William James Quotes

I didn't know I had it in me. There's more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We're capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.

Do you know how much energy, how many powers, how many forces, are still lurking behind that frame of yours? What scientist has known all that is in man? Millions of years have passed since man came here, and yet but one infinitesimal part of his powers has been manifested. Therefore, you must not say that you are weak. How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.

I believe every person has within themselves inexhaustible reserves of potential they have never even come close to realizing.

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

I see the human being is an incredible machine, totally undiscovered in many ways. Every one of us has a hidden tank of energy that comes out when it is needed.

We think that we have great potential but never reach it.

I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.

A lot of us have energy that we can tap into. We sell ourselves short.

There are so many things that we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.

The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.

The only limit is the one you set yourself.

We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.

Most human beings only scratch the surface of their real potential. They have no idea what they're capable of.

Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.

Every person is born with a seed of greatness.

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

Those among us who have achieved the most have achieved only a fraction of what ALL of us are capable of. You haven't even begun to scratch the surface!

Like every person, every thought has the potential to become something great.

Every person has seeds of greatness within, even though they may currently be dormant.

There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility.

The greatest handicap a person has is not realizing his potential.

To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.

We have far more ability than we give ourselves credit for.

Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds