Potential Quotes
2329 quotes by 1573 authors
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The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty…
— Helen Keller
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It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even…
— Pema Chodron
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While privacy strengthens all our bonds, secrecy weakens and damages connection. Lerner points out that we do not usually "know the emotional costs of keeping…
— Bell Hooks
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Back when I was on my first assignment as a seeker, I was way out in Arizona. Brought in this kid named Clarisse.†“Clarisse?†“Sibling…
— Rick Riordan
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Joy comes from using your potential.
— William Schutz
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Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.
— Alan Loy McGinnis
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Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.
— Princess Diana
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We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate... Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realising our potential,…
— Christopher Reeve
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Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
— Marilyn Ferguson
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Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind.…
— Ashley Smith
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Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and…
— Amelia Barr
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Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential.
— Alan Rufus
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One morning you will awake to find that you are the person you dreamed of doing what you wanted to do simply because you had…
— Donna Levin
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It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him a trace of…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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In my mind, the purpose of education is to enable human beings to develop to their full potential, intellectually and spiritually. That means that students…
— Unknown Author
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The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization…
— John C. Maxwell
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School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion on a daily…
— John Taylor Gatto
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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was never before possible…
— Barbara Marx Hubbard
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Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds
— Paul Valery
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