Have you ever wondered to yourself, “Am I living up to my full potential?” If so, worry not, because you are not alone. In fact, this is question that most high achievers often ask themselves. And the fact that you’re even asking yourself this question, means your headed in the right direction; upward and onward. That said, to encourage your growth, we’ve rounded up some of the most inspiring quotes about potential.
Our hope is that they’ll help you gain better clarity about your potential, and all the great things you’ve still yet to do in this life. But most importantly, we hope they inspire you to take action towards achieving your potential. So, if you’re ready to be inspired, let’s dive into these powerful quotes about reaching your potential:
BEST QUOTES ABOUT POTENTIAL
1. “Everyone has a potential to be something huge. Not everyone sees it.” – Colonel Sanders
2. “The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.” – Jim Rohn
3. “Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.” – Bruce Lee
4. “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” – John Maxwell
5. “You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.” – Rumi
6. “Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential.” – Denzel Washington
7. “Consult not your fears but your hopes and dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.” – Pope john XXIII
8. “We are all guilty of allowing so-called experts, or just people who have more experience in a given field than we do, to cap our potential.” – David Goggins
9. “True success is reaching our potential without compromising our values.” – Muhammad Ali
10. “You Can. End of Story.” – Cory Lewis
11. “The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” – Confucius
12. “Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.” – Gandhi
13. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs
14. “Potential is a priceless treasure, like gold. All of us have gold hidden within, but we have to dig to get it out.” – Joyce Meyer
15. “Continuouseffort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.” – Winston Churchill
16. “To uncover your true potential, you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.” – Picabo Street
17. “The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.” – Albert Schweitzer
18. “Faith will get you to a point. Luck will get you to a point. But to achieve the kind of success you dream about, you need to work. There are no shortcuts, you can’t cheat life, just get to work and don’t stop until you reach your highest potential.” – Denzel Washington
19. “The trial you encounter will introduce you to your strengths, remain steadfast… and one day you will build something that endures, something worthy of your potential.” – Epictetus
20. “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” – Ernest Hemingway
21. “There’s nothing anyone can do to prevent you from reaching your potential; the challenge is for you to identify your dream, develop the skills to get there, and exhibit character and leadership. Then, you need to have the courage to periodically reassess, make adjustments, and pursue a course that reflects who you truly are.” – Robert Steven Kaplan
22. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
23. “I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.” – Og Mandino
24. “Arrogance steals your potential. Preparation and effort accelerate your chances at reaching your potential.” – Patrick Bet-David
25. “If You’re Circle Doesn’t Inspire You… You Don’t Have a Circle, You Have a Cage.” – Anonymous
26. “Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.” – B. Alan Wallace
27. “Man’s greatest burden is unfulfilled potential.” – Dan Peña
28. “You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft, that you will die without ever realizing your true potential.” – David Goggins
29. “Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.” – Mary Kay Ash
30. “You always want to outwork your potential.” – Kobe Bryant
31. “Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential.” – Tony Robbins
32. “If you don’t learn how to untangle your feelings from your actions, you’ll never unlock your true potential.” – Mel Robbins
33. “Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.” – Angela Duckworth
34. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” – Paulo Coelho
35. “Your potential is limitless. You are unique, valuable, capable, and worthy of the dreams in your heart. Most of all, you have what it takes.” – Marie Forleo
36. “If you principles are the foundations of who you are, then your potential is limitless.” – Ray Lewis
37. “Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.” – Roy T. Bennett
38. “You have the potential to be anything you want.” – Fran Watson
39. “Quit settling for reality and focus on your potential.” – Grant Cardone
40. “Persistence is the last key that unlocks potential.” – Anonymous
41. “The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart, this you will build your life by, this you will become.” – James Allen
42. “Difficulties and adversities viciously force all their might on us and cause us to fall apart, but they are necessary elements of individual growth and reveal our true potential. We have got to endure and overcome them, and move forward.” – Roy T. Bennett
43. “Life’s too short not to enjoy the journey to success. And success starts with taking care of yourself. We only get one chance at life—why not reach our fullest potential?” – Jim Rohn
44. “It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.” – Brad Henry
45. “We all have tremendous potential, and we all are blessed with gifts. Yet the one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt.” – Robert Kiyosaki
46. “Leadership is communicating people’s worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it themselves.” – Stephen R. Covey
47. “My purpose on this planet is to live up to my potential, everything else just adds to the experience.” – Isaac Mashman
48. “Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.” – Brian Tracy
49. “Aim high enough that you will have to stretch your ability and your potential to reach it.” – Mary Kay Ash
50. “Create your legacy by fulfilling your potential.” – Gino Norris
51. “Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.” – Sheryl Sandberg
52. “There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.” – Henry Ford
53. “All we are not stares back at what we are.” – W.H. Auden
54. “Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.” – Stephen Covey
55. “You have a greater potential than anyone who has ever lived before you! But you’ll never “make it” by sitting on your duff and telling the world how great you’re going to be, starting tomorrow.: – Og Mandino
56. “Everyone has inside himself a piece of good news! The good news is that you really don’t know how great you can be, how much you can love, what you can accomplish, and what your potential is!” – Anne Frank
57. “Most haters are stuck in a poisonous mental prison of jealousy and self-doubt that blinds them to their own potentiality.” – Steve Maraboli
58. “Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.” – Marilyn Ferguson
59. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” – Nido Qubein
60. “Anything you can imagine you can create.” – Oprah Winfrey
61. “You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.” – Neil Gaiman
62. “God’s greatest gift to you is your unlimited potential. Your greatest fit to God is to use that potential to the fullest.” – James Arthur Ray
63. “Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.” – Tim Ferriss
65. “Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.” – Steven Pressfield
66. “Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life is wasted.”
67. “Inside every seed is the potential for an incredible harvest.” – Farrah Gray
68. “Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.” – Harry Finlay
69. “The way we define happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential.” – Shawn Achor
70. “Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.” – David Viscott
71. “Just because fate doesn’t deal you the right cards, it doesn’t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.” – Les Brown
72. “Anything you want is possible. If, I didn’t believe it, I wouldn’t take the time to send this message to you.” – Tyler Perry
73. “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember you haven’t.” – Thomas Edison
74. “Do not bother to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” – William Faulkner
75. “You cannot afford to live in potential for the rest of your life. At some point, you have to unleash the potential and make your move.” – Eric Thomas
Quotes About Potential For Greatness
This last section is about that next-level potential known as greatness, your greatness. We believe that closer you get to achieving your potential, the closer you ultimately get to achieving a level of real-world greatness. So, below are few inspiring quotes about potential for greatness. May they inspire you to achieve yours. Enjoy
76. “You have the potential for greatness.” – Steve Harvey
77. “In your hands you hold the seeds of failure – or the potential for greatness.” – Zig Ziglar
78. “Greatness is the constant pursuit of realizing and increasing your potential.” – Tyler Basu
79 “Greatness is about fulfilling one’s potential. And one’s potential is defined as striving to maximize your gifts, your talents, your strengths.” – Atlas Rowe
80. “Most rules are made by people with no authority who want to control and limit you from reaching your true potential. Ignore them, break their rules, and wave at them as you soar past them to greatness.” – Dan Pearce
81. “Push yourself to do more and to experience more. Harness your energy to start expanding your dreams. Yes, expand your dreams. Don’t accept a life of mediocrity when you hold such infinite potential within the fortress of your mind. Dart to tap into your greatness” – Robin Sharma
82. “The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.” – Robert Kennedy
83. “Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.” – Wilma Rudolph
84. “The key to greatness is to look for people’s potential and spend time developing it.” – Peter Drucker
85. “Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” – William Shakespeare
86. “To achieve greatness on should live as if they will never die.” – Francois De La Rochefoucauld
87. “Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential.” – Eric Burns
88. “Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.” –Martin Luther King Jr.
89. “Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.” – Gordon B. Hinckley
90. “Activating your potential for greatness is a choice.” – Fabienne Fredrickson
FINAL THOUGHTS
There you have it, the some of best quotes about potential. We hope they inspired you to continue reaching for yours. And remember, reaching your potential isn’t a destination; it’s a journey that takes time.
So, be patient with yourself, be never stop stiving to become your greatest self.
Till you those aims,
STRIVE
