Quotations similar to POTENTIAL - OPPORTUNITY, SELF-IMPROVEMENT
Also see POTENTIAL AFFIRMATIONS
Compiled by Che Garman
Achievement comes when you decide to live your possibilities. - Unknown
Achievement lies within the reach of those who reach beyond themselves. - William O'Hara
Aim not for what you are, but for what you could be. - Lucas Hellmer
All power that anyone can possibly use is within, waiting to be made visible, first by recognizing it, then affirming it as ours. - C Haanel
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. - Helen Keller
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are capable of greater things than we realize. - Norman Vincent Peale
Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best you can be is a goal that you can set for yourself. - Brian Lindsay
Belief in limitation is the one and only thing that causes limitation. - Thomas Troward
Belief in limits creates limited people - Tony Robbins
Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things. - Joe Paterno
Believe in possibilities. Believe in human potential. Believe in yourself and you’ll have the power to change your fate. - Kevin Ngo
By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible. - August Strindberg
Devote today to something so daring even you can't believe you're doing it. - Oprah Winfrey
Do just once what others say you can't do and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. - James R Cook
Do not be afraid to be amazing. - Andy Offutt Irwin
Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. - John Wooden
Don't limit yourself to the possible when you can reach for the impossible. - Kim Trinh
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. - Mary Kay Ash
Don't put a ceiling on yourself. - Oprah Winfrey
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. - Douglas Pagels
Every day holds the possibility of a miracle. - Elizabeth David
Every one of us has the power to create in our lives whatever it is that we choose to experience. - Clare Wilde
Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. - Jeremy Collier
Everything that you need to succeed has been given to you. - Alan Cohen
Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they can't do. They don't know what they want because they don't know what's available for them. - Zig Ziglar
Focus on your potential instead of your limitations. - Alan Loy McGinnis
Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I can move the Earth. - Archimedes
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. - Eric A Burns
If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. - Thomas Edison
If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits. - Don Ward
If you can DREAM it, you can DO it. - Walt Disney
If you want to get the best out of someone, you must look for the best that is in them. - Unknown
If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives. - Vince Lombardi
In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them. - Dr Joyce Brothers
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - Salvador Dali
It doesn’t matter where you are; you are nowhere compared to where you can go. - Bob Proctor
It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had -- to find the greatness that lies within each of us. - Barack Obama
It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God. - Mary Daly
It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney
It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. - Barack Obama
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. - Paulo Coelho
Joy comes from using your potential. - Will Schultz
Let your heart soar as high as it will go. Refuse to be average. - A. W. Tozer
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. - Les Brown
Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius. - Robert Brault
Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. - Golda Meir
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. - Jean De La Fontaine
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. - Erich Fromm
My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. - Pablo Picasso
Never limit your view of life by any past experience. - Ernest Holmes
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be. - Robert Brault
Never tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon. - Unknown
No matter how dark things are or seem to be, raise your sights and see possibilities - for they're always there. - Dom Miguel Ruiz
No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. - Dale E Turner
No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime. - James T Mccay
No one knows what he can do until he tries. - Publilius Syrus
Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential. - Howard Hendricks
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. - Bruce Barton
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. - Benjamin Disraeli
One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do. - Henry Ford
One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. - Abraham Maslow
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T S Eliot
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. - E Joseph Cossman
People have an obligation to live up to their potential. - Bette Midler
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. - Pamela Vaull Starr
Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be. - W Clement Stone
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars. - Les Brown
Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities. - Terry Josephson
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. - Thomas Merton
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems. - Gandhi
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
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
The greatest quest in life is to reach one's potential. - Mychal Wynn
The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be. - Max De Pree
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become. - Charles Du Bos
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. - Albert Schweitzer
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. - George Bernard Shaw
There are no limits except those you put on yourself. - Thomas D Willhite
There is a giant asleep within every man. When the giant awakes, miracles happen. - Frederick Faust
There is nothing that you cannot be, do, or have. - Abraham-Hicks
There isn't a person anywhere who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can. - Henry Ford
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. - Carl Bard
To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living. - Alvin Ailey
To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you’ll help them become what they are capable of becoming. - Goethe
Unless we create an environment that enables us to discover the limits of our potential, we will never know what we have inside of us. - Muhammad Yunus
We all have the extraordinary coded inside us, waiting to be released. - Jean Houston
We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. - Wilma Rudolph
We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling. - Dr Michael Beckwith
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do. - Martha Grimes
We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize. - Thich Nhat Hanh
We love our limitations! We must, because we certainly don’t want to let them go. - Jinny Ditzler
We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go. - Jim Rohn
We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. It thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If it surfaced, it would have an entirely different view. - Mao Tse-Tung
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we aspire to be is more than what we are yet less than what we are capable of. - Don Williams, Jr
What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible. - Theodore Roethke
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. - Lao Tzu
When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by the world, but by a million possible worlds. - Colin Wilson
With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high. - Ayrton Senna
Write this down: My life is full of unlimited possibilities. - Pablo Valle
You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more. - Oprah Winfrey
You can count the seeds in the apple, but not the apples in the seed. - Ken Kersey
You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there. - Norman Vincent Peale
You can have, do or be anything you want. - Joe Vitale
You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.’ - C S Lewis
You have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. - Harriet Tubman
You must believe the unbelievable, snatch the possible out of the impossible. - Don King
You see things and say, 'Why?", but I dream things and say, 'Why not? - George Bernard Shaw
You’ll never reach your potential nor enjoy life to the full if you’re not up to it physically. - David Lawrence Preston
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. - Nido Qubein
Your range of available choices - right now - is limitless. - Carl Frederick
