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POTENTIAL

1.    Ability without honor is useless. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero

2.    Anyone can count the seeds in an apple. No one can count the apples in a seed. ~Unknown

3.    Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours. ~Richard Bach

4.    Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. ~Norman Vincent Peale

5.    Continuous effort ~ not strength or intelligence ~ is the key to unlocking our potential. ~Liane Cordes

6.    Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. ~Orison Swett Marden

7.    Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.  ~Lowell Thomas

8.    Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.  ~Phillips Brooks

9.    Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.  ~John Wooden

10.  Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.  ~John Wooden

11.  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

12.  Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop~valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us. ~Charles M Schwab

13.  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!  ~Anne Frank

14.  Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.  ~Erica Jong

15.  Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. ~Richard E. Byrd

16.  Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.  ~Booker T. Washington

17.  Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.  ~Seneca

18.  For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.  ~Lao-Tzu

19.  God does not ask about our ability, but our availability. ~Unknown

20.  Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.  ~Plato

21.  Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. ~Henry Ward Beecher

22.  Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.  ~Robert Half

23.  Hatred is a louder exhibition of inability. ~Qaisar Iqbal Janjua

24.  He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.  ~Ben Jonson

25.  Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?  ~Benjamin Franklin

26.  Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential. ~Peace Pilgrim

27.  I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.  ~Bruce Jenner

28.  I believe that every person is born with talent.  ~Maya Angelou

29.  I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.  ~Les Brown

30.  I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.  ~Lou Holtz

31.  I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it.  ~William DeMille

32.  In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the stature of true potential. ~Thomas S. Monson

33.  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. ~Stephen Covey

34.  It is a denial of the divinity within us to deny our potential and possibilities. ~James E. Faust

35.  It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God ~Mary Daly

36.  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. ~ Philip Adams

37.  Lord we may know what we are, but know not what we may be. ~William Shakespeare

38.  Love not what you are, but what you may become. ~Miguel de Cervantes

39.  More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought. ~Hyman G. Rickover

40.  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. ~William James

41.  Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. ~Francis Bacon

42.  Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero

43.  No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime. ~James T Mccay

44.  Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. ~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

45.  Our aspirations are our possibilities. ~Robert Browning

46.  Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities. ~Orison Swett Marden

47.  People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

48.  People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~George Bernard Shaw

49.  Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential. ~Anthony Robbins

50.  The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem. ~Mahatma Gandhi

51.  The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become. ~Ben Herbster

52.  The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential. ~Calvin Coolidge

53.  The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try. ~Leonardo Ruiz

54.  The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the ‘buts’ you use today. ~Les Brown

55.  The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. ~Arthur C Clarke

56.  The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe. ~ Napolean Hill

57.  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

58.  The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

59.  The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has. ~ Confucius

60.  The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience. ~Les Brown Everyone has inside himself a piece of good news! The good news is that you really don't know how great you can be, how much you can love, what you can accomplish, and what your potential is! ~Anne Frank

61.  The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas; they are in the hearts and minds of men.  ~Allen E. Claxton

62.  The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite. ~George Leonard

63.  The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.  ~Booker T. Washington

64.  There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your truth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself. It all depends on me.  ~Andre Gide

65.  There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionalities or arbitrary man~made rules that are not founded on principle. ~Ralph Waldo Trine

66.  There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.  ~Henry Ford

67.  There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. ~Buckminster Fuller

68.  There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.  ~Robert Half

69.  They are able because they think they are able.  ~Virgil

70.  Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!  ~Dr. Seuss

71.  Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. ~Johann Wolfgang Von Gothe

72.  We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. ~Dale Carnegie

73.  We are hoarding potentials so great that they are just about unimaginable. ~Jack Schwartz

74.  We know what we are, but know not what we may be. ~William Shakespeare

75.  What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

76.  What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here. ~Alfred A. Montapert

77.  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. ~Tony Buzan

78.  When the impossibility has been eliminated, whatever remains, no matter how improbable... is possible. ~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

79.  Who are we? We are children of God. Our potential is unlimited. Our inheritance is sacred. May we always honor that heritage — in every thought and deed. ~Russell M. Nelson

80.  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. ~Brian Tracy

81.  You have to think big to be big. ~Claude M. Bristol

82.  Your body is an amazing creation, capable of performing great wonders, but you can destroy that miraculous machine's potential with an overdose of stress. ~Harry J Johnson

83.  Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future. ~Marilyn Ferguson