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Continuous
effort--not strength
or intelligence--is
the key to
unlocking our potential.
Winston
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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 Paul XXIII
You
can count the seeds in the apple, but not the apples in the seed.
Ken
Kersey
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If
you bring forth what is within you, what you bring
forth
will save you. If you do not bring forth what is
within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
Jesus of Nazareth
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We
are, in a certain way, defined as much by our potential as by
its expression.
There is a great difference between an acorn
and a little bit of wood carved into
an acorn shape, a difference
not always readily apparent to the naked eye. The
difference
is there
even if the acorn never have the opportunity to plant itself and
become an oak. Remembering its potential changes the way in
which
we think of
the acorn and react to it. How we value it.
If an acorn were conscious,
knowing
its potential would change the way that it might think and
feel about itself.
Rachel
Naomi Remen
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When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
Margaret Drabble
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We fear our highest possibilities.
We are generally afraid
to become that which we can glimpse
in our most perfect moments,
under the most perfect conditions,
under conditions of great courage.
Abraham Maslow
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With
realization of one's own potential and self-confidence
in one's ability, one can build a better world.
The
Dalai Lama
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Nothing is too great
or too good to be true.
Do not believe that
we can imagine things
better than they
are.
In the long run,
in the
ultimate outlook, in the
eye of the Creator, the
possibilities
of existence,
the possibilities open
to us, are beyond
our imagination.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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Never
underestimate the power of dreams and the
influence of the human spirit. We are all the same
in this notion: The potential for greatness
lives within each of us.
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Everyone
has inside of him or her 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
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Most
people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a
very restricted
circle of their potential being. They make
very small use of their possible consciousness,
and of their soul's
resources in general, much like a person who, out of his or her whole
bodily organism, should get into a habit of
using and moving only his or her little finger.
William James
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The greatest
crime in the world is not developing your potential.
When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but
the world.
Roger Williams |
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No
matter what the level of your ability, you have
more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.
James
T. Mccay |
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The
potential of the average person is like a huge ocean
unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of
possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward
some great good.
Brian
Tracy |
There
are admirable potentialities
in every human being. Believe in
your strength and your truth. Learn
to repeat endlessly to yourself. "It
all depends on me."
Andre
Gide |
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be
and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann
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To
be what we are, and to
become what we are capable of
becoming is the only end of life.
Robert
Louis Stevenson |
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There's
no telling what's inside each person that we meet,
no telling the potential that each person has for growth
and for doing exceptional things. Just like the apple seed,
though, our potential is realized by creating just the right
conditions for our growth and development. Just as the
apple cannot thrive in dry, barren climes, so is it difficult
for us to thrive in situations that are not fitting.
tom
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It is very dangerous to go into eternity with
possibilities which one has
oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a
hint from
God. One must follow it.
Soren Kierkegaard |
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If seeds in
the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what
might not the heart of a human become in its long journey toward the
stars?
G.K. Chesterton |
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The future is simply infinite possibility waiting
to happen. What it waits
on is human imagination to crystallize its possibility.
Leland Kaiser |
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Most of
us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of
power. Everyone
knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him or
her which the
incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what
we ought to be, we are
only half-awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up
reserves of energy that
are ordinarily not called upon, deeper and deeper strata of
explosible material, ready
for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual
usually lives far
within his or her limits.
William James |
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Our
being is subject to all the chances of life. 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.
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Ehrlich
smiled. “Precisely.
Most people sit around, doing the same things
over and over, waiting for some sort of catalyst to come
along and turn them into fulfillment of their potential.
They don’t understand that the catalyst rarely
just comes to them—they must go out in search of it,
and they must actively try to find it.
“And
many people, as soon as they find that catalyst, they
try very hard to put out the flame, because they’re
afraid of what’s going to happen when the flame
engulfs them completely.
They have the opportunity to reach fulfillment of
their potential, yet they shy away from allowing that
potential to break free.
They want complete control over the fulfillment
of their potential, not realizing that it’s only in
the letting go of the control that they can ever find
the fulfillment.
“Still
others, sadly, spend their entire lives running from the
flame, never letting it touch them, for their fear is so
strong that they cannot live fully.
They spend their lives in darkness, fearing the
illumination of the flame that would allow them to see
through the darkness that they choose for themselves."
tom walsh
A
Lesson on Potential
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The potential of
the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new
continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be
released and
channeled toward some great good.
Brian Tracy |
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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. . .
what wine is so sparkling,
so fragrant, so intoxicating, as
possibility!
Søren Kierkegaard |
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