Potential Greatness Quotes & Sayings

To submit one's self to one's gift is to submit oneself to education and self-development and to devote enough time to improve one's gift — Sunday Adelaja

Love is revealed progressively. — Mensah Oteh

They can't denied who I am. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In order to do something you've never done,
you've got to become someone you've never been. I
think that all of us have great potential within us,
but greatness is a choice; it's not our destiny. And in
the pursuit of our dreams we are introduced to trials,
failures and disappointments , which take us to the
door of discovery and greatness. — Les Brown

A super-legislator body is not what the court was intended to be, When I ponder our country and its greatness, its weakness, its potential, my heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization, less finger-pointing, less bitterness, less mindless partisanship. — Tom Coburn

We tend to look at successful athletes and make them almost bigger than life. I have seen many young men who have achieved greatness. I have also seen those who have come up a little short of their potential. I do know that those who succeed have been able to recognize within themselves the potential to do something well and then work hard to prepare themselves for that eventual opportunity. Others wait for the opportunity to come and then start to work, thus coming up a little short. — LaVell Edwards

Most rules are made by people with no authority who want to control and limit you from reaching your true potential. Ignore them, break their rules, and wave at them as you soar past them to greatness. — Dan Pearce

You carry greatness disguised in tiny potentials. — Israelmore Ayivor

You can always live extraordinary live.
You are born to reach your full potential.
The only limit is yourself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Walk in love and you will appreciate people for who they are. — Mensah Oteh

The limitless mind lets us dream and examine and explore. It opens us up to opportunity. We come up with a desire, a clear, fresh perspective, and a potential goal to observe from afar. And we wonder, is this it, the right choice, the best choice to follow? — Lorii Myers

You have great talent for great contribution to humanity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Your identity or potentials need to develop relevance, get education, possess content, technical improvement to be relevant to time and the present context. The anointing of yesterday will not do for the work of today. — Ikechukwu Joseph

Stop trying to understand people. Love them instead. — Mensah Oteh

All I'm suggesting is that greatness and goodness is a potential in a majority of humans, not a reality. — Amish Tripathi

Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller. — Donald Miller

Anyone who wants to be great and influential person should be ready to pay the highest price in order to develop their gifts and submit themselves to this gift — Sunday Adelaja

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

What will I do with the fact that I am only one? I will realize that everyone who has changed history was also only one. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Because we have a sense of completion within us, and because we have the will and desire to reach that state of completion, human beings have the potential for greatness and can become greater at any time. — Ilchi Lee

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

Great stories strengthen us to be great souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We are risk averse by nature - but the only way you can reach your full potential is by taking chances. Understand that you are capable of far more than you've achieved, believe that you have something of value to share with the world, and take care to step outside of your comfort zone and into your greatness. Your courage will inspire others to do the same. — Les Brown

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

When I am around people, my heart and soul radiate with the awareness that I am in the presence of greatness. Maybe greatness unfound, or greatness undeveloped, but the potential or existence of greatness nevertheless. You never know who will go on to do good or even great things or become the next great influencer in the world - so treat everyone like they are that person. — Kat Cole

There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity. — Buck Rodgers

I am only one. The best person I can possibly be. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In your hands you hold the seeds of failure - or the potential for greatness. — Zig Ziglar

I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism. — Elizabeth Gilbert

We are all One. The beauty in one person is shared by all. The life path of one individual blesses everyone. The expression of Life neither originates within a single human, belongs to that person, nor remains within the personal boundary. Life is energy and, as such, it belongs to all, reaches all, and blesses all. — Donna Goddard

Your Presentation is Your Capability. — Aayushi Jain

Every person is different and has a different contribution to make. No one is destined to fail. — Henry B. Eyring

The willingness to challenge hardships taps the power within human beings to transform even a place of tragedy into a stage for fulfilling one's mission. — Daisaku Ikeda

From the beginning, man could look up at a vast universe dotted by innumerable stars to find every evidence that he was nothing. This evidence only grows stronger as science and technology record an expanse of galaxies filled with planetary solar systems beyond any visible end. Man is but a grain of sand lost on an endless seashore, and yet he believes with conviction in his own greatness. He is either a divine soul intuitively aware of his inherent, limitless potential - or he is a blind fool. — Richelle E. Goodrich

When we make a habit of acting on the interests arising out of our authentic passions, our enthusiasm can open doors before we even realize the potential that lies beyond them. — Marian Deegan

When you look into the eyes of your children and grandchildren, when you picture their greatness and potential, do you feel that they are getting the education that is up to par with who they were born to become? — Oliver DeMille

Any time you think limitation it is not spiritual or god based, — Frank Healy

I have come to believe that our innate purpose is nothing more than to be the greatest version of ourselves. It is a process of refinement, improvement, and enhancement. When you are aligned with this process and living your purpose, you have the potential of creating something amazing. — Steve Maraboli

Push yourself to do more and to experience more. Harness your energy to start expanding your dreams. Yes, expand your dreams. Don't accept a life of mediocrity when you hold such infinite potential within the fortress of your mind. Dare to tap into your greatness. — Robin S. Sharma

Priceless diamonds often shape in worthless dirt. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Dreams are possibilities, cherish your dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

No viticultural region in America has demonstrated as much progress in quality and potential for greatness as ... the Santa Barbara region, where the Burgundian varietals Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are planted in its cooler climates. — Robert M. Parker Jr.

Don't cap your potential in the name of humility. First, maximize your potential, serve the world with your greatness and then worry about pride lol — Assegid Habtewold

There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it as it is. Such an one was Voltaire, of whom it was epigrammatically said: 'he expressed everybody's thoughts better than anyone.' But there are other men who attain greatness because they embody the potentiality of their own day and magically reflect the future. They express the thoughts which will be everybody's two or three centuries after them. Such as one was Descartes. — Thomas Henry Huxley

You can never meet your potential until you truly learn to love yourself. — Teresa Collins

I am addicted to cereal. I am one of those people who just loves their cereal morning, noon and night. Kellogg's message is what I tell my kids every single day, which is: You've gotta start off your day right with a good, healthy breakfast to give yourself the potential for greatness. — Summer Sanders

It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness. — Fred Hoyle

People will treat you unkindly at times. Forgive them always. — Mensah Oteh

Focus on creating value by finding and solving problems for others. — Mensah Oteh

You are perfect, not tomorrow, not in the future, but today. — Mensah Oteh

In all is built potential for greatness, but not all apply the efforts necessary for manifestation. — Sunday Adelaja

There is no cap to the potential within us, except when we place one on ourselves. — E'yen A. Gardner

As we mature and develop awareness to match our potential, our ability to enjoy full health is realized. As we enjoy this fruit, we sow the seeds of greatness in our children. — Rand Olson

Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self-esteem and they have compromised their great potential. They have settled for a life of mediocrity, days of despair and nights of tears. They are no more than living deaths confined to cemeteries of their choice. Yet they need not remain in that state. They can be resurrected from their sorry condition. They can each perform the greatest miracle in the world. They can each come back from the dead ... — Og Mandino

Education is realisation of our true potential — Lailah Gifty Akita

Some people are more talented than others. Some are more educationally privileged than others. But we all have the capacity to be great. Greatness comes with recognizing that your potential is limited only by how you choose, how you use your freedom, how resolute you are, in short, by your attitude. And we are all free to choose our attitude. — Peter Koestenbaum

The relentless desire to give is evidence of love. — Mensah Oteh

The strength to move forward when others stop, to keep going when others turn back, is the key to unlocking your greatest potential. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You don't want to just get by, you want to get ahead. You don't want to settle for mediocrity, you want to strive for greatness. You don't want to get lost in the crowd, you want to stand out and lead the charge. Pushing the limits of your potential isn't easy, but it will be worth it. — Michael J. Schiemer

The fact that you are born means you have the potential of benefiting yourself and generations — Abegunde Sunday O.

Develop a sincere curiosity and fascination towards people and life will become an adventure. — Mensah Oteh

Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness. — Pat Riley

People who have created their success through hard work and the support of others are always looking for ways to help those around them.
Don't be afraid to reach out. — Mensah Oteh

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

You are capable of anything. Dream great dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Although to our automatic brain, change always means potential danger. In order to calm that brain, it means embracing change so to turn on the light in our mind and open the door to our true potential. — Charles F. Glassman

Now is the time to realize your potential and look beyond disappointment and focus on blessings. They are all around you, if you only take the time to welcome them into your life. — Carlos Wallace

Intimacy should not be given casually; there should be a price. And it shouldn't be negotiable. — Mensah Oteh

For many women, by the time they realize how beautiful they were, it is too late. — Robert Black

Every day, people settle for less than they desearve. They are only parially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness. — Bo Bennett

Never allow impatience to prevent you for reaching your full potential. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Barack Obama's political roots are liberal, but he has always resisted buying into the brand of liberalism that denigrates American greatness and potential. — Nina Easton

Both desire and imagination are stored in the mind of the individual and when stretched, both have the potential to position a person for greatness. — Eric Thomas

You must dare greatly, to receive the grace for greatness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The best way to describe your total creative capacity is to say that for all practical purposes it is infinite. — George Leonard

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

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive. — Eric Burns

Each one of us holds the promise of greatness within our heart, minds, and souls. Our potential and where it leads us are as unique as our fingerprints, yet the way to access what is possible is universal. Affirm your life; find joy every day, even in the mundane; and embrace your strengths and use them better yourself and the world. — Marianna Olszewski

Greatness has a fragrance. Get close to it and that fragrance will arouse your potential. — Mensah Oteh

When the Chinese suspect someone of being a potential troublemaker, they always resort to one of two methods: they crush him, or they hoist him on a pedestal. — Lu Xun

Just because your feet are on the ground, doesn't mean you weren't born to fly. — Justin Young

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

To unleash your full potential recognise and acknowledge the greatness in others. — Moonish Sood

Every one of us has secret dreams and desires along with seeds of greatness implanted within us. You too have gifts to share with this world. There is buried treasure within you, waiting to be discovered. Your full potential has not been released yet. Your God-given divine destiny awaits you. — Joel Osteen

Believe in your own potential for greatness. — Evan Tanner

Appreciate your flaws to reach the potential of your greatness. — Behdad Sami

That which you or I think is most unique about ourselves we hide. In ordinary discourse, in the normal state, we share our common self, our superficial self. Yet what is most unique about us is what has the greatest potential for bonding us. When we share our uniqueness, we discover the commonality in greatness that defines everyone on the planet. — Robert E. Quinn

What's life without a little risk? Sometimes you have to gamble to achieve greatness, and it's stupid to let fear of the unknown stop you from achieving your maximum potential. — Jaycee DeLorenzo

The level of happiness you experience through your interactions depends on the quality of your walk in love. — Mensah Oteh

America's greatness depends on the ability of its citizens to make the most of their lives. Americans with disabilities are an enormous, often untapped reservoir of that potential. — William J. Clinton

I remember spending years of my life so upset about all of the life choices I felt I had available that I never moved. I was paralyzed by all the possibilities. I couldn't figure out which road would lead me to the fulfillment of my potential, this glorious, neurotic myth that lay always just in front of whatever I could manifest now. So I was always too scared to move, and fear of course is the great betrayer of self. The difference between those people living their potential and those who don't is not the amount of potential itself, but the amount of permission they give themselves to live in the present. — Marianne Williamson

When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what is pure and true within humanity: a statement of belief backed by ideas for change betterment, a call to those immutable values wherein lie the potential greatness of people individually and collectively? Such exhortation, such leadership is lamentably scarce. — Michael Short

Each of us have been born with the potential for greatness. We are equals. That doesn't mean we are born into equal circumstances, or have equal skills. What we do have in common, though, is the ability to apply ourselves to achieving that which we desire. — Justin Young

At some point you have to own up to how
great you are, how beautiful you are, to how much inner dignity and
potential you have. Drop complaining about what other people didn't give
you or do for you, or how they mistreated you. Take repossession of
your Self and you will rise to a level of greatness that has been yours
all along. — Michael Beckwith

Scholarships have provided financial support to enhance the potential of curious mind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every body should be given the chance and the necessary support to unearth their full potential. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Idris: Are all people like this?
The Doctor: Like what?
Idris: So much bigger on the inside. — Neil Gaiman

On differing perspectives:

"At birth, we're yanked from a warm, safe place and thrust into a world we have no way of comprehending. Childhood is a constant routine of punishment and confusion. Hell we're depressed and misunderstood as teenagers, then frightened and unprepared as we become adults. In midlife, we watch as our youth slowly slips away; our dreams for greatness becoming pathetic memories. Old age brings loneliness, infirmity, and the constant fear of death."

"At birth, we're rescued from a dark, silent place and ushered into a world full of wonder. Childhood is a magical time, free from responsibility. We're curious and filled with energy as teenagers, and then challenged to reach our full potential as we become adults. In mid-life, we watch as our pretensions slowly slip away, our dreams for happiness finally becoming realized. Old age brings wisdom, wonderful memories, and a passionate love of life. — Rick Reynolds

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world. — Rush Limbaugh

When you use your mind to its highest potential,
people will respect you.
When you use your heart to its highest potential,
people will praise you.
When you use your soul to its highest potential,
people will honor you.
When you use your life to its highest potential,
people will immortalize you. — Matshona Dhliwayo