Potential Quotes

I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

The three centuries of contact between the peoples of Africa, Europe and Asia on these shores have for too long been regarded as purely negative; as an object lesson in the incompatibility of peoples from different races, religions and cultures. Yet when viewed from another perspective, conflict can be a creative force through which the latent potential of a society is released.

Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

His life is circumscribed by racist laws and regulations that cripple his growth, dim his potential, and stunt his life.

I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.

Education without social action is a one‐sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure energy.

There are mountainous obstacles still separating Negroes from a normal existence. Yet one element in stabilizing his life would be an understanding of and easy access to the means to develop a family related in size to his community environment and to the income potential he can command.

In every age there comes a time when a leader must come forward to meet the needs of the hour. Therefore, there is no potential leader who does not have the opportunity to make a positive difference in society.

Holding back is so close to stealing.

Find out what your gift is and nurture it.

I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place.

The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is.

The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.