#potential

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical and mental training; what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without seeing the strength and beauty of which his body and mind are capable.

By his love, a person 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 ought to be actualized.

In the concentration camps, we watched our comrades behave either like animals or like saints. Man has both potentialities within himself; which is actualized depends on decisions, not on conditions.

Man constantly makes his choice concerning the mass of present potentials: which of these will be condemned to non-being and which will be actualized?

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

We all have reservoirs of life to draw upon, of which we do not dream.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake.

Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

Hidden nature is secret divinity. Man is a transitional being; he is not final. For in man and high beyond him rise the radiant degrees of the divine consciousness.

Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man.

Never say 'No', never say 'I cannot', for you are infinite. All the power is within you.

Awaken the giant within your own consciousness.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Man's greatness is not in what he is, but in what he makes possible.

Every man is a channel through which heaven would pour forth its gifts, if he did not block the way.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

You are far greater than your knowledge, and more immense than your dreams.

Even the mightiest oak tree began as an acorn hidden in the darkness of the earth.

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

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.

Dig within. Within is the well of good, and it will ever bubble forth, if you will ever dig.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.