potential greatness Quotes

Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness.

Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.

The mind of man is capable of anything.

Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be?

Well I've said it before and I'll say it again — America's best days are yet to come. Our proudest moments are yet to be. Our most glorious achievements are just ahead.

You will not be able to tell that they are capable of greatness until you provide them with a packed house, a 3-and-2 count and the game is on the line.

Like every person, every thought has the potential to become something great.

I am addicted to cereal. I am one of those people who just loves their cereal morning, noon and night. Kellogg's message is what I tell my kids every single day, which is: You've gotta start off your day right with a good, healthy breakfast to give yourself the potential for greatness.

It gets laughed at because it is a small town, I know, but nevertheless it is a place where great men may be born any day, for fair winds and foul blow right on over it without distinction.

For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

Greatness is what we on the brink of.

It is a pity that Elizabeth and I cannot marry each other. Our children would have gained mastery over the whole world.

I really believe there is the possibility of something great that can happen in the right hands.

Great has been our past, wonderful is our present, and glorious can be our future.

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

But what is great can only begin great.

A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.