Potential Quotes

The Great Lakes region, and Congo in particular, have the potential to become the motor of African development.

God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.

We were looking for a fun event where we could attract people who are potential orchestra-goers. It's lighthearted, but it's still a lot of fun. It's a cultural thing, and it's a family thing.

Any time you create a technology that has the potential of saving 20 to 30 thousand lives in a year, one has to sit up and take notice. If you look at automotive accidents in the United States, the repair bill is about $55 billion each year.

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.

I'm being more assertive. It's something I can do. I'm just recognizing my potential.

Patrick is an outstanding young man who works very hard. He has unlimited potential because of his talent. Patrick has a natural instinct for getting open and going for the ball.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, "I am of no value", is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought - so what are you lacking? If you have willpower, then you can change anything. It is usually said that you are your own master.

We have eradicated previous outbreaks of high pathogenic avian influenza successfully in domestic birds using this method. Vaccination offers potential benefits but currently available vaccines are too limited to provide a general solution.

We live in a world where there is enormous potential for evil.

He's relentless on the boards and he has a high level of potential.

We found that the INS is placing the traveling public at potential risk because it does not consistently follow its own escort policy.

This is a very exciting place, ... The potential to do something here seemed to be really quite great and I was persuaded after talking with the leadership at the University ... that the kind of thing that I wanted to do on race and inequality would be perfect here. It just seemed too good of an opportunity to pass up.

The market is short-term oriented, so even a small rise in commodity prices drives the market as potential future earnings.

An operating-system vendor can mitigate at least some of the potential disadvantages of integration by providing customers the option of uninstalling the integrated application (or by offering non-integrated options to begin with).

Winners are candidates (who) have the strongest record of academic accomplishments and the biggest potential for college.

And his stand was remarkable because it was very well researched, very well presented. It had the potential to be contentious, but it didn't turn out that way.

Vietnam holds huge potential of becoming a significant trading partner and an emerging market for U.S. goods and services.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.