Potential Quotes

2329 Potential quotes by 1573 unique authors

We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as far as the… — Julian Barnes
Every love story is a potential grief story. — Julian Barnes
If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities. The relevant question isn’t ‘Is this… — Claire Messud
A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt. — Chuck Palahniuk
Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and… — Carl Jung
True happiness comes not when we get rid of all of our problems,but when we change our relationship to them, when we see our problems… — Richard Carlson
If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of. — Kazuo Ishiguro
Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have. — Charles Bukowski
Stop waiting for what you want, and start working what you have. This can turn your greatest frustration into your greatest potential innovation. If you'll… — Steven Furtick
The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its… — Paulo Coelho
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
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
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
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
Joy comes from using your potential. — William Schutz
Focus on your potential instead of your limitations. — Alan Loy McGinnis
Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back. — Princess Diana
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
Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future. — Marilyn Ferguson
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
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
Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential. — Alan Rufus
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
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
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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