Unrecognized Capabilities Quotes

No one came to earth empty; everybody came with a contribution to make to their generation. Most of them never find that gift and even more die never releasing it.

I do stuff that I don't even know I can do sometimes.

I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

[It is nice] to explore someone's will to survive, the ferocity of loyalty, how far you would go to protect the ones you love... I believe women have more power than we give ourselves credit for... We have been known to lift cars off of babies! That's incredible.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

I have been called a man of many talents, but I like to keep a few of those talents hidden.

No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.