untapped capabilities Quotes

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent

You came into this world pregnant with unlimited potential.

Potential just means you ain't done it yet.

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

... people are capable of more than their organizational positions ever give them the tools or the time or the opportunity to demonstrate.

[People] are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.

Each of us has much more hidden inside us than we have had a chance to explore. Unless we create an environment that enables us to discover the limits of our potential, we will never know what we have inside of us.

Within us is the unborn possibility of limitless experience. Ours is the privilege of giving birth to it!

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a page in the daily press without learning the specific time, place, and name of evil. But perhaps the most pervasive evil of all rarely appears in the news. This evil, the waste of human potential, is particularly painful to recognize for it strikes our parents and children, our friends and brothers, ourselves.

deeds cannot dream what dreams can do

We repose too much upon the actual, when we should be seeking to develop the possibilities of our being. It is true of nearly all of us, that what we have done is little compared with what we might have accomplished, or may hereafter effect.

We have our hands, we have our brains, we have the challenge all around us, and we have within (from whatever source) the will to strive. That is enough; there is no need to assert 'belief' in that which we do not, as yet, know.

When you are young, your potential is infinite. You might do anything, really. You might be Einstein. You might be DiMaggio. Then you get to an age where what you might be gives way to what you have been. You weren't Einstein. You weren't anything. That's a bad moment.

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.

You are full of potential. You are overflowing with creativity. There's nothing in your heart that you cannot accomplish.