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• Potential: Having or showing the capacity to develop into something in the future. Oxford Dictionary
• Potential: Possible when the necessary conditions exist. Cambridge Dictionary
• Potential: Capable of being or becoming. Dictionary.com
• Potential: Possibility; potentiality.  Dictionary.com
• Potential: Existing in possibility:  capable of development into actuality.  Merriam Webster
• Possibility,  Growth,  Learning,  Power,  Transformation

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You are unbounded potential waiting to be realised

• We are unbounded potential waiting to be realized. Michael Bernard Beckwith
• No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime. James T. McCay
• Turn within, and there you will find your Godhead. The moment you find it you will come to a conscious realization of this great creative force with-in you. That great force, that untapped power, that dynamic something, that unconquerable soul within you is yearning for expression. It is asking for recognition. It is begging for an opportunity to lift you up and aid you to greater achievements. This great creative force within you is an imprisoned giant which when unleashed can carry you on to a success undreamed of. Earl Prevette
• We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released. Jean Houston
• There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into Light. Rumi
• 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
• Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. Wilma Rudolph
• There is a giant asleep within every man. When that giant awakes, miracles happen. Frederick Faust
• What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling. Dr Michael Beckwith
• If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite. William Blake
• 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
• We are hoarding potentials so great that they are just about unimaginable. Jack Schwartz
• The utimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite. George Leonard
• There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. Ronald Reagan
• Our essential nature is pure potentiality, infinite creativity, pure joy, pure knowledge, infinite silence, perfect balance, simplicity and bliss. Deepak Chopra
• Everyone has inside of him or her 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
• I am not a has-been. I am a will be. Lauren Bacall

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You have access to great untapped powers within you

• There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become. Orison Swett Marden
• 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
• Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers, powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing, forces that would revolutionise his life if roused and put into action. Orison Swett
• I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. There we go beyond those limited and limiting patterns of body, emotions, volition, and understanding that have been keeping us in dry- dock. Instead we become available to our capacity for a larger life in body, mind, and spirit. In this state we know great torrents of delight. Jean Houston
• All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. Swami Vivekananda
• No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power. James Cash Penney
• It is within the power of every man to become great. Wallace D. Wattles
• Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. Richard E. Byrd
• You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind. Darwin P. Kingsley
• Once you understand how powerful you are within, you exponentially increase the power and potentiality of everything outside of you. Steve Maraboli
• Think of the world you carry within you. Rainer Maria Rilke
• Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him or her which the incitements of that day do not call forth.  Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half-awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon, deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep.  The human individual usually lives far within his or her limits.  William James
• The treasure within,  Power

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We are all functioning at a fraction of our capacity

• We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime. Herbert Otto
• 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 person who, out of his or her whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his or her little finger. William James
• 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
• It doesn’t matter where you are; you are nowhere compared to where you can go. Bob Proctor
• We have more than we use. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use. William James
• 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. Sir Hugh Walpole

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You are capable of so much more than you think or realise

• If we did all the things that we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. Thomas Edison
• 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
• There isn’t a person anywhere who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can. Henry Ford
• You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. A. A. Milne
• We are all capable of much more than we think we are. Lao Tzu
• There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps, for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less. Kurt Hahn
• Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do. Dale Carnegie
• We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark, with results undreamed of even by those who thought they knew us best. Joseph Farrell
• No matter how far a person can go, the horizon is still way beyond you. Zora Neale Hurston
• 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
• Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential. Peace Pilgrim

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There is great beauty in you waiting to be born

• If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of a human become in its long journey toward the stars? K. Chesterton
• No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. Dale E Turner
• Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty? Sara Teasdale
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We have the potential to be and create all we want

• 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
• Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be. W. Clement Stone

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Awakening potential is the whole point of being alive

• To want to be what one can be is purpose in life. Cynthia Ozick
• To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life. Robert Louis Stevenson
• To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living. Alvin Ailey
• Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. Erich Fromm
• The human goal: to actualize oneself. Bruce Lee
• A good life is one where you develop your strengths, realize your potential, and become what it is in your nature to become. Jonathan Haidt
• The greatest quest in life is to reach one’s potential. Mychal Wynn
• Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny. Paul Tillich
• The real point of being alive is to evolve into the whole person you were intended to be. Oprah Winfrey
• What a man can be, he must be. Abraham Maslow
• You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more. Oprah Winfrey
• What I know for sure is this: You are built not to shrink down to less, but to blossom into more. To be more splendid. To be more extraordinary. To use every moment to fill yourself up. Oprah Winfrey
• 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
• Every organism has one and only one central need in life, to fulfill its own potentialities. Rollo May
• In the way I see it, the full glory of what it means to BE ALIVE only begins to reveal itself when we are actually on the edge of our own potential. Andrew Cohen
• Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you can potentially be. Erich Fromm
• 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. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. Ashley Smith
• Live fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating and adventuring. The actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime. Herbert Otto
• The whole nature of the game is to see how far we can go–and to express our potential so we create the lives of our dreams. And elevate the world in the process. Robin Sharma
• Man is not born perfect. He is born as a process. He has to seek and search and explore. He has to become, because his being arises only through becoming. Becoming is his being. He can only be if he is on the move. Evolution is intrinsic to man’s nature, evolution is his very soul. And those who take themselves for granted remain unfulfilled. Those who think they are born complete remain unevolved. Then the seed remains the seed. It never becomes a tree and never knows the joys of spring and the sunshine and the rain, and the ecstasy of bursting into millions of flowers. That explosion is the fulfilment, that explosion is what existence is all about—exploding into millions of flowers. When the potential becomes the actual, only then is man fulfilled. Osho
• To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life. Robert Louis Stevenson
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Potential is a seed and we are its gardeners

• A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. Kahlil Gibran
• You can count the seeds in the apple, but not the apples in the seed. Ken Kersey
• Just like the apple seed, our potential is realized by creating just the right conditions for our growth and development. Just as the apple cannot thrive in dry, barren climes, so is it difficult for us to thrive in situations that are not fitting.  Tom Walsh
• A day is Eternity’s seed, and we are its Gardeners. Erika Harris
• From the seed grows a root, then a sprout; from the sprout, the seedling leaves; from the leaves, the stem; around the stem, the branches; at the top, the flower. . . We cannot say that the seed causes the growth, nor that the soil does. We can say that the potentialities for growth lie within the seed, in mysterious life forces, which, when properly fostered, take on certain forms. M.C. Richards

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Become all you are capable of

• Let each become all that he was created capable of being. Thomas Carlyle
• Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man is to become more than himself. Sri Aurobindo
• Aim not for what you are, but for what you could be. Lucas Hellmer
• 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
• People have an obligation to live up to their potential. Bette Midler
• Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential. Howard Hendricks
• It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot
• How much longer will you go on letting your energy sleep? How much longer are you going to stay oblivious of the immensity of yourself? Osho

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Awakening potential is your gift to the world

• The greatest crime 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 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
• With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world. The Dalai Lama
• The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems. Mahatma Gandhi
• The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself. Wallace Wattles
• Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got. Steven Pressfield
• Awakening,  Awaken to who you really are

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Awakening potential is a true measure of success

• Success is… knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others. John C. Maxwell
• The only honest measure of your success is what you are doing compared to your true potential. Paul J. Meyer
• The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. Eddie Robinson
• True success isn’t just about winning but about testing yourself, putting in effort and expanding your own horizons – reaching your own personal potential. Jane Fleming
• Everything that you need to succeed has been given to you. Alan Cohen
• You may be better than the rest, but you are not a success until you have made the effort to become the best you can be. John Wooden
• Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. John Wooden
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Awakening potential brings fulfilment, happiness and joy

• When the potential becomes the actual, only then is man fulfilled. Osho
• Fulfilment: Satisfaction or happiness as a result of fully developing one’s abilities or character. Oxford Dictionary
• How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become – to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being. Antoine de Saint- Exupery
• What is it we are questing for? It is the fulfillment of that which is potential in each of us. Questing for it is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself. There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. Joseph Campbell
• Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self- actualization. It refers to man’s desire for self-fulfilment, namely to the tendency for him to become actually in what he is potentially: to become everything one is capable of becoming. Abraham Maslow
• The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live. Bertrand Russell
• Joy comes from using your potential. Will Schultz
• Live the wonderful life that is in you.  Oscar Wilde
• Happiness doesn’t come from living a lukewarm life, always wondering what could have been. Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up to our fullest potential. T. Harv Eker
• The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit. Jim Rohn
• Fulfilment,  Happiness,  Joy

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Awakening potential brings achievement

• Achievement comes when you decide to live your possibilities.
• Achievement lies within the reach of those who reach beyond themselves. William O’Hara
• Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. Golda Meir
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Awakening potential is what greatness is all about

• Every human being has the potential for greatness. Bo Bennett
• Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive. Eric A. Burns
• 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
• Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. Wilma Rudolph
• You were born to greatness. Having a life mission implies that that world has need of you. In fact, the world has been preparing you to fill this need with one incredible life experience after another. Finding and fulfilling your potential will lead you to your highest experience in this life. Believe it, you have a mission. It is the gateway to your personal greatness. Greg Anderson
• Don’t accept a life of mediocrity when you hold such infinite potential within the fortress of your mind. Dare to tap into your greatness. Robin Sharma
• There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one’s maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity. Buck Rodgers
• You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness.  You were born with wings.  You are not meant for crawling, so don’t.  You have wings.  Learn to use them and fly.  Rumi
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• My own experience is that everybody is born with a certain talent, and unless he lives that talent to its fullest, something in him will remain missing. He will go on feeling that somehow something is not there that should be. Osho
• If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.  Jesus of Nazareth
• It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. C. S. Lewis
• One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. Abraham Maslow
• You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.’ C S Lewis
• The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become. Ben Herbster
• If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick. William James
• Potential has a shelf life. Margaret Atwood
• If you set out to be less than you are capable of, you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life. Jim Locke
• Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. Stephen Covey
• Much of the world’s depression and discontent… can ultimately be traced to our unused energy, our untapped potential. George Leonard
• Pain is the result of potential denied. Robin Sharma
• To accept life anywhere below our fullest potential is to be living in the gap, blindly accepting ‘what is’ without ever deeply considering ‘what could be.’ Shawn Phillips
• Boredom is your mind and body’s way of telling you you’re not living up to your potential. Hal Sparks

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Convention and conformity

• One of the biggest ways we limit our potential and deny our genius is following The Herd and modeling The Crowd. Robin Sharma
• The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential. Tama Kieves
• In 12 years of education the most important lesson I have learned is that what we see as “normal” living is truly a travesty of our potential. In a society so governed by superficiality, appearances, and petty economics, dreams are more real than anything anything in the “real world”. Refuse normalcy. Stay free of materialism. Dominic Owen Mallary
• You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or a path, it is someone else’s path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else’s way, you are not going to realize your potential. Joeseph Campbell
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Comparison with others

• Comparison is crazy-making. It stamps on potential and truth and all the good things you might already have going for you if you weren’t so busy shadow-boxing with the people who you think have it better. Danielle LaPorte
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Making excuses

• I have been thinking about the idea of excuses for some time now. They are like menacing demons that creep into our lives without us knowing. They are roadblocks, white lies to ourselves, a reason to set the bar lower, and self-justification for achieving less than our full potential. Lorii Myers
• The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them. Steve Maraboli
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Negativity

• Negativity sucks away energy. If part of the negativity stems from your attitude or perspective, commit yourself at the beginning of each day and each activity to find something positive in yourself and in others around you. If the people around you are negative, and you can’t change that, either remove yourself from the situation or view it simply as one obstacle you face in pursuing your own potential. Stay focused on your own goals and make the best of the situation. Terry Orlick
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Incessant judgement

• Non-judgement creates silence in your mind. Judgment is the constant evaluation of things as right or wrong, good or bad. When you are constantly evaluating, classifying, labeling, analyzing, you create a lot of turbulence in your internal dialogue. This turbulence constricts the flow of energy between you and the field of pure potentiality. You literally squeeze the “gap” between thoughts. When you squeeze the gap, you squeeze your connection to the field of pure potentiality and infinite creativity. Deepak Chopra
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Shame

• Shame is the leading cause of death of the potential for actualizing giftedness. Maria Rocamora
• We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. John Lennon
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Short-sightedness

• The biggest defect we human beings have is our short-sightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. Mitch Albom

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Fear

• Though fear is literally an evolutionary gift meant to sharpen your senses and energize you during times of great stress, it can nonetheless become a barrier that prevents you from fulfilling your potential by causing you to miss out on rewarding, life-changing experiences. Madisyn Taylor
• If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. Robert H. Schuller
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Self-doubt

• We all have tremendous potential, and we all are blessed with gifts. Yet, the one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt. It is not so much the lack of technical information that holds us back, but more the lack of self- confidence. Robert Kiyosaki
• You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential. Steve Garvey
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More enemies of potential

• If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.” Dave Barry
• The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. Thomas Merton

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Awakening your potential is about becoming more of who and what you are

• Simply put, all that is required to live up to our highest potential is already inside us awaiting our conscious activation. Living up to our potential is about becoming more ourselves, more of who and what we are as awakened beings. Michael Bernard Beckwith

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Awakening your potential sometimes requires letting go of what you are

• We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are. Oprah Winfrey
• 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
• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. Lao Tzu
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Awaken your potential by believing in yourself and what is possible

• 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
• Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. Bruce Barton
• You must believe the unbelievable, snatch the possible out of the impossible. Don King
• Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself. Roy T. Bennett
• The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try. Sir Ken Robinson
• 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. . . what wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility! Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.  Soren Kierkegaard
• It is time we recognized that belief is not a private matter; it has never been merely private. In fact, beliefs are scarcely more private than actions are, for every belief is a fount of action in potential. Sam Harris
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Awaken your potential by creating the right conditions for your growth

• There’s no telling what’s inside each person that we meet, no telling the potential that each person has for growth and for doing exceptional things. Just like the apple seed, though, our potential is realized by creating just the right conditions for our growth and development.  Just as the apple cannot thrive in dry, barren climes, so is it difficult for us to thrive in situations that are not fitting.  Tom Walsh
• 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
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Awake your potential by hitching yourself to something bigger than yourself

• It’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. Barack Obama

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Awaken your potential by pushing your talents and abilities to the limit …

• Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius. Robert Brault
• Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T S Eliot
• We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go. Jim Rohn
• In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them. Dr Joyce Brothers
• Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential. Winston Churchill
• Ability and increased potential grow hand in hand. As we grow, as we move, as we learn, the cells of our nervous systems connect in highly complex patterns of neural pathways. Carla Hannaford
• You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. Ziglar
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… and focusing and developing your strengths

• I’ve known people who thought that reaching their potential would come from shoring up their weaknesses. But do you know what happens when you spend all your time working on your weaknesses and never developing your strengths? If you work really hard, you might claw your way all the way to mediocrity! But you’ll never get beyond it. John C. Maxwell
• A good life is one where you develop your strengths, realize your potential, and become what it is in your nature to become. Jonathan Haidt
• It is in your area of strength that you have the most potential to grow. Graeme Myburgh
• The most responsible, the most challenging, and, in the sense of being true to yourself, the most honorable thing to do is face up to the strength potential inherent in your talents and then find ways to realize it. Donald O. Clifton
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Awaken your potential by stretching your comfort zone …

• Of course, we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done. A.E. Hotchner
• 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
• You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential. Steve Garvey
• Comfort kills! If your goal in life is to be comfortable, I guarantee two things. First, you will never be rich. Second, you will never be happy. Happiness doesn’t come from living a lukewarm life, always wondering what could have been. Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up to our fullest potential. T. Harv Eker
• To uncover your true potential, you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them. Picabo Street
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… thereby increasing your confidence

• Genuine confidence is a way of thinking about yourself and your abilities. Confidence is your perception of your own potential; it’s a kind of long-term thinking that powers you through the obstacles and tough times, helping you solve problems and putting you in the way of success. John Eliot, Ph.D.
• … by stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence. Michael J. Gelb
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Awaken your potential by letting go of your limitations

• Do just once what others say you can’t do and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. James R Cook
• 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
• Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities. Terry Josephson
• Don’t put a ceiling on yourself. Oprah Winfrey
• Focus on your potential instead of your limitations. Alan Loy McGinnis
• If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits. Don Ward
• It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. Les Brown
• Never limit your view of life by any past experience. Ernest Holmes
• Never tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
• The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. Albert Schweitzer
• There are no limits except those you put on yourself. Thomas D Willhite
• We love our limitations! We must, because we certainly don’t want to let them go. Jinny Ditzler
• If you limit your choice only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. Robert Fritz
• The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today. Les Brown
• Believe there are no limits but the sky. Miguel de Cervantes
• Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Richard Bach
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Awaken your potential by letting go of fear

• We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under the most perfect conditions, under conditions of great courage.  Abraham Maslow
• Do not be afraid to be amazing. Andy Offutt Irwin
• Your major battles with fear are not outside you; they lurk inside, in the caverns of the psyche, in the arena of psychological survival and dark imaginings, where fear shape- shifts into subtle guises such as self- doubt, insecurity, lack of confidence, shyness, inhibition, timidity—a reluctance to assert, express, or even be yourself. Whatever form fear takes, your willingness to face it squarely will determine your fate in the high country of human potential. Dan Millman
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Awaken your potential by opening your mind and imagination to what could be

• The biggest defect we human beings have is our short-sightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. Mitch Albom
• Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be. Robert Brault
• Look at things… as they can be. David Schwartz
• Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities. Orison Swett Marden
• Most people see what is, and never see what can be. Albert Einstein
• I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past. I can become my own creator. Stephen Covey
• Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us. Stephen Covey
• To liberate the potential of your mind, body and soul, you must first expand your imagination. You see, things are always created twice: first in the workshop of the mind and then, and only then, in reality. I call this process ‘blueprinting’ because anything you create in your outer world began as a simple blueprint in your inner world. Robin Sharma
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Awaken your potential by celebrating excellence

• 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
• The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. Eddie Robinson
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Awaken your potential by risking to make an attempt

• What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? Robert H. Schuller
• No one knows what he can do till he tries. Publilius Syrus
• 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
• Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. Mary Kay Ash
• Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being. Charles Dudley Warner
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Awaken your potential by committing to being truly yourself

• 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
• 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
• If you follow someone else’s way, you are not going to realize your potential. Joseph Campbell
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Awaken your potential by thinking differently; tapping into your innate creativity

• To realize our true creative potential – in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities – we need to think differently about ourselves and towards each other. We must learn to be creative. Ken Robinson
• The utimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite. George Leonard
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Awakening your potential requires looking after yourself physically

• You’ll never reach your potential nor enjoy life to the full if you’re not up to it physically. David Lawrence Preston
• 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
• Your body, the only one you will ever have, is the foundation of your life. And it’s either an anchor limiting your freedom and potential or a source of radiant energy, vitality and joy, elevating your life and the lives of those around you. Shawn Phillips
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Awaken your potential by starting where you are with what you have

• Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater. Mary Manin Morrissey
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Awaken your potential by settling for nothing less than your best

• 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
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Awaken potential by embracing difficulties and challenges

• Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart. Myla Kabat-Zinn
• A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities. Charles de Gaulle
• Face new challenges, seize new opportunities, test your resources against the unknown and in the process, discover your own unique potential. John Amatt
• Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart. Myla Kabat-Zinn
• Essence loves undesirable experiences as much as it loves desirable ones, sometimes even more because of their potential for growth. Gina Lake
• In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it. Norman Vincent Peale
• There are infinite possibilities within every challenge. My seeds of potential are watered when I say yes to me. I am growing more powerful with every storm I endure. Darren R. Weissman
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Awaken potential by doing what you love

• When we don’t enjoy what we do, we only nick the surface of our potential. Dennis Wholey
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Awaken potential by nurturing a growth mindset

• How are you approaching your potential? From the fixed mindset where any given performance is a sign of ultimate potential? Or from the growth mindset where you know that, with diligent, patient, persistent and playful work we can do amazing things over the long run? Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D.
• People with the growth mindset know that it takes time for potential to flower. Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D.
• With a growth mindset, we embrace challenging opportunities because we know that we can only reach our highest potential by consistently playing at our edges and that the only failure is not really going for it and learning along the way. Carol S. Dweck
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Awaken potential by having a purpose

• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. … Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.  Barack Obama
• Do you know why most people sleep so much?” “Why?” “Because they really don’t have anything else to do. Those who rise with the sun all have one thing in common.” “Insanity?” “Very funny. No, they all have a purpose that fans the flames of their inner potential. Robin Sharma
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Awaken potential by embracing diversity

• If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. Margaret Mead
• Great achievements are not born from a single vision but from the combination of many distinctive viewpoints. Diversity challenges assumptions, opens minds, and unlocks our potential to solve any problems we may face.
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Awaken potential by embracing uncertainty

• Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential. Michael J. Gelb
• When nothing is sure, everything is possible. Margaret Drabble
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Awaken potential by tapping into your subconscious

• Neuroscientists estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your creative potential. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wisest people regularly consult that smartest part. You can, too, by making space for incubation. So, how do the greatest minds do this? We rarely get our best ideas when we’re officially “at work. If we want to enter the domain of genius, we’ve got to take time for solitude and relaxation. Michael Gelb
• You are in possession of one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, one that has virtually unlimited potential not only to change your life, but also to change your world. Shelly Carson
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Awaken potential by defining yourself not by who you are but by what you can be

• I am not myself; I am the potential of myself. Anna Deavere Smith
• We are, in a certain way, defined as much by our potential as by its expression. There is a great difference between an acorn and a little bit of wood carved into an acorn shape, a difference not always readily apparent to the naked eye.  The difference is there even if the acorn never have the opportunity to plant itself and become an oak.  Remembering its potential changes the way in which we think of the acorn and react to it.  How we value it.  If an acorn were conscious, knowing its potential would change the way that it might think and feel about itself.  Rachel Naomi Remen
• What you can become you are already. Hebbel Friedrich
• We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being. Henry David Thoreau
• Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have. Jean- Paul Sartre
• We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do. Martha Grimes
• We know what we are, but know not what we may be. William Shakespeare
• Define yourself not by who you are but by what you can be. Anthony Lambert

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Awaken potential by focusing on your potential, not your limitations

• Focus on your potential instead of your limitations. Alan Loy McGinnis
• Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.  Pope John XXIII

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Awaken potential through introspection and mental stillness

• A man who realizes the potential of his mind by means of introspection and contemplation, he does not lack self- confidence. He has control over his mind and he is able to realize its full potential. Sam Veda
• But first, you have to practice stillness. Stillness is the first requirement of manifesting your desires, because in stillness lies your connection to the field of pure potentiality that can orchestrate an infinity of details for you. Deepak Chopra
• I get in touch with the power of pure potentiality by taking time each day to be silent, to just be. I take time each day to commune with nature. I will practice non-judgement. Today I shall judge nothing that occurs. Deepak Chopra
• I see the potential for a new world being born in front of me and all around me, and I feel the only way to bring that potential into being is to know myself. Gary Zukav
• In the place of stillness, rises potential. From the place of potential, emerges possibility. Where there is possibility, there is choice. And where there is choice, there is freedom. Gabriella Goddard
• Just a little relaxation, just a little looking inwards, and the doors of immense potentialities open up. You are no more a beggar. Without conquering the world, you have conquered the whole universe. Just conquer yourself. Osho
• Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves. Aldous Huxley
• When the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are full of cherry blossoms, a new presence, a new fragrance. Osho
• Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness within you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality. Deepak Chopra
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Awaken potential through spiritual growth; by raising of your level of consciousness

• There is far more spiritual potential within than most people realize. The potential is so great that to define it in words would be impossible. Belsebuub
• With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse. Deepak Chopra
• There is a well of infinity hidden within each Soul. There you will find an incredible energy source, beyond your broadest understanding. It is Light and Healing. The Force of Nature. The essence of Love. Royce Addington
• Certainly, the vision of the spiritual nature of man and the universe brings the conviction that the human potential is unlimited and that we stand at the threshold over which a quantum leap in consciousness is possible. George Trevelyan
• If one wishes a life of abundance, development of the soul is of the utmost import. By fulfilling the souls potential, we celebrate the divine spirit, raise the collective consciousness and fuel the fires of transformation. Micheal Teal
• Most individuals who are deeply talented are driven by a sense of urgency, an ecstatically urgent sense that “I must bring into life this potential that I see and experience in the depths of my own being. This must come through me.” If we get to know them, we will usually find that truly great human beings are driven by a passion that transcends their separate self- sense. And in the way I understand it, the highest expression of this creative impulse is the urge to evolve at the level of consciousness itself. Andrew Cohen
• Most people live … in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion 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 only his little finger. William James
• On the path to love, impossibilities are resolved by turning non-love into love. With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse. Deepak Chopra
• Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. William James
• The inspiration to evolve spiritually is already a manifestation of the presence of God within, and it’s certainly indicative of good karma. Just to want to know truth, to evolve, to improve oneself, to become a better person, to fulfill one’s potential – those are all inspirations. And the person doesn’t make them up; they just come to them. It’s like an innate desire to fulfill your potential. David. R. Hawkins
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Awaken potential by waking up to your divine nature

• It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God. Mary Daly
• And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words? Henry Miller
• It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities. James E. Faust
• Acknowledging our inner divinity as a step on the path to embodying it is not to be confused with narcissism or individualism, since we must further admit that everyone’s divine birthright is the same limitless creational potential of unconditional love. Sol Luckman
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Appreciate the power of relationships to awaken potential

• It boils down to this: Are you willing to have your relationships be a pathway to fully revealing yourself and your potential?  If your answer is yes, real intimacy can be yours on a daily basis.  Gay Hendricks
• Trust and faith brings joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential. Joyce Meyer
• If you both agree at a conscious level that the purpose of your relationship is to create an opportunity, not an obligation—an opportunity for growth, for full self-expression, for lifting your lives to their highest potential, for healing every false thought or small idea you ever had about you, and for ultimate reunion with God through the communion of your two souls—if you take that vow instead of the vows you’ve been taking—the relationship has begun on a very good note. Neale Donald Walsch
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Every person has a right to fulfil their potential

• 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. Ashley Montagu
• Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential. Aung San Suu Kyi

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Help others to awaken their potential …

• 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 Goethe
• 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
• 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. Rusty Berkus
• Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.  Princess Diana
• We empower others by allowing them to be themselves. This means we react to people without preconditions and preconceptions. We accept people for who they are and do not force them to conform to our needs and expectations. In doing so, we empower others to express their full potential as well. Deepak Chopra
• Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer. Ken Robinson

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… by recognising the potential in them …

• If you want to get the best out of someone, you must look for the best that is in them.
• Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others. Thomas Carlyle
• Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth. William W. Purkey
• The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness. Robert F. Kennedy

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… and nurturing it through the power of love and encouragement

• Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true. Viktor Frankl
• The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul. John Welwood
• In caring I experience the other as having potentialities and the need to grow. In helping the other grow, I do not impose my own direction; rather, I allow the direction of the other’s growth to guide what I do, to help determine how I am to respond. Milton Mayerhoff
• The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential.  If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom, and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams.  Sidney Madwed
• The principle of affirmation of others is that of treating people as proactive individuals who have great potential. Stephen Covey
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Especially awaken and nurture the potential of children

• Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world. Maria Montessori
• I’m no more a wonder than anyone. And that’s what makes the world magical. Every baby’s a seed of wonder – that gets watered or it doesn’t. Dean Koontz
• The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation. Ray Lyman Wilbur
• We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends. Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)
• We have to get children to understand that not only do they have this incredible uniqueness, but they also have something that sometimes we forget about. They are also potentiality.  They are much more undiscovered than they are discovered.  And there’s the wonder of it.  It doesn’t matter where they are, they’re only just beginning, and the big magical trip of life is digging it all out and discovering the wonderful you.  Leo Buscaglia

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Education is about helping people to awaken their potential

• 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
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Leadership too is about unlocking potential

• Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better. Bill Bradley
• The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper. Socrates
• I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential. Denise Morrison
• Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves. Stephen Covey
• True leaders bring out your personal best. They ignite your human potential. John Paul Warren
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Realise the potential in each day …

• Remember that every day contains a universe of potential; exhaust it. Dominic Owen Mallary
• Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been and look at what can be. Marsha Petrie Sue
• A day is Eternity’s seed, and we are its Gardeners. Erika Harris
• 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.  Mary Jean Irion
• Remember that every day contains a universe of potential. Robin Sharma

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… the potential in each moment

• In every moment there is potential for something new. In every moment there is room for emergence. That’s the miracle of evolution. Andrew Cohen
• Every moment has infinite potential. Every new moment contains for you possibilities that you can’t possibly imagine. Every day is a blank page that you could fill with the most beautiful drawings. John C. Parkin

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See the future as full of potential and possibility …

• The future is simply infinite possibility waiting to happen. What it waits on is human imagination to crystallize its possibility.  Leland Kaiser
• Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. Douglas Pagels
• No matter how dark things are or seem to be, raise your sights and see possibilities – for they’re always there. Dom Miguel Ruiz
• Think about your future possibilities and the fact that your potential is virtually unlimited. You can do what you want to do and go where you want to go. You can be the person you want to be. You can set large and small goals and make plans and move step-by-step, progressively toward their realization. There are no obstacles to what you can accomplish except the obstacles that you create in your mind. Brian Tracy

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…  letting go of the limitations of the past

• All of us have unlimited potential and a clean slate in this moment—now. What prevents us from tapping into this great potential is our own mental ties to the past. Richard Carlson
• Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future. Marilyn Ferguson
• Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind. Roy T. Bennett
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We have potential for both good and bad

• Everybody’s got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it’s the choices we make that define who we really are. Charles de Lint
• 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. Henry Miller
• 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
• There is no greater burden than having great potential. Linus from “Peanuts”
• If we can transform ourselves, we have the potential to change the world. Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
• I believe each human being has the potential to change, to transform one’s own attitude, no matter how difficult the situation. The Dalai Lama
• Let’s assume that each person has an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different – to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses. John Fischer
• Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are.  In the long run, in the ultimate outlook, in the eye of the Creator, the possibilities of existence, the possibilities open to us, are beyond our imagination. Joseph Wood Krutch
• One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.  Maya Angelou

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• The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes. G.K.Chesterton
• To err is human, to blame it on somebody else shows management potential.
• Bulb: A potential flower buried in autumn, never to be seen again. Henry Beard
• I’m afraid that fulfilling my potential would really cut into my sitting around time.  Maria Bamford
• If you had to identify in one word the reason why the human race has not achieved and never will achieve its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.  Dave Barry
• There is no heavier burden than a great potential.  Linus van Pelt
• When anything is used to its full potential, it will break.  Poulsen’s Law

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