With Potential Quotes

#1. Indeed, many of life's most fun and pleasurable choices come with potential dangers. It's important for my son to grow up recognizing that what might appear exciting or inviting at first glance could also have eventual negative consequences.

Karen Salmansohn

#2. The most important gift anyone can give a girl is a belief in her own power as an individual, her value without reference to gender, her respect as a person with potential.

Emilie Buchwald

#3. i see a young man with potential. A young man who is loyal. Who can do as he is asked and who wants to do something good with his life.

Harry Hart

#4. There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious again, wrapped in black, gone away. I was raw. I felt swollen with potential tears, like a water balloon filled to burst. Begging for a pin prick.

Gillian Flynn

#5. You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.

Rumi

#6. Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

Richard John Neuhaus

#7. how to deal with potential enemies. You strike first, you strike fast and you strike hard.

Sir Jens

#8. It's nice to be in a world where you're not going to exhaust storylines with potential villains.

Donal Logue

#9. Here we are - Energy, Mass, Life, Shaping life, Mind, Shaping Mind, God, Shaping God. Consider - We are born Not with purpose, But with potential.

Octavia E. Butler

#10. Are you living up to your potential? God made you with potential - potential for greatness! If you do what you can do, and trust Him to do what you can't, you will grow into the person He gave you the potential to be!

Joyce Meyer

#11. Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety.

Walter Lang

#12. Perceived self-efficacy in coping with potential threats leads people to approach such situations anxiously, and experience of disruptive arousal may further lower their sense of efficacy that they will be able to perform skillfully

Albert Bandura

#13. Rajas is activity and Tamas inertia. Sattva is the balance of these two, for only consciousness can balance kinetic energy with potential energy.

Robert E. Svoboda

#14. How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect.

Sarah Dessen

#15. You have to learn to see the gold in dirt, which means that you try to spot people with potential as well as ideas that have potential.

Max McKeown

#16. Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.

Vanessa Mae

#17. I will stay. I chose you because i dont see a troubled crazy person i see a beautiful girl with potential and future. A person that could be my wife

Tyler Knox

#18. One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Maya Angelou

#19. A blank page is no empty space. It is brimming with potential ... It is a masterpiece in waiting
yours.

A.A. Patawaran

#20. Just became so overwhelmed with potential food options that i actually cried

Tao Lin

#21. You lose with potential. You win with performance.

Bill Parcells

#22. I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man / just a mortal with potential of a superman / I'm living on.

David Bowie

#23. The emptiness of one's days
can be seen as utterly hopeless
or as ripe with potential.

Edward Fahey

#24. Enlargement will also be high on the agenda with potential invitations for accession being made at the summit

Anonymous

#25. We will step up support for the non-commodity export sector, working more closely with potential buyers of Russian goods. We do have something to offer in the IT sphere, the nuclear power industry, aircraft manufacturing, the aerospace industry and a number of other sectors

Dmitry Medvedev

#26. Whoever is first to dominate the most important segment of a market with viral potential will be the last mover in the whole market.

Peter Thiel

#27. One of the most terrifying things I fear is not my potential, but how much regret I'll die with should I never use it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#28. Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment. There always is the potential to create an environment of blame -or one that is conducive to loving-kindness.

Pema Chodron

#29. Death is a thief, the grandest perpetrator of larceny of all. It robs the potential of all the things left undone and reimburses the living with bits of memories that, with each day, pass through the fingers like a handful of sand.

Ron Perlman

#30. 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

#31. There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change.

Jennifer Granholm

#32. Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are filled with just as much potential as any man.

Brad Meltzer

#33. The group parted happily for the scheduled lunch break, planning to return at 3:00 to look at some potential Yentes and Perchiks, beginning with Bea Arthur.

Alisa Solomon

#34. Each day is filled with promise, potential and possibility.

Tony Curl

#35. Wind has the potential to produce many, many more jobs per kilowatt hour than coal. But the coal industry has tremendous political clout on Capitol Hill because of its alliance with the railroads and coal-burning utilities.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#36. 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

#37. The obsession with instant gratification blinds us from our long-term potential.

Mike Dooley

#38. Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

Alexis Herman

#39. It also has potential to cause problems to individuals who had nothing to do with the terrorism issue.

Marty Natalegawa

#40. A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.

John Steinbeck

#41. Your perspective is vital to your happiness. Some, blind to the bountiful opportunities around them, live lives of sadness and despair with brief moments of joy. Be alive to the abundant potential that surrounds you so that you live a life of peace and happiness with periods of challenging growth.

Richard G. Scott

#42. If you're the type of person who wants to associate exclusively with those who perfectly mirror your own ethical worldview, you're reducing significantly the scope of your potential life experience.

Chuck Klosterman

#43. Even though I don't agree with either Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann on virtually anything, I do think the unique scrutiny - because of their gender and highlighting the potential conflict between them is a product of the media's desire for juicy storylines. I think it's inappropriate.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#44. I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.

Nathan Wolfe

#45. But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be.

Richard Serra

#46. If you are in a big city or on an online dating site, you are flooded with options. Seeing all these options, like the people in the job example, are we now comparing our potential partners not to other potential partners but rather to an idealized person whom no one could measure up to?

Aziz Ansari

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

Joel Osteen

#48. Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.

Steve Martin

#49. Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information

William Hunter

#50. The sharing of goods and resources, from which authentic development proceeds, is not guaranteed by merely technical progress and relationships of utility, but by the potential of love that overcomes evil with good.

Pope Benedict XVI

#51. One of the worst things you can die with is potential.

Henry Cloud

#52. I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion ... So I struggle with that all the time.

Idina Menzel

#53. She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone?

Nora Roberts

#54. Products with higher user engagement have the potential to grow faster than their rivals.

Nir Eyal

#55. Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it.

Sean Penn

#56. Out of communion with Me comes creativity. Creativity is My life force, giving release to new potential and new things.4

Dale A. Fife

#57. 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

#58. We are a country with great potential. We have the political will to make deep changes in a just and equitable way, to put our country back on a development path, to meet the challenges of a new world.

George Papandreou

#59. We have to define future worlds by imagining them first together.
Otherwise, we will deal with no man's lands and potential conflicts.

Toba Beta

#60. We work with the people not out of pity but out of respect for their potential for growth and development, both as individuals and as communities.

Y. C. James Yen

#61. 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

#62. What a great teacher, a great parent, a great psychotherapist and a great coach have in common is a deep belief in the potential of the person with whom they are concerned. They relate to the person from their vision of his or her worth and value.

Nathaniel Branden

#63. You came into this world pregnant with unlimited potential.

Myles Munroe

#64. Don't try to get even with those who wrong you, get ahead.

Mensah Oteh

#65. We were still able to see the phone records of a potential terrorist cause, we held them, now you have to hope the phone company still has them, you have to argue with their chief counsel by the time you get access to it, and try to find out who they've been talking to before it's too late.

Barack Obama

#66. Potential is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Mark Batterson

#67. I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith.

Max Lucado

#68. With careful guidance and mentorship, you will reach your highest-self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#69. I'd forgotten that the best part of dating wasn't the actual dating at all but the talking about it: the analysis of potential new boyfriends with your girlfriends.

Liane Moriarty

#70. You make on the Womankind's greatest mistakes: falling in love with a man's potential

Karen Marie Moning

#71. By the time I was a senior in high school, I knew I wanted to move to Silicon Valley and learn more about computers and the Internet. I just fell in love with technology and the potential of everything the Internet had to offer.

Brit Morin

#72. The discovery in art is often gradual, a process of minor discoveries riddled with uncertainties and the potential for making that which is discovered vanish before your eyes, like a mirage.

Geoff Dyer

#73. Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the perfect place to become not someone else, but someone new.

Candice Millard

#74. Choosing a mate is not a matter of can they do the job, rather will they. A partner of "potential" doesn't make for a happy marriage. Their actions have to be in line with your needs.

Shannon L. Alder

#75. The difference of somebody of winning and losing, has nothing to do with their genetics, has nothing to do with their potential.

Greg Plitt

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

Denise Morrison

#77. The erruption of feelings & emotions that follows a near-death exerience, or any event that causes us to stop & look deeply at the reality of our lives, is ripe with the potential for insight & clarity.

Allan Lokos

#78. For all the girls in all the worlds.
May you feel strength with your first breath,
realize your unlimited potential for greatness on your second, and follow your dreams on your third.

C.S. O'Kelly

#79. Wherever there is abuse there is also corruption. Politics, philosophy, theology, science, industry, any field with the potential to affect the well-being of others can be destroyed by abuse and saved by good will.

Criss Jami

#80. You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.

Myles Munroe

#81. My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret.

Evelyn Waugh

#82. 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

#83. We were secret sisters with a plan for world domination, potential bubbling around us like champagne.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#84. 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

#85. Women's potential to disrupt patriarchy and make men vulnerable is why it's so easy for women to make men feel foolish or emasculated through the mildest humor that focuses on maleness and hints at women's power to stop going along with the status quo.

Allan G. Johnson

#86. The only thing that makes me put down a book is if the characters are boring, or the situations aren't fraught with the potential for some great change or I don't mind if an author torments his protagonist, but I do expect a decent payoff in the end.

Michael Boatman

#87. In an age where community involvement and partnerships with civil society are increasingly being recognized as indispensable, there is clearly a growing potential for cooperative development and renewal worldwide.

Kofi Annan

#88. The aficionado prefers a crazy bomb to a mediocrity, because the musical as a form has such potential as entertainment that the merely adequate can fatigue the spirit while the disaster can amuse with its drastic misjudgments and desperation gambles.

Ethan Mordden

#89. The actual and potential harm of use of the drug is not great enough to justify intrusion by the criminal law into private behavior, a step which our society takes only 'with the greatest reluctance'.

Raymond P. Shafer

#90. Maybe this is common to all those who lose someone whom they have loved deeply. Making contact with another potential partner, another lover, becomes an act of reconstruction, a building not only of a relationship but also of oneself.

John Connolly

#91. As a scouting department, with the confidence we have in our player development, if a guy has the potential that we think they have and the makeup and they stay healthy, we think they will be a productive Major Leaguer. We take a lot of pride in that.

Roy Clark

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. The sages advise us to study Torah lishma-"for its own sake" rather than to impress others with our scholarship. A paradox of parenting is that if we love our children for their own sake rather than for their achievements, it's more likely that they will reach their true potential.

Wendy Mogel

#95. The Internet is changing the way we think of our relationship with government; it has the potential to bring to life what Abraham Lincoln said about the presidency being an instrument of the people.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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

Tony Abbott

#97. Working to my potential.' It's like every teacher I have has some sort of manual to use when talking to me. She finished with, 'You have so much going for you,' which was the dumbest thing anyone, even Laurie, has ever said to me.

Elizabeth Scott

#98. I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way artistic or a potential mentor to a budding writer, and yet this is what I became.

Graham Swift

#99. In the end, yoga has less to do with what you can do with your body and more to do with the happiness that unfolds from realizing your full potential.

Rod Stryker

#100. emotional cost of potential trade-offs does more than just diminish our sense of satisfaction with a decision. It also interferes with the quality of decisions themselves.

Barry Schwartz