Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Potential

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.
J. P. Morgan (1837–1913) American Financier, Philanthropist, Art Collector

Say no to the drug of gradualness. It was Martin Luther King, Jr., who spoke out strongly against making slow changes. Either we risk or we don’t, he said. Either we change or we don’t. There’s no acceptable middle ground because it lulls us into complacency. Lasting changes rarely occur when we ease our way into the future. They come when we leap. The leap themselves can be small or large. Once we take action, we see things differently and for many of us there’s no going back.
Robert Cooper (b.1947) British Diplomat

Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone’s actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure someone’s actual or potential intelligence. We had one dimension of mental ability along which we could array everyone… The whole concept has to be challenged; in fact, it has to be replaced.
Howard Gardner (b.1943) American Cognitive Psychologist

If I had some idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Richard DeVos (1926–2018) American Businessman, Philanthropist

It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He’s aware of where he is and what he’s doing, but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of rightness—it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.
Arnold Palmer (b.1929) American Sportsperson

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end.
Anonymous

Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering
Abraham Maslow (1908–70) American Psychologist, Academic, Humanist

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.
Bruce Lee (1940–73) American Martial Artist, Actor, Philosopher

It takes great goals to lead us out of our everyday limits into accomplishing more than we ever thought we could or would.
Robert Cooper (b.1947) British Diplomat

The riches of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It’s cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.
Richard DeVos (1926–2018) American Businessman, Philanthropist

Two people can do anything as long as one of them is the Lord.
Indian Proverb

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. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!
Soren Kierkegaard (1813–55) Danish Philosopher, Theologian

Rich people see opportunities. Poor people see obstacles. Rich people see potential growth. Poor people see potential loss. Rich people focus on rewards. Poor focus on the risks.
T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author

Are you closer right now to where you want to be than you were a half-hour ago?
Robert Cooper (b.1947) British Diplomat

No one knows what he can do till he tries.
Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer

Say YES to life. Participate. Move. Act. Write. Read. Sign up. Take a stand. Or do whatever it takes for you. Get involved in the process. As Rollo May wrote in Man’s Search for Himself: “Every organism has one and only one central need in life, to fulfill its own potentialities”.
Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
Joseph Campbell (1904–87) American Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer

If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Unknown

We have more than we use.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Look and you will find it—what is unsought will go undetected.
Sophocles (495–405 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist

Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
John Wooden (1910–2010) American Sportsperson

To excel means to reach beyond the best you have ever given because doing so matters to you personally, for its own sake. It means to run your own race—as an individual, team, or organization. To excel is to know your greatest strengths and passions, and to emphasize them while honestly admitting and managing your weaknesses.
Robert Cooper (b.1947) British Diplomat

When people say to me: “How do you do so many things?” I often answer them, without meaning to be cruel: “How do you do so little?” It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don’t. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
Phillip Adams (b.1939) Australian Broadcaster, Writer, Filmmaker

Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Therefore, give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths. Remain steadfast… and one day you will build something that endures, something worthy of your potential.
Epictetus (55–135) Ancient Greek Philosopher

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 (b.1944) American Author, Motivational Speaker

There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.
Bernard M. Baruch (1870–1965) American Financier, Economic Consultant

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.
Les Brown

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.
Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) American Short-Story Writer, Novelist

A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such speed. It feels an impulsion … this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond the horizons.
Richard Bach (b.1936) American Novelist, Aviator

I’ve discovered I’ve got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
Steven Spielberg (b.1946) American Film Director, Screenwriter, Film Producer, Businessperson

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