Dale Carnegie 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.

We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.

You have more potential than you think.

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

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

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

I do stuff that I don't even know I can do sometimes.

I'm afraid," Professor Piper said, "afraid that you're never going to discover what you're truly capable of. That you won't get to see-that I won't get to see-any of the wonder that's inside of you.

Maybe you can't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

I think everybody has talents that haven't been tapped into. They can go unnoticed your entire life.

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.

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

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.

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.

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

Often we don't have a good notion of what our talents are, because we have never had a chance to try them out.

No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a pond of still water, lying there like a mirror, there is no sign of the roar and thunder with which it can leap from the precipice, and yet remain what it is; or again, rise high in the air as a fountain. When water is as cold as ice, you can have no idea of the latent warmth contained in it.

All dreams reflect inborn creativity and ability to face and solve life's problems.

There is more inside you than you dare think.

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

Every one of us has secret dreams and desires along with seeds of greatness implanted within us. You too have gifts to share with this world. There is buried treasure within you, waiting to be discovered. Your full potential has not been released yet. Your God-given divine destiny awaits you.

Every person on the face of the earth has a gift. In some this reveals itself spontaneously, others have to work to find it.