Quotes About Human Potential

#1. The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential.

Tama J. Kieves

#2. The only limits on your life are those that you set yourself. When you dare to get out of your circle of comfort and explore the unknown, you start to liberate your true human potential.

Robin S. Sharma

#3. Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.

Brian Tracy

#4. One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.

Douglas B. Reeves

#5. Destructive criticism is the biggest single enemy of human potential. It is worse than cancer or heart disease. While those diseases can ultimately lead to the deterioration and death of an individual, destructive criticism kills the soul of the person but leaves the body walking around.

Brian Tracy

#6. Human potential is amazing ... We have the capacity to create a world that is peaceful ... one that spreads kindness and love rather than hatred. If we believe it to be so, it will be our truth, and we will create it.

Kristi Bowman

#7. The set goal can release inner capacities and involve all human potential

Sunday Adelaja

#8. Human potential is the ability of a person or humanity to put their theoretical abilities into practice

Sunday Adelaja

#9. I think the wonderment of seeing my two sons developing makes me incredibly optimistic about human potential. It makes you think: 'My goodness. It's a miracle that's going on here. What could the human race do together?'

David Miliband

#10. When you're putting people on the moon, you're inspiring all of us to achieve the maximum of human potential, which is how our greatest problems will eventually be solved.

Randy Pausch

#11. In Mastery author Robert Greene argues that we all have the ability to push the limits of human potential.

Carmine Gallo

#12. The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.

Steve Maraboli

#13. I think cities are the primordial forests of our time. We evolve faster as a species in cities. Cities are chaotic, liminal places where the many aspects of human potential, good and/or bad, are most readily magnified.

Chris Abani

#14. When the brain's potential is fully unleashed, there can be few if any limitations. Anyone who tells you otherwise isn't up-to-date with the latest scientific findings on the brain and is exhibiting their ignorance. For the brain's potential is the human potential ...

James Morcan

#15. Titles are prisons of human potential

Natasha Tsakos

#16. When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.

Jacque Fresco

#17. 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

#18. Chicago is not a bad place to live. But the usual story of immigration is the happy fulfillment of human potential in America that is not available anywhere else - it's propaganda, really. It's more complicated than that.

Aleksandar Hemon

#19. Fear clogged human potential.

Toba Beta

#20. Every economic ... acti on must set about providing each inhabitant of the planet with the minimum wherewithal to live in dignity and freedom, with the possibility of supporting a family, educating children, praising God and developing one's own human potential.

Pope Francis

#21. The five principles of aloha, when practiced together, awaken our awareness of our human potential and the sacredness of our life.

Paul Pearsall

#22. By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Gloria Steinem

#23. The suffering of human potential comes from the lack of a true pinnacle.

Fred Venturini

#24. Reclaiming the parts of ourselves that we have relegated to the shadow is the most reliable path to actualizing all of our human potential.

Debbie Ford

#25. We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

Jane Goodall

#26. In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.

Donald Sadoway

#27. The older I get, the more determined I feel to do whatever I can to help release that human potential somehow. Not in a fluffy way nor in a hardcore way. But in that middle ground, that marriage of love and power. I'm not afraid of either.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#28. Wings are not only for birds; they are also for minds. Human potential stops at some point somewhere beyond infinity.

Toller Cranston

#29. In the Christian perspective, the love of God and of all other human beings invites us to share and enjoy not just the best of the human potential as it evolves, but participation in the divine life itself.

Thomas Keating

#30. Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn't currently being used.

Tony Buzan

#31. Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.

Donella Meadows

#32. Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, "I am of no value", is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought- so what are you lacking? If you have willpower, then you can change anything. It is usually said that you are your own master.

Dalai Lama

#33. Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.

Victor Ponta

#34. Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.

Willard Gaylin

#35. How well that human potential has been fulfilled over the years by people with a deep and abiding connection to Pennsylvania.

William Schreyer

#36. True leaders bring out your personal best. They ignite your human potential.

John Paul Warren

#37. The comfort zone is the greatest enemy of human potential.

Brian Tracy

#38. Human potential is the same for all. If you have will power, then you can change anything.

Dalai Lama

#39. And I believe that if we can care about whether or not our neighbor has a good job or access to affordable health care for their children, and we move to implement the policies that can improve these situations, we will unleash vast amounts of human potential and recapture the American spirit.

Tim Ryan

#40. Our greatest human potential is expressed when the consciousness of our inner world and the consciousness of the outer world are lived fearlessly without a conflict between either side.

Mada Eliza Dalian

#41. Romanticism tells us that in order to make the most of our human potential we must have as many different experiences as we can.

Yuval Noah Harari

#42. A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#43. It can be fairly argued that the highest priority for mankind is to save itself from extinction. However, it can also be argued th at a society that neglects its children and robs them of their human potential can extinguish itself without an external enemy.

Selma Fraiberg

#44. For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement.

Viktor E. Frankl

#45. The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, miscomprehension, natural disasters, betrayal, and the waste of human potential.

Paul Di Filippo

#46. individual destiny is to a large extent defined, and human potential frequently circumscribed, by social conventions as ephemeral as they are 'inscrutable.

Edith Wharton

#47. There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it

Andrew Schneider

#48. Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth.

William W. Purkey

#49. If all the information of the cosmos flows through our pores at every moment, then our current notion of our human potential is only a glimmer of what it should be.

Lynne McTaggart

#50. Many older women are inhibited and afraid to act. It is such a waste of human potential.

Frances Lear

#51. The Mirror Exercise You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts. BRIAN TRACY Leading authority on the development of human potential and personal effectiveness

Jack Canfield

#52. When you stifle human potential, when you don't invest in new ideas, it doesn't just cut off the people who are affected. It hurts us all.

William J. Clinton

#53. There are genocidal tendencies that are at the heart of the human potential, and I think if we don't talk about it, we're not preparing ourselves for a better future.

Laszlo Nemes

#54. Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ... a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?

Abraham Maslow

#55. Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

David Koepp

#56. Bowie is less about trappings and more about the traps that seek to limit human potential.

Mark Paytress

#57. The misnomer is that satirists are pessimists, or even misanthropes, but usually it is just a way to unlock human potential.

Marietta Rodgers

#58. The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential.

Stefan Molyneux

#59. Human potential is the only limitless resource we have in this world.

Carly Fiorina

#60. Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential.

Gordon Neufeld

#61. As growth-minded leaders, they start with a belief in human potential and development - both their own and other people's. Instead of using the company as a vehicle for their greatness, they use it as an engine of growth - for themselves, the employees, and the company as a whole.

Carol S. Dweck

#62. I believe that if an individual is not on the path to transcending his society and seeing in what way it furthers or impedes the development of human potential, he cannot enter into intimate contact with his humanity.

Erich Fromm

#63. We must avoid the caricature that science means formula or a lack of humanity in work. In fact, science is one of humanity's most creative pursuits. I believe that applying it to entrepreneurship will unlock a vast storehouse of human potential.

Eric Ries

#64. This loving person is a person who abhors waste-waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.

Leo Buscaglia

#65. From a leader's perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to deal equitably with each other as human beings.

Max De Pree

#66. It is a belief in human potential that has guided me through my time in Government.

Michael Gove

#67. Education and the workforce: I think these two things go together in terms of human potential.

L. Todd Rose

#68. Martial arts are a vehicle for developing your human potential.

Joe Rogan

#69. Women have for centuries been recognized as talented listeners, nurturers, motivators, excellent communicators. These very qualities that we once were told were unbusinesslike are precisely the qualities that business needs most to tap human potential.

Mary Cunningham Agee

#70. The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.

Jim Rohn

#71. The longer I lived in China, the more I sensed that the Chinese people have outpaced the political system that nurtured their rise. The Party has unleashed the greatest expansion of human potential in world history - and spawned, perhaps, the greatest threat to its own survival.

Evan Osnos

#72. Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel.

Rose Tremain

#73. The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment.

Dannel Malloy

#74. Given as much law as that man will be able to do anything and go anywhere, an the only trace of pessimism left in the human prospect today is a faint flavour that one was born so soon.

H.G.Wells

#75. Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

Thomas Mann

#76. It is crucial that we realize the great value of human existence, the opportunity and the potential that our brief lives afford us. It is only as humans that we have the possibility of implementing changes in our lives.

Dalai Lama

#77. You are infinitely capable. You don't live in the universe. You are the universe. You are the entire universe experiencing itself through the eyes of one human. And thus, you are free to create the reality you choose.

Michael Sanders

#78. People get smarter. The human brain has a potential for development. Some day it will grow big enough so that everybody will see and understand the truth, and then we won't act like a bunch of sheep, and then that wall separates the two sides of us will crumble, just like the wall of Jericho.

Harry Bernstein

#79. It's human nature to work on ourselves, to get better in mind, body, and spirit, so there's nothing wrong with trying to live life to your fullest potential.

Josh McDermitt

#80. Wherever there is human judgment there is the potential for bias.

Nate Silver

#81. Egypt has great potential because of the latent power of its human capital.

Ahmed Zewail

#82. I have always been bullish about India's potential. I still am, and I feel India is a country that really has an enormous amount of potential and has the human capital to succeed.

Ratan Tata

#83. The election in Iraq clearly demonstrates that Iraqi people are like people everywhere. They desire to create a future in an environment that is safe and allows them to reach their full potential as human beings, whatever that potential may be.

John Ensign

#84. Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning.

Denise Morrison

#85. Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

Bruce Lee

#86. A life is a terrible thing to waste. Reach your potential. Thrive.

Paul Gibbons

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

Vironika Tugaleva

#88. Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

Wilma Rudolph

#89. If we let Christ into our lives, we lose nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful, and great. No! Only in this friendship are the doors of life opened wide. Only in this friendship is the great potential of human existence truly revealed.

Pope Benedict XVI

#90. The mountain is nothing without people on it. Often you part expedition exasperated, but a year or two later you go back with the same partners knowing there's potential in this human relationship.

Greg Child

#91. Even potential human life needs to be treated with great respect.

Tony Abbott

#92. Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

Mary McLeod Bethune

#93. I believe each human being has the potential to change, to transform one's own attitude, no matter how difficult the situation.

Dalai Lama XIV

#94. Though the human body is born complete in one moment, the birth of the human heart is an ongoing process. It is being birthed in every experience of your life. Everything that happens to you has the potential to deepen you. It brings to birth within you new territories of the heart.

John O'Donohue

#95. Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings.

Dalai Lama

#96. When it comes to describing our potential physical and cognitive capacities, we are individuals first, and members of the human race second.

Alexandra Horowitz

#97. Deposits of unfinished grief reside in more American hearts that I ever imagined. Until these pockets are opened and their contents aired openly, they block unimagined amounts of human growth and potential. They can give rise to bizarre and unexplained behavior which causes untold internal stress.

Robert Kavanaugh

#98. a dream is welded to a dreamer's heart and has the potential of stirring up the deepest part of a human heart.

Joe Ibojie

#99. Each human being has significant potential for light and darkness," Grandpa continued. "Over a lifetime, we get a lot of practice leaning toward one or the other. Having made different choices, a renowned hero could have been a wretched villain.

Brandon Mull

#100. And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

Henry Miller