Katherine Anne Porter 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.

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

Man is such an amazing animal, and the possibilities are infinite for each person.

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

Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?

One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.

Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.

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

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things 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.

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.

I understood that I am a lot bigger than what I do, that I have a bigger potential.

I like the idea of infinite human potential, and a lot of my photography and filmmaking has been focused on that.

Every person can reach a full life.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being.

The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.

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.

It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.

A human being is like a seed. Either you can keep it as it is, or you can make it grow into a wonderful tree with flowers and fruits.

A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

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.

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

You're not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it.