The biggest human temptation is ... to settle for too little.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. - Bertrand Russell quote.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers, by living productively.
Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters. - Jean Toomer quote.
Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.
People mistake their limitations for high standards. - Jean Toomer quote.
People mistake their limitations for high standards.
When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.
Whoever spurns what is short has not trodden on a scorpion.
— African proverb

African proverbs proverbs

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

authenticity becoming

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power. - Alfred Adler quote.
The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

teaching education

The word "educate" is closely related to the word "educe."  In the oldest pedagogic sense of the term, this meant a drawing out of a person something potential or latent. - Neil Postman quote.
The word "educate" is closely related to the word "educe."  In the oldest pedagogic sense of the term, this meant a drawing out of a person something potential or latent.

education

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost. - Bertrand Russell quote.
True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

happiness

Life is like a ten-speed bicycle.  Most of us have gears that we never use. - Charles Shultz quote.
Life is like a ten-speed bicycle.  Most of us have gears that we never use.

life

If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life.  You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities. - Abraham Maslow quote.
If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life.  You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.

possibility

The seeds of godlike power are in us still:
Gods we are, bards, saints, heroes, if we will! - Matthew Arnold quote.
The seeds of godlike power are in us still:
Gods we are, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!
Potential has a shelf-life. - Margaret Atwood quote.
Potential has a shelf-life.
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them.  There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Strength

Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves. - Steven Covey quote.
Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves.
Steven Covey The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God. - Mary Daly quote.
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
Whatever the cost in personal relationships, we discover that our highest responsibility, finally, unavoidably is the stewardship of our potential—being all that we can be. - Marilyn Ferguson quote.
Whatever the cost in personal relationships, we discover that our highest responsibility, finally, unavoidably is the stewardship of our potential—being all that we can be.

responsibility

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. - Erich Fromm quote.
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.
Erich Fromm Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
Perhaps the most devastating and damaging thing that can happen to someone is to fail to fulfill his potential. A kind of gnawing emptiness, longing, frustration, and displaced anger overwhelms people when this occurs.
I have no doubt whatever that most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.  They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. - William James quote.
I have no doubt whatever that most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.  They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.
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. - Søren Kierkegaard quote.
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.
If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick, just as your legs would wither if you never walked.  But the power of your legs is not all you would lose.  The flowing of your blood, your heart action, your whole organism would be the weaker. - Rollo May quote.
If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick, just as your legs would wither if you never walked.  But the power of your legs is not all you would lose.  The flowing of your blood, your heart action, your whole organism would be the weaker.
We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.
The struggle is to synchronize the potential being with the actual being, to make a fruitful liaison between the man of yesterday and the man of tomorrow. - Henry Miller quote.
The struggle is to synchronize the potential being with the actual being, to make a fruitful liaison between the man of yesterday and the man of tomorrow.

struggle

There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do.  The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled. - Katherine Anne Porter quote.
There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do.  The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence. - George Santayana quote.
Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
There's no heavier burden than a great potential! - Charles Shultz quote.
There's no heavier burden than a great potential!
A sobering thought, Eileen: What if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? - Jane Wagner quote.
A sobering thought, Eileen: What if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?
Jane Wagner The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. - Horace Walpole quote.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become. - Jean-Paul Sartre quote.
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.