Jonathan Swift Quotes

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

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

I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

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

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

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

Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.

Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.

Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

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.

But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be played: beautiful to look at, graceful to hold - and yet if you'd never heard one in the hands of a musician, you wouldn't believe the new dimensions of beauty yet to be revealed.

Your potentialities are a great deal better than anyone ever permitted you to believe.

Shuttered like a fan no-one suspects your shoulder blades of wings.

It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do.

Bulb: potential flower buried in Autumn, never to be seen again.

What’s more, you’re loads better than you think you are.” “So why is it I get to thinking that way?” I puzzled. “That’s because you’re only half-living.” she said briskly. “The other half is still untapped somewhere.

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.

Potential is a priceless treasure, like gold. All of us have gold hidden within, but we have to dig to get it out.

Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?

Every person is born with a seed of greatness.

There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.

No one came to earth empty; everybody came with a contribution to make to their generation. Most of them never find that gift and even more die never releasing it.

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

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.