“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” -R. Buckminster Fuller (Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller (1895 - 1983))
“You are as amazing as you let yourself be. Let me repeat that. You are as amazing as you let yourself be.” -Elizabeth Alraune
“We always may be what we might have been.” -Adelaide A. Procter (Adelaide Anne Procter (1825 - 1864)): “Legends and Lyrics” (1858), ‘A Legend of Provence’
“There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, ‘It all depends on me’.” -André Gide (André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869 - 1951))
“You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.” -E. O. Wilson
“Sometimes it’s the people that no one can imagine anything of that do the things that no one can imagine.” -Author Unknown
“You are meant to be whatever you dream of becoming.” -Edmund O’Neill
“Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.” -Author Unknown
“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.” -Hanoch McCarty
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” -Henry S. Haskins (Henry Stanley Haskins (1876 - 1957)): “Meditations in Wall Street” (1940), originally published anonymously; quotation commonly misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson or Henry David Thoreau
“Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are capable of greater things than we realize.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
“The real tragedy of life is not in being limited to one talent, but in the failure to use that one talent.” -Edgar W. Work
“You need never feel inferior. You need never feel that you were born without talents or without opportunities to give them expression. Cultivate whatever talents you have, and they will grow and refine and become an expression of your true self - appreciated by others.” -Gordon B. Hinckley (Gordon Bitner Hinckley (1910 - 2008))
“You may be whatever you resolve to be. Determine to be something in the world, and you will be something. ‘I cannot,’ never accomplished anything; ‘I will try,’ has wrought wonders.” -J. Hawes (Joel Hawes (1789 - 1867))
“Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.” -E. F. Schumacher (Ernst Friedrich ‘Fritz’ Schumacher (1911 - 1977))
“Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.” -Frank Tyger (1929 - 2011)
“If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.” -Muhammad Ali (Casius Clay)
“Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.” -Juvenal (Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (about C.E. 55 - C.E. 130)): as attributed in Maturin M. Ballou: “Edge-Tools of Speech” (1886), page 405
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans (1819 - 1880))
“We have to go for what we think we’re fully capable of, not limit ourselves by what we’ve been in the past.” -Vivek Paul
“It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784): as quoted in James Boswell: “The Life of Samuel Johnson” (1791)
“You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish - if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.” -Robert Collier (1885 - 1950)
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “Hamlet” (1600 - 1601), Act 4, scene 5, line 43
“You are more than what you may think of yourself as being, for you are what you are now, plus your potential.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912)
“Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881 - 1955)
“The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could be.” -John Grimes
“Do not set your limits by the limits of others.” -Robert Heckendorn
“Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.” -W. Clement Stone (William Clement Stone (1902 - 2002))
“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.” -Mary Kay Ash (1918 - 2001)
“If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.” -Bob Conklin
“You may have heard the phrase ‘a world without limits’ or ‘a life without limits,’ but remember those things start with ‘a you without limits.’ Take down the barriers, most of which exist only in the mind.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“There are powers inside of you, which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924))
“It’s not what you are, but what you don’t become, that hurts.” -Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
“You are as amazing as you let yourself be. Let me repeat that. You are as amazing as you let yourself be.” -Elizabeth Alraune
“We always may be what we might have been.” -Adelaide A. Procter (Adelaide Anne Procter (1825 - 1864)): “Legends and Lyrics” (1858), ‘A Legend of Provence’
“There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, ‘It all depends on me’.” -André Gide (André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869 - 1951))
“You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.” -E. O. Wilson
“Sometimes it’s the people that no one can imagine anything of that do the things that no one can imagine.” -Author Unknown
“You are meant to be whatever you dream of becoming.” -Edmund O’Neill
“Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.” -Author Unknown
“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.” -Hanoch McCarty
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” -Henry S. Haskins (Henry Stanley Haskins (1876 - 1957)): “Meditations in Wall Street” (1940), originally published anonymously; quotation commonly misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson or Henry David Thoreau
“Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are capable of greater things than we realize.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
“The real tragedy of life is not in being limited to one talent, but in the failure to use that one talent.” -Edgar W. Work
“You need never feel inferior. You need never feel that you were born without talents or without opportunities to give them expression. Cultivate whatever talents you have, and they will grow and refine and become an expression of your true self - appreciated by others.” -Gordon B. Hinckley (Gordon Bitner Hinckley (1910 - 2008))
“You may be whatever you resolve to be. Determine to be something in the world, and you will be something. ‘I cannot,’ never accomplished anything; ‘I will try,’ has wrought wonders.” -J. Hawes (Joel Hawes (1789 - 1867))
“Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.” -E. F. Schumacher (Ernst Friedrich ‘Fritz’ Schumacher (1911 - 1977))
“Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.” -Frank Tyger (1929 - 2011)
“If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.” -Muhammad Ali (Casius Clay)
“Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.” -Juvenal (Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (about C.E. 55 - C.E. 130)): as attributed in Maturin M. Ballou: “Edge-Tools of Speech” (1886), page 405
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans (1819 - 1880))
“We have to go for what we think we’re fully capable of, not limit ourselves by what we’ve been in the past.” -Vivek Paul
“It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784): as quoted in James Boswell: “The Life of Samuel Johnson” (1791)
“You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish - if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.” -Robert Collier (1885 - 1950)
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “Hamlet” (1600 - 1601), Act 4, scene 5, line 43
“You are more than what you may think of yourself as being, for you are what you are now, plus your potential.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912)
“Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881 - 1955)
“The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could be.” -John Grimes
“Do not set your limits by the limits of others.” -Robert Heckendorn
“Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.” -W. Clement Stone (William Clement Stone (1902 - 2002))
“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.” -Mary Kay Ash (1918 - 2001)
“If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.” -Bob Conklin
“You may have heard the phrase ‘a world without limits’ or ‘a life without limits,’ but remember those things start with ‘a you without limits.’ Take down the barriers, most of which exist only in the mind.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“There are powers inside of you, which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924))
“It’s not what you are, but what you don’t become, that hurts.” -Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
The potential within a tiny seed is to become a towering green leafy plant. The potential within you also is to become something more than what you are now.
“Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.” -Alan Loy McGinnis (1933 - 2005)
“You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?” -W. Clement Stone (William Clement Stone (1902 - 2002))
“Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.” -James R. Cook
“Within every person is the capacity to become something greater than he now is.” -Paul S. McElroy
“Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.” -Richard E. Byrd (Richard Evelyn Byrd, Junior (1888 - 1957))
“The average human being has the ability to achieve almost anything.” -Tom Hopkins (born 1944)
“Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery. These models of excellence will inspire you and guide you toward the fulfilment of your highest potential.” -Tony Buzan
“A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?” -Jane Wagner (born 1935)
“Imagine no limitations on what you can be, have, or do.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)
“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!” -J. K. Rowling (pseudonym of Joanne ‘Jo’ Rowling (born 1965)): “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” (8 July 2000); line spoken by character Professor Dumbledore
“There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.” -Jane Roberts
“Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
“Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but set his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.” -J. Herman Randall
“There isn’t a ruler, a yardstick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.” -Paul J. Meyer (Paul James Meyer (1928 - 2009))
“Let each become all that he was created capable of being.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 -1881)
“The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))
“You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as charity, self-sacrifice, honor, nobility of heart, you have an equal chance with everyone to be the most beloved and honored of all people.” - Archibald Rutledge
“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” -Malcolm Forbes (Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (1919 -1990))
“If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits.” -Don Ward
“The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.” -Bob Proctor
“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.” -Winston Churchill (Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 - 1965))
“To reach your greatest potential you’ll have to fight your greatest fears.” -Author Unknown
“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924))
“Few of us know what we are capable of doing . . . we have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out.” -Alfred A. Montapert (Alfred Armand Montapert (1906 - 1997))
“I never met a person, I don’t care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don’t care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. When he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.” -Preston Bradley
“It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.” -George F. Will (born 1941)
“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!” -Anne Frank (Annelies Marie ‘Anne’ Frank (1929 - 1945))
This is MFOL! . . . you already have all you need to go out into the world and begin to actualize, fulfill, and realize your true potential . . .
“Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.” -Alan Loy McGinnis (1933 - 2005)
“You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?” -W. Clement Stone (William Clement Stone (1902 - 2002))
“Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.” -James R. Cook
“Within every person is the capacity to become something greater than he now is.” -Paul S. McElroy
“Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.” -Richard E. Byrd (Richard Evelyn Byrd, Junior (1888 - 1957))
“The average human being has the ability to achieve almost anything.” -Tom Hopkins (born 1944)
“Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery. These models of excellence will inspire you and guide you toward the fulfilment of your highest potential.” -Tony Buzan
“A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?” -Jane Wagner (born 1935)
“Imagine no limitations on what you can be, have, or do.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)
“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!” -J. K. Rowling (pseudonym of Joanne ‘Jo’ Rowling (born 1965)): “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” (8 July 2000); line spoken by character Professor Dumbledore
“There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.” -Jane Roberts
“Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
“Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but set his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.” -J. Herman Randall
“There isn’t a ruler, a yardstick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.” -Paul J. Meyer (Paul James Meyer (1928 - 2009))
“Let each become all that he was created capable of being.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 -1881)
“The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))
“You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as charity, self-sacrifice, honor, nobility of heart, you have an equal chance with everyone to be the most beloved and honored of all people.” - Archibald Rutledge
“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” -Malcolm Forbes (Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (1919 -1990))
“If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits.” -Don Ward
“The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.” -Bob Proctor
“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.” -Winston Churchill (Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 - 1965))
“To reach your greatest potential you’ll have to fight your greatest fears.” -Author Unknown
“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924))
“Few of us know what we are capable of doing . . . we have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out.” -Alfred A. Montapert (Alfred Armand Montapert (1906 - 1997))
“I never met a person, I don’t care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don’t care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. When he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.” -Preston Bradley
“It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.” -George F. Will (born 1941)
“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!” -Anne Frank (Annelies Marie ‘Anne’ Frank (1929 - 1945))
This is MFOL! . . . you already have all you need to go out into the world and begin to actualize, fulfill, and realize your true potential . . .
