Nurturing Potential Quotes

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

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

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

The best gift you can ever give your mentor is to grow. They feed off your growth. I believe that everyone has the seed of success inside, but too many people can't find it in themselves and as a result do not reach their potential. But there are those whose purpose in life is to fertilize the seed of potential in another, who are rewarded by seeing that person grow and blossom before their eyes. Raising up others to a higher level is a mentor's joy and sustenance.

Growing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation.

Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive it out. This is like trying to eject the darkness from a room without opening the shutters and letting in the light. As John Newton said, 'I cannot sweep the darkness out, but I can shine it out.'

Good leaders understand that they are stewards. They must find the best people they can, giving them the opportunity to join in the journey developing them, and encouraging them to reach their potential. But they must hold on to people lightly. Those who start with you seldom finish with you.

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.

Leadership is not just about giving energy ... it's unleashing other people's energy.

Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.

All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.

One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.

It comes down to taking care of the people in your program and making them the best they can be-not giving up on them and never failing to be there for them.

That the potential to become Level 5 exists in you and me and the people we work with and that it is then a process or a journey to nurture that seed... in a culture by and large that doesn't reinforce it.

the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.

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.

I'd like to try to inspire the youth, that's obviously where our future is and the kids are the ones you can mould and you can give them ideas and opportunities and I'd like to try to inspire all the young kids because I had a dream when I was young, that was to play for Australia.

Sometimes we don't build up our own cricketers enough.

Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.

Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.

The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams.

A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.

The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders.

I want to do small things, for small people, and to make the small people big.

Once you plant seeds of success, your tree will bear fierce fruit.