Quotes About Potential In Life

#1. Some people say that we only use 10% of our brains. I say that most only live 10% of their full potential in life.

Nolan R. Baum

#2. Yoga releases the creative potential in life.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#3. When your spouse's emotional love tank is full and he feels secure in your love, the whole world looks bright and your spouse will move out to reach his highest potential in life.

Gary Chapman

#4. There are a lot of 'chicken Christians.' Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Joyce Meyer

#5. Let's continue to dream more and more and realise that there is an unlimited liberty of choice to reach out for the high potential in life.

Euginia Herlihy

#6. There is immense, powerful potential in life in this universe - especially now that we know that places like the Earth are common. And that potential, that powerful potential, is also our potential, of you and me.

Dimitar Sasselov

#7. In achieving your greatest potential in life, the more enemies you'll make but just "Take care and play the game smart.

Auliq Ice

#8. You want something you can't have, Gurgeh. You enjoy your life in the Culture, but it can't provide you with sufficient threats; the true gambler needs the excitement of potential loss, even ruin, to feel wholly alive.

Anonymous

#9. Ignoring intuition to follow some course in life always has the potential for regrets.

Steven Redhead

#10. Oftentimes we don't manifest what we want in our lives, because our energy is too focused on what others are doing in their lives. This lack of focus in our own life, dilutes our energy and we leak our creative potential into other people's soul experience.

Sabrina

#11. You are full of potential. You are overflowing with creativity. There's nothing in your heart that you cannot accomplish.

Joel Osteen

#12. He tried to think of all the people in his life as chemicals, the uncertainty of mixing them together, the potential for explosions and scarring.

Kevin Wilson

#13. In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential. It's no different in the financial realm

Suze Orman

#14. What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life.

Edwin Louis Cole

#15. We all wish to live a happy life. In addition, we all have the same right to fulfil this goal. And we all have the potential to do so for the simple reason that future is not fixed, it can be changed. Therefore, we should live in hope that we really can overcome whatever problems we face.

Dalai Lama

#16. 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

#17. But the pain I felt was excruciating. It was as if my life had ended. Here I was in my early twenties and the best part of my life was over. Do you see how terrible that would be? I had suc potential, then woke up one day and it had gone.

Haruki Murakami

#18. Whatever happens to me in life, I must believe that somewhere, In the mess or madness of it all, There is a sacred potential -

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#19. The flow experience, like everything else, is not "good" in an absolute sense. It is good only in that it has the potential to make life more rich, intense, and meaningful; it is good because it increases the strength and complexity of the self.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#20. In God's economy, nothing is slag, nothing is wasted. Every relationship we build is a teacher, every experience we have is a coach. In every scar there is a lesson. In every memory there lives potential to make more.

Toni Sorenson

#21. We were designed to love and to be loved, to reach our dreams to unleash our potentials but not live in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

Auliq Ice

#22. Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.

Randy Thornhorn

#23. When you find your heart's desire, you'll have the key to unlocking your potential in every other part of your life.

Brian Tracy

#24. If you do not give 110% in your life, I promise your life will haunt you for the rest of your days. Time is the most valuable asset on Earth, a depreciating asset, don't waste another moment of life where you are not at your fullest potential getting the most out of the time you have in life.

Greg Plitt

#25. 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

#26. Those gifts and talents, which are incorporated in you and have not yet been implemented, make your potential

Sunday Adelaja

#27. In my life, the one thing I have learned above all is that no individual can reach the height of their potential without the love of others

Renee Ahdieh

#28. I had played sports all my life, and I thought that was going to be the way. But I saw where the potential in football was going to end. When it comes to decision-making, I just follow my gut at the end of the day. And if I don't, I get in trouble. I wanted to become a filmmaker.

Jason Wiles

#29. 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

#30. (Taken from the Foreword of 'Do Hard Things') One of my life's principles is to develop myself to the maximum of my potential in all ways and to help others do the same.

Chuck Norris

#31. It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.

Ben Carson

#32. Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#33. This is the miracle of all miracles - when life sacrifices itself to become something greater. When it awakens to its potential and rises in power. That is true magic.

Seth Adam Smith

#34. Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to accept that life also offers unlimited beauty and potential for joy as well as endless opportunities for pleasure.

Leo Buscaglia

#35. 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

#36. The difference in our potential as angels or demons is the effect of time on the decisions we make.

Slade Combs

#37. You can have all the words in the world,but if not said rightly, those words are simply wasted potential.

Joel T. McGrath

#38. Think of how much we stress about living up to our "potential," and how it creates anxiety and terror in people; in short, stops them from living their life as fully as they might out of fear and self-loathing.

Emily Susan Rapp

#39. Water is the formless potential out of which creation emerged. It is the ocean of unconsciousness enveloping the islands of consciousness. Water bathes us at birth and again at death, and in between it washes away sin. It is by turns the elixir of life or the renewing rain or the devastating flood.

Scott Sanders

#40. Maybe the potential for agony and loss is what makes love itself that much stronger, knowing that it all can be gone in an instant, so you live life like there may not be a tomorrow.

Melissa A. Hanson

#41. I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic.

Damon Albarn

#42. Life is something that really cannot be explained. It got to be experienced! For experiencing life to its fullest an attitudes of openness, gratefulness, happiness, flexibility are required. But most of all 'being in love' is crucial to live life to its fullest potential.

Vishwas Chavan

#43. I believe having religion in your life creates the potential for long-lasting relationships.

Goldie Hawn

#44. The potential of controlling and living a successful life according to your terms depends on how you think. Your perception is your world. You can create the life you want and in fact, you can even shape the way you want it.

Dee Dee Artner

#45. The new Sufi tariqahs founded at this time stressed the unlimited potential of human life. Sufis could experience on the
spiritual plane what the Mongols had so nearly achieved in terrestrial politics

Karen Armstrong

#46. Now is the time to reinvent yourself and develop a new plan of action. Now is the time to create new actions and practices that are focused on growth and development in your personal and professional life. Now is the time to unleash your leadership potential and ignite your passion to lead.

Thomas Narofsky

#47. The real meditative practice is to open up to the full range of what happens in life. And parenting is a fantastic arena for doing that kind of spiritual training. It's as much a potential door into enlightenment as anything else.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#48. For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a moment which he considers a defining point in his life as an activist, he's also set the stage for potential ugliness down the road.

James Vance

#49. As human beings, we're capable of greatness of spirit, an ability to go beyond the circumstances we find ourselves in, to experience a vast sense of connection to all of life.

Sharon Salzberg

#50. Life is filled with opportunities. Be courageous and fulfill your destiny. You were created for a purpose and once you realize your potential, you become unstoppable. Let no one get in the way of you pursuing your dreams.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#51. 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

#52. The level of happiness you experience through your interactions depends on the quality of your walk in love.

Mensah Oteh

#53. Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Henry David Thoreau

#54. There's One Person above all others who desires an extraordinary life for you. He is a Father who delights, like any good father, in the achievements and happiness of His children. His name is God! And nothing will please Him more than seeing you reach your highest potential.

John Bevere

#55. Mary Allen has compiled a wealth of tools and resources - both inner and outer - to support you in consciously directing your untapped potential and creating a life that you love.

Debbie Ford

#56. 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

#57. They can't denied who I am.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#58. At that moment in her life, Elisa was, he realized, almost pathologically attracted not to status or money or good looks but to literary and intellectual potential.

Adelle Waldman

#59. One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.

Rollo May

#60. To help someone, or make them feel special; all it needs is to offer the tools which are thrust, and guidance, and show that you believe in the persons potential. The product is musical notes floating everywhere.
Katia M. S.

Katia M. S.

#61. Building a solid foundation in the early years of a child's life will not only help him or her reach their reach their full potential but will also result in better societies as a whole.

Novak Djokovic

#62. Bike riding requires permanent sacrifice. It means training 11 months out of 12 and 110 days of racing, whatever the weather conditions. Early in life, I realised I did not have intellectual potential, so I dedicated myself to cycling.

Richard Virenque

#63. Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner life, and being rooted in the world.

James Carroll

#64. This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come. No one reaches their potential in your world.

Wm. Paul Young

#65. You wish to believe foolishly that no matter what comes, you can simply overcome through some sense of unlimited potential or magical destiny, but that is folly. Your life hangs in the balance.

Robert J. Crane

#66. The number one cause of unfulfilled potential is never deciding that NOW matters more than any other time in your life.

Hal Elrod

#67. 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

#68. What I'm interested in is happiness with a full awareness of the tragedy of life, the potential tragedy that lurks around every corner and the tragedy that actually is life.

Wolfgang Tillmans

#69. The greatest waste in all the world is living below our potential.

Harold B. Lee

#70. My deepest wounds and greatest strengths lie in my ability to see the potential for relationship in my life.

Helen LaKelly Hunt

#71. In life, it's not the genetic guy who wins or the guy with the most potential who wins; it's the person with the greatest perseverance who wins. Always be willing to get up and go at it again and again. That's the guy who has his hands raised later in life. That's the guy you guys need to be.

Greg Plitt

#72. If you never leave where you come from, I don't think you'll ever figure out who you are, because how much is forced on you? How much of your personality is imposed instead of created? That's why I left. I think people need to leave in order to find their potential.

Katie Kacvinsky

#73. Affirmation: What most fulfils & energizes me - mind, body, spirit - is what manifests in my life.

Jay Woodman

#74. Accepting that a person will die and shucking off any aversion to this blunt thought awakens the mind to realize what is possible in a human life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#75. Because adoption is a lifelong journey, we have a future filled with the potential to learn invaluable lessons. But many of us haven't been taught that we have a choice in every situation in life.

Sherrie Eldridge

#76. So our definition of manliness, like that of the ancients, is simple: striving for virtue, honor, and excellence in all areas of your life, fulfilling your potential as a man, and being the absolute best brother, friend, husband, father and citizen you can be.

Brett McKay

#77. We tend to deny our humanity because in accepting the fullness of it, we would need to confess how little we've done with it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#78. -The burden of existence is bestowed upon birth.
-The gift of existence is bestowed upon birth.
Choose wisely, your life (and potential others' life) depend on it.

Kevin Focke

#79. Life's best coaches are those who believe in you and your potential, sometimes even before you do.

Lorii Myers

#80. [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

#81. Never give up in life, give your whole hearted try to every challenge coming your way even though the challenge seems impossible and much beyond your reach and potential.

Pravin Agarwal

#82. Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it ... myself included.

Pablo Picasso

#83. Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.

Roy Bennett

#84. All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.

Jean Giraudoux

#85. When we play, we sense no limitations. In fact, when we are playing, we are usually unaware of ourselves. Self-observation goes out the window. We forget all those past lessons of life, forget our potential foolishness, forget ourselves. We immerse ourselves in the act of play. And we become free.

Lenore Terr

#86. You are perfect, not tomorrow, not in the future, but today.

Mensah Oteh

#87. Discovering life in oneself is to become all you can be

Sunday Adelaja

#88. To raise positive kids, we as parents must identify the qualities necessary for success, convince our children that they have the potential for success, and show them how to stake their claims in life.

Zig Ziglar

#89. The greatest quest in life is to reach one's potential.

Mychal Wynn

#90. Once we realize that our essential sweetness is in our minds, and that each of us has unique life-path potential not fully tethered to a body-determined route, then it is as sensible to be transhuman as it is to be transgendered. The being is mightier than the gene.

Martine Rothblatt

#91. You augment your strength every time you overcome obstacles. Discover and use that unique potential you have in coping well in a positive way no matter how worst the situation can be.

Angelica Hopes

#92. What's the use in prolonging life if you don't do anything with it?

A.J. Darkholme

#93. The one general theme I took away from that first week with my new friends, was that everyone had their issues. Life in its simplest form is an attempt to deal with and avoid potential impediments. Some families take dysfunction to lofty heights while other break apart like Oreos mixed in a blender.

Phil Wohl

#94. We are not cabin-dwellers, born to a life cramped and confined; we are meant to explore, to seek, to push the limits of our potential as human beings. The world of the senses is just a base camp: we are meant to be as much at home in consciousness as in the world of physical reality.

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

#95. What was lost in the European cataclysm was not only the Jewish past
the whole life of a civilization
but also a major share ofthe Jewish future ... [ellipsis in source] It was not only the intellect of a people in its prime that was excised, but the treasure of a people in its potential.

Cynthia Ozick

#96. Like the lotus which thrives in mud, the potential for realization grows in the rich soil of everyday life

Dalai Lama

#97. The world after a war is a good world, I told myself. A happy world. A secure world. In this world, I might do anything.

Jennifer Niven

#98. You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.

Denis Waitley

#99. There are only two potential tragedies in life, and dying young isn't one of them. These are the two real tragedies: If you go through life and you don't love ... and if you go through life and you don't tell those whom you love that you love them.

John Powell

#100. Come to believe that the fear of death is always greatest in those who feel that they have not lived their life fully. A good working formula is: the more unlived life, or unrealized potential, the greater one's death anxiety.

Irvin D. Yalom