potential for greatness Quotes

It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.

America's best days are yet to come.

America's best days lie ahead. You ain't seen nothing yet.

For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.

People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.

It's like the time capsule with everything in it. Or like the seed that when you plant it, becomes the enormous tree with leaves and fruit. Everybody was in that little seed, and so everything can open. The tree of dance is like that. It just takes a long, long time to blossom.

Are you afraid of the good you might do?

We are all capable of greatness when we know without any doubt that we are directly connected to a higher purpose.

Every life is capable of greatness.

There is within each of us the possibility of magnificence. Every moment is an opportunity to make it manifest. Let the spirit awaken you to a miraculous life.

Are some people destined for a great fate, or to do great things? Or is it only that they're born somehow with that great passion - and if they find themselves in the right circumstances, then things happen? It's the sort of thing you wonder.

Everyone has an opportunity to be great because everyone has an opportunity to serve.

In your hands you hold the seeds of failure or the potential for greatness. Your hands are capable, but they must be used and for the right things to reap the rewards you are capable of attaining. The choice is yours.

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

There is no life which does not possess its own importance, no life which may not be touched by greatness at any time -- Yes, be touched by greatness and have a hand in it. (from The Mirror of Her Dreams)

There's a sort of dead passion in him. A spark that, had he more years to live, would be a wildfire.

In your hands you hold the seeds of failure - or the potential for greatness.

Always know you could be on the precipice of something great.

But what is great can only begin great.

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

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.

I've learned that nobody is either all good or all evil. We all make mistakes, but we all are also capable of accomplishing extraordinary things.