Human Potential Quotes

• By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Believe, Years

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• Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, 'I am of no value', is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought — so what are you lacking? If you have will-power , then you can do anything. It is usually said that you are your own master.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Believe In Yourself

  "Path To Tranquility".

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• Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth.

  William Watson Purkey

  Waiting, Humans, Invited

  William Watson Purkey, David B. Strahan (2002). “Inviting Positive Classroom Discipline”, p.11, National Middle School Association

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• Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Encouragement, Freedom

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• Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?

  Abraham Maslow

  Creativity, People, Might

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.185, John Wiley & Sons

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Educational, Knowledge

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• Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

  David Koepp

  Science, Years, Vastness

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• The greatest crime is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.

  Roger Williams

  Unlimited Potential, World, Helping

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• Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

  Bill Bradley

  Leadership, People, Vision

  "Unlocking Your Potential: The Keys to Discovering Your Hidden Treasure". Book by Wade D. Sadlier, 2011.

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• Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might not be why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.185, John Wiley & Sons

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• Human potential is the only limitless resource we have in this world.

  Carly Fiorina

  World, Limitless, Resources

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• With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world. According to my own experience, self-confidence is very important. That sort of confidence is not a blind one; it is an awareness of ones own potential. On that basis, human beings can transform themselves by increasing the good qualities and reducing the negative qualities.

  Dalai Lama

  Confidence, Wise, Wisdom

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2013). “The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• Human potential is the same for all. If you have will power, then you can change anything.

  Dalai Lama

  Will Power, Humans, Ifs

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  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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  "50 stunning Olympic moments No35: Wilma Rudolph's triple gold in 1960" by Rob Bagchi, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.

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• Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.

  Brian Tracy

  Self, Doubt, Enemy

  Brian Tracy (2006). “The Psychology of Selling: How to Sell More, Easier, and Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspiring, Real, Inspire

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.93, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Morning, Bed, Waste

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Success, Wine

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Achievement, Tragedy, Triumph

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.87, Beacon Press

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• We have to go for what we think we're fully capable of, not limit ourselves by what we've been in the past

  Vivek Paul

  Motivational, Attitude, Past

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• Never underestimate your ability to make someone else's life better - even if you never know it.

  Greg Louganis

  Volunteer, Underestimate, Ability

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• The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.

  Les Brown

  Life, Motivational, Opportunity

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• Your past is not your potential.

  Harvey Mackay

  Past, Full Potential, Your Past

  FaceBook post by Harvey Mackay from May 29, 2012

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• Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Inspirational, Wise

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