Maximizing Potential Quotes

The good is the enemy of the best.

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

The goal in life is the same as in basketball: make the effort to do the best you are capable of doing--in marriage, at your job, in the community, for your country. Make the effort to contribute in whatever way you can. You may do it materially or with time, ideas, or work. Making the effort to contribute is what counts. The effort is what counts in everything.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible.

You have to do more than you get paid for because that’s where the fortune is.

It has been my observation that the happiest of people, the vibrant doers of the world, are almost always those who are using - who are putting into play, calling upon, depending upon-the greatest number of their God-given talents and capabilities.

What you do in practice is going to determine your level of success. I used to tell my players, 'You have to give 100 percent every day. Whatever you don't give, you can't make up for tomorrow. If you give only 75 percent today, you can't give 125 percent tomorrow to make up for it.'

My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.

I think, mostly for people on the outside, it's a lot about numbers or stats. More or more. That's how the football world is going, in that direction. But I'm not really looking into it. I'm just trying to be the best I can, to create as much as possible.

People who get comfortable in their spirit miss what they were created for. They were created to magnify the glory of the world.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

I hope to stay on 'Glee,' I hope to still be a 'Housewife' and I hope to do 'The New Normal.' I just want to do it all! Why not? I'm only going to be young for a little while longer.

People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

The good is always the enemy of the best.

Success is about taking advantage of opportunity.

You can have it all, but you can't do it all.

There's a lot of hours in the week if you use them properly.

One should do what one is best at on as large a scale as possible.

God gave me all this; why waste the talent that he gave me? Why not go full throttle with it all and try to become in the class with the greatest players that ever played the game? That's just a great feeling.