Warren Buffett Quotes

I just think that we're capable of so much more; we don't utilize all our capacity like we should.

Just look at the last 237 years …. Who wants to bet against America. Just look at the record…. We haven’t come close to tapping our human potential. This country’s best days lie ahead of us.

Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible, feel, as they stand on the edge of the grave, that they are but human acorns with all their possibilities still in them, just beginning to sprout.

The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.

I always have been optimistic about humanity's future. Always. Even at the most dismaying of times.

Like every person, every thought has the potential to become something great.

It seems that every life form on this planet strives toward its maximum potential... except human beings. A tree does not grow to half its potential size and then say, "l guess that will do." A tree will drive its roots as deep as possible. It will soak up as much nourishment as it can, stretch as high and as wide as nature will allow, and then look down as if to remind us of how much each of us could become if we would only do all that we can.

Man, I think the sky is the limit for this team.

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.

It's not a pretty picture, but there are reasons for hope.

I've seen a lot of doom and gloom and depressing things, and it's [the] youth that give me hope.

Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.

I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks.

Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.

If you give people a chance, they shine.

I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating, and I think people are more good than bad, and I think that the possibilities of prog­ress are real.

I'm very optimistic about my home state of Arizona...

Hope burns eternal in the human heart.

I believe a radiant, light-filled tomorrow should be normal to the experience of living.

Everyday has the potential to be the greatest day of your life

The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America.

Strive to accomplish the very best you are capable of. Nothing less than your best effort will suffice.

All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.

I truly believe we all have a sleeping giant within us. Each of us has a talent, a gift, our own bit of genius just waiting to be tapped. It might be a talent for art or music... a special way of relating to the ones you love. It might be a genius for selling or innovating.... I choose to believe that our Creator doesn't play favorites, that we've all been created unique, but with equal opportunities for experiencing life to the fullest.

Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow — it's not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans. No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids — human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard. And Star Trek is about those things.