Positive Potential Quotes

I have become an American citizen, and I love this country. I think that this country has incredible potential for goodness, an incredible possibility for doing the wrong thing, too.

Any kid in the world can draw from strengths within - we all have the potential with that.

They are inherently good - the bad reactions aren't basic. Every human being is a child of God and has more good in him than evil - but circumstances and associates can step up the bad and reduce the good. I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.

People are inherently good. Our souls are magnificent and capable of extraordinary performance.

With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.

Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.

I think there's a good kid underneath everybody. I really do.

Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.

There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out.

I have something to say to the religionist who feels atheists never say anything positive: You are an intelligent human being. Your life is valuable for its own sake. You are not second-class in the universe, deriving meaning and purpose from some other mind. You are not inherently evil—you are inherently human, possessing the positive rational potential to help make this a world of morality, peace and joy. Trust yourself.

The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.

I don't believe in bad people. I believe that people, somewhere inside, have the potential to realize themselves.

There is a spark of good in everybody, no matter how deeply it may be buried. It is the real you.

Each person on this planet is inherently, intrinsically capable of attaining "dizzying heights" of happiness and fulfillment.

The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.