Potential Quotes

You can kid the world. But not your sister.
Charlotte Gray

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
Michael Jordan

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

All you owe the public is a good performance.
Humphrey Bogart

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
Herodotus

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Jimi Hendrix

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
Marquis de Sade

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Orson Welles

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Robert E. Lee

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard Cohen

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereign.
Louis XIV

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.
G. H. Hardy

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
Allen Ginsberg

God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
Alfred Adler

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
Marianne Williamson

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.
Bill Hicks

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
Ralph Ellison

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
Stevie Wonder

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
Abdul Kalam

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
Abraham Maslow

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
Henry George

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
Ho Chi Minh

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

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Noel Coward

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.
Henry Clay

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Considering the amount of talent that comes out of this country, it should have been done 20 years ago.
Ozzy Osbourne

It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.