James Cash Penney Quotes

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.

Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?

I think I have a gift, but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.

Problems are the outward signs of unused inner possibilities.

What everybody has seen from me is very little compared to what I'm capable of doing.

It doth not yet appear what we shall be. We lie here in our nest, unfledged and weak, guessing dimly at our future, and scarce believing what even now appears. But the power is in us, and that power is finally to be revealed. And what a revelation will that be!

Every person has seeds of greatness within, even though they may currently be dormant.

I don't think people have seen yet what I can really do. Only appetizers!

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

I always say to people that you have never seen the best of me, and that's what I mean - I've never been fully fit.

We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.

We think that we have great potential but never reach it.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

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.

There's much unlocked potential in Philips.

No player at the beginning of his career knows how good he can be.

There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out.

The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.

Potential just means you ain't done it yet.

Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.

Just look inside and you will find just what you can do.

I believe every person has within themselves inexhaustible reserves of potential they have never even come close to realizing.

You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.