True Potential Quotes

• It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

  Barack Obama

  Wagons, Realizing, Greatest Leadership

  Commencement Address at Knox College, delivered 4 June 2005, Galesburg, Illinois

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  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

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

  "Pray It Forward: Daily Meditations" by Rowena Holloway, iUniverse, (p. 34), August 1, 2007.

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• To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.

  Picabo Street

  Motivational, Sports, Determination

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• If you let fear of the unknown stop you from taking chances, you will stifle your true potential.

  Steve Rizzo

  Teaching, Learning, Risk

  Steve Rizzo (2000). “Becoming a Humor Being: The Power to Choose a Better Way”, Full Circle Pub

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• It's easier to limit yourself, but if you do, you will never reach your true potential.

  Chris Witty

  Motivational, Accomplishment, Limits

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• Ignoring the expectations is what leads you realize the true potential

  K. K. Barrett

  Expectations, Realizing

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• For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Art, Destiny, People

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• I was 'alone' amongst the animal kingdom and I required of myself to see what was truly going on inside me so that my own true potential could step forth. Therefore I died so that heaven could show me who I had become, within that showing me to myself as who I am, what I am going to be doing and where all of you fit into the picture.

  Timothy Treadwell

  Animal, Who I Am, Heaven

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• Adolescents who are absorbing negative messages about who they are and what is expected of them may sink to that level instead of realizing their true potential. As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote, “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being."

  Daniel J. Siegel

  People, Negative, Levels

  "Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain". Book by Daniel J. Siegel, 2013.

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• I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.

  Laura Wilkinson

  Sports, Want, Wells

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• There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.

  Henry Rollins

  Fighting, Bodybuilding, Iron Will

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• I still believe one of the most important choices is how we treat others. What good does it do you to build a huge muscular, impressive body if you are small and underdeveloped on the inside?  I’ve always felt that success begins on the inside and reaching our true potential gets blocked when we are small-spirited.

  Rich Gaspari

  Believe, Important Choices, Doe

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• Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then shape the wood to realize its true potential.

  George Nakashima

  Skills, Boards, Use

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• As children of God we are somebody. He will build us, mold us, and magnify us if we will but hold our heads up, our arms out, and walk with him. What a great blessing to be created in his image and know of our true potential in and through him! What a great blessing to know that in his strength we can do all things!

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Strength, Children, Blessing

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• By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.

  Robert Winston

  Mind, Discovering

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Girl, Children, Emotional

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• In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the statue of true potential.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Determination, Lying, Sanctuary

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• There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true potential. Most people must live with varying degrees of the shame and fear of not being fully in control of themselves.

  William S. Burroughs

  People, Degrees, Realizing

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• What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again.

  Eric Liu

  Diversity, Together, Way

  "Sworn-Again Americans" by Eric Liu, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

  Barack Obama

  Success, Encouragement, Money

  Commencement Address at Knox College, delivered 4 June 2005, Galesburg, Illinois

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• Motion pictures are just beginning to live up to their true potential of being immersive experience - going from beyond black and white flickering images to fully immersive 3D color high-definition. You don't even know where the real world starts and the fake world begins. And yet, none of that's going to matter unless the story and the emotions that they allow us to become invested in are something that we can recognize. Pixar is able to do this in ways that almost defies speculation.

  Tom Hanks

  Real, Black And White, Color

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• Your true potential will speak as loud as your willingness to listen will allow it.  If you simply breathe for the next 365 days, your life is going to be different, but is that the “different” you want to create in your life?  You have to make your possibilities welcome in your life.

  Mary Morrissey

  Different, Want, Next

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• Be the mirror in which people admire their true potential.

  Ron Kaufman

  Mirrors, Service Culture, People

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• Mumbai Indians will strive to build on our proud legacy of giving youngsters a platform to showcase their talent and realise their true potential.

  Nita Ambani

  Giving, Legacy, Mumbai

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• Comfort zones are deadly zones because you lose your true potential of what you can be, you start going with the status quo.

  Greg Plitt

  Comfort, Status Quo, Be You

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