“And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?”
“We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.”
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
“Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.”
“... by stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.”
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.”
“The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas; they are in the hearts and minds of men.”
“I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.”
“I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.”
“We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.”
“I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.”
“I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge.”
“By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.”
“When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.”
“Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.”
“There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.”
“What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity, intellect and resources -- to do something about them.”
“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.”
“Everyone has inside of him 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!”
“One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.”
“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.”
“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?”
“Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so.”
“Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.”
“Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery. These models of excellence will inspire you and guide you toward the fulfillment of your highest potential.”
“You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.”
“Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.”
“Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself.”
“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 man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.”