Know Your Potential Quotes

#1. If you don't raise the bar, how will you ever know your potential?

L. Tom Perry

#2. Buddhism is the study of power initially. It takes a certain amount of power to even know your potential - to have the sense that you can change the way you perceive.

Frederick Lenz

#3. It is wisdom to know who you are, but not to the point of excluding who you might become.

James Rozoff

#4. The most frustrating things is when you read something that has so much potential, but there are other little red flags where you think, I don't know that I would see eye-to-eye with the people making this film. And that is the worst environment to enter, and absolutely not worth the risk.

Anna Kendrick

#5. Start finding future clients before you have anything to sell them. Get to know these people as friends, not potential customers.

Keith Ferrazzi

#6. When you discover your essential nature and know who you really are, in that knowing itself is the ability to fulfill any dream you have, because you are the eternal possibility, the immeasurable potential of all that was, is, and will be.

Deepak Chopra

#7. Potential, and the will to deploy it. That's all magic is in the end, you know.

Richard K. Morgan

#8. I feel good to know that they recognize the potential of reggae music. And they are exposing it to the world, letting the world hear how beautiful reggae music can be.

Peter Tosh

#9. Crazy people never seem to get better, so everyone needs to know what could be a potential problem down the line.

Raine Miller

#10. I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.

Haruki Murakami

#11. But that's not to say that the potential for the sun to shine doesn't exist. You know? Walk down the path towards the light, rather than walk into the darkness.

Roger Waters

#12. Finding this potential in my own mind, I can suspect it in others, but I will never know, for no one ever tells.

John Steinbeck

#13. Deep down you know you can be remarkable. You shouldn't settle for anything less than your best self, reaching ever closer to your potential
whether as a leader or in any other part of your life.

Kevin Eikenberry

#14. Do I have any potential as an actor? I don't know. I'm still wondering. But acting has kind of taken over.

Christian McKay

#15. The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to.

Jeremy Rifkin

#16. You young men need to know that you can hardly achieve your highest potential without the influence of a good women, particularly you mother, and in a few years, a good wife.

Russell M. Nelson

#17. I think people understand that if you're going to have a successful economy, you need people's potential to be realized. That means education. It means university education, sure, but it also means training, apprenticeships and various kinds of skills diplomas that we know are necessary.

Justin Trudeau

#18. The key to success is to first know thyself. The definition of success by another person must not paralyse you or make you think less of your potential to succeed in your own way.

Archibald Marwizi

#19. I know the value of my time!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. You know what your potential was when you were young: you could have done anything! But instead of doing anything, you did nothing.

Garth Stein

#21. You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is that of military technology. No potential weapon would remain unrealized for ten thousand years.

Isaac Asimov

#22. We Greeks want change. We know there are problems in our system. We have great potential but we need to manage our country well. Now that hasn't been done over the last decades. And that is, of course, what we are paying for.

George Papandreou

#23. Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life, but I'm not the kind of person to rebel or do things. I don't know. I don't let the potential for bad press dictate who I am, but I keep that in mind. How can you not?

Lauren Bush

#24. The mind gives up a lot sooner than the body, making it tough to know if you're really in trouble or if you're just making excuses, calling it quits before you've reached your full potential.

Kara Richardson Whitely

#25. I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don't know anything about.

Joel Osteen

#26. It's that you are having a mental conversation with all the forces that could be watching you and condemning you for your nose-picking (potential or actual) - even though rationally you know that no one can see you. That's the panopticon.

E. Lockhart

#27. You don't know what's on the inside until you put a demand on your potential.

Joel Osteen

#28. Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

#29. Now I know there are ways to belong to someone that don't take anything away. A relationship shouldn't impose limits - and if it does, then it's wrong. A lover should help you exceed your potential, not clip your wings.

Ann Aguirre

#30. Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Anne Frank

#31. Know who you are, what your potential is and press towards it with all that you have within you

Sunday Adelaja

#32. At certain moments in your life you just know that everything after will change. You can ignore these moments by not acting on the new set of possibilities they enable, and your life will stay the same. But if you say yes to their reverberating potential, your life path alters permanently.

Adam Braun

#33. You will never know what your potential is unless you give life 100 percent effort every day.

Mike Rabe

#34. Here's what you should say [to an investor]: 'this is what my company does' It's that simple. What you're trying to do is get potential investors to fantasize about how your product or service will make a boatload of money. They can't fantasize if they don't know what you do.

Guy Kawasaki

#35. You will do great and terrible things, Bethany Rudan. Just make sure you know the difference before you choose to act. And look to the boy, the tracker. He anchors you.

Meghan Ciana Doidge

#36. A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. A coach helps you measure your performance against your strengths instead of against someone else's. A coach will know what you are capable of and will push you to your limit.

Andy Stanley

#37. But isn't potential someone's capacity to develop their skills with effort over time? And that's just the point. How can we know where effort and time will take someone? Who

Carol S. Dweck

#38. I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.

Barry Sanders

#39. It is important for you to have a goal. You simply can't get there if you don't know where you are going. Begin to build in your mind a dream. The write it down and make your goal realistic. Aim high enough that you will have to stretch your ability and your potential to reach it.

Mary Kay Ash

#40. [I]t's important to know whether you're putting energy into something that has the potential to pay off. This is one of life's biggest challenges. We often stay in dead-end situations way too long...hoping the situation will improve.

Tina Seelig

#41. Don't worry; skills are cheap, passion is priceless. If you're passionate about your content and you know it and do it better than anyone else, even with few formal business skills you have the potential to create a million-dollar business.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#42. If I'm sure of a person and his potential in politics, and if I know he will live up to his promises, I wouldn't mind campaigning for him. I believe in the dictum, 'never say never.' You never know, I might end up joining politics.

Arjun Rampal

#43. Going into 'Details' magazine to pitch concepts for a potential photo shoot was one of the most nerve-wracking things I had ever done. I didn't really know what one did in a pitch, how they were structured, etc., and that freaked me out big time.

Brad Goreski

#44. You can do things.
Do you know this?
Do you believe it?
You should.
It's true.
You can do great things.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#45. Assume that people are good until you actually and specifically learn differently. And even then, know that they have potential for change and that you can help them out.

Leo Buscaglia

#46. When we know we are delaying the consequences of truth, whether buried in our subconscious or ignored by our conscious thoughts, our denial continues to steal our potential for true happiness.

Elaina Marie

#47. Once you have been in an earthquake you know, even if you survive without a scratch, that like a stroke in the heart, it remains in the earth's breast, horribly potential, always promising to return, to hit you again, with an even more devastating force.

Salman Rushdie

#48. If I know there is potential good hidden within each chaotic situation, I can loosen my grip on control.

Lysa TerKeurst

#49. We all know, intuitively, that if something is humanly possible, it is possible for ourselves.

Vironika Tugaleva

#50. If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.

Mark McGwire

#51. Tragedy, as you know, is always a fait accompli, whereas terror always has to do with anticipation, with man's recognition of hisown negative potential
with his sense of what he is capable of.

Joseph Brodsky

#52. We trade away some, if not much, of our freedom for the feeling of safety that comes with sticking with what we know because the known can only be as scary as it already is, whereas the unknown has limitless potential to be terrifying.

Philip K. Jason

#53. Um, yeah. For instance, take, you know, take, for instance, the issue of -- I'm drawing a blank, and I hate it when I do that, particularly on television.
-- potential McCain VP candidate Mark Sanford, asked on CNN to name differences in economic policy between Bush and McCain

Mark Sanford

#54. I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me.

Shirley Maclaine

#55. It's so difficult to love another person and yourself for who they are and not what they do or who they could be. To stay in this moment and know it in all its pleasure and its pain. The world is a beautiful place. How often do we say this aloud?

Vicki Forman

#56. I find it sad that too many do not understand themselves, or their potential. They don't even take the time to get to know their unconsciousness. You can truly learn so much, by simply getting to know the "you" that is behind the reality of yourself.

Lionel Suggs

#57. We cannot train women and forget about the men. We should train men to know the potential of women.

Sakena Yacoobi

#58. Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential.

Alan Rufus

#59. More important than starting any startup, is getting to know a lot of potential co-founders.

Sam Altman

#60. If you look at companies with upside potential, Twitter's right there. They've established a brand in a world where it's extremely difficult to establish a brand. It's a global brand, people recognize it, people want to let you know what their Twitter handles are, etc.

Steve Ballmer

#61. When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can.

John Sexton

#62. Once I really maximize my potential-I don't know when that'll be, a year from now, three or four years from now-I think I can be one of the great ones.

Julius Peppers

#63. Knowledge is only potential power. For the power to be manifested, it must be applied. Most people know what they should do in any given situation, or in their lives, for that matter. The problem is that they don't take daily, consistent action to apply the knowledge and realize their dreams.

Robin S. Sharma

#64. You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think
I did
that God put you on earth to blow your father away.

Stephen King

#65. Great leaders don't just know the sweet spots of their people. They tap into and unchain the infinite potential imprisoned within their people...

Assegid Habtewold

#66. Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult.

Abdul Kalam

#67. The chances in some cases are infinitesimal, but the potential is still there. This is about all that patients need to know and it is about all that patients want to know.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#68. For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.

Itzhak Perlman

#69. We'll never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it.

Travis Rice

#70. Until you take time to discover yourself, you never know what you can achieve or how far you can go

Sunday Adelaja

#71. A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

Confucius

#72. I've just had a wonderful time doing Chinese music, and it's been so rewarding for me. I feel like there's so much potential in mandarin music, and there's so much, you know, ground left to be broken.

Wang Leehom

#73. Whether you know or not, you are the infinite potential of love, peace and joy

Amit Ray

#74. Awaken yourself by stopping your preoccupation with what you think you know, and instead rest comfortably in the not knowing. Embrace possibility and potential. Do not fear the unknown or that which you cannot control.

Alfred James

#75. I have a sofa on which I never nap, big windows with an ocean view that I rarely see because I keep the pleated shades down at all times while working. I know I'm a potential slacker, so I don't tempt myself.

Dean Koontz

#76. At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

#77. We sacrifice our potential because we do not know that we are pure potential.

Vironika Tugaleva

#78. You have to know your body. It's part of the beauty of the training process, and once you've determined how much your body and mind can take, you can then begin to reach your potential.

Frank Shorter

#79. You know, some actors, all of their potential is in their youth, and when that passes, their qualities of as an actor pass. But he - Alan [Rickman] was the opposite, and their are other actors who are like that, who, really, their potential is in maturity

Helen Mirren

#80. You have to know who you are to grow to your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are.

John C. Maxwell

#81. I don't know an actor who hasn't let himself down at some point. I imagine it's the same in politics. There's always the potential to self sabotage.

Corey Stoll

#82. You must always focus on and pursue the good, but when that darkness surges up from within, you need to know how to handle it, use it, and release it wisely, not just deny its presence or acceptability as you suppress it within you.

A.J. Darkholme

#83. I'm always disappointed when people don't live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

Maya Angelou

#84. I'd say that people give up because they don't know the possibilities that are out there for them, nor do they realize their potential.

Nolan R. Baum

#85. When difficulties come, we must see them as what they are---opportunities and a new path to discover your potential. How will you ever know the magnitude of courage you are capable of if you have never experienced the hopelessness of fear?

Farah Oomerbhoy

#86. We will never know if any other president approached Nixon in paranoia, profanity or potential criminality, since only his conversations were captured, subpoenaed and ultimately released on the front pages of newspapers.

Nancy Gibbs