Potential Realization Quotes

The greatest handicap a person has is not realizing his potential.

No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

We tend to minimize the things we can do, the goals we can accomplish, and for some equally strange reason we think other people can accomplish things that we cannot. I want you to understand that that is not true. You have deep reservoirs of talent and ability within you that you can bring to the surface and achieve all that you desire

Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.

Great Presidents are made and not born. They have to be pushed into greatness.

People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

I look for something unique, and I look for people who haven't reached their potential. I think I'm pretty good at developing talent.

Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and sophisticated is within our reach. The major reason that so few take advantage of all that we have is simply, neglect.

Life is filled with potential that is truly unfathomable. At last we are coming to see the enormous power it possesses. That is why we must never write anyone off. In particular, we mustn’t put boundaries on our own potential. In most cases, our so-called limitations are nothing more than our own decision to limit ourselves.

So few people know what they're capable of.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

True success is what you have done compared to what you could have done.

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively

I think very early on in life we all learn what we're good at and what we're not good at, and we stay where it's safe.

Don't tell people they can do the impossible. Tell people that they can do the possible that they think is impossible.

We can learn from past failures and mistakes, but we shouldn't get stuck there. We can keep future goals in mind, but we shouldn't get stuck there, either. The only way to reach our potential is to focus on what we must do now - this moment, this day - to perform effectively and win.

I do not judge success based on championships; rather, I judge it on how close we came to realizing our potential

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

What we will become depends on us

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

But I know that I'm not who I was supposed to be. Who I could have been. And I know it's because I was too afraid for too long.

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.