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Quotations about potential

Charles de LintEverybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.

 - Charles de Lint

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Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tags:   potential  

David HumeThe richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces to its slothful owner the most abundant crop of poisons.

 - David Hume

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Horace He possesses dominion over himself and is happy, who can every day say, “I have lived.” To-morrow the Heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds or cheer it with clear sunshine; he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.

 - Horace

Tags:   change  life  potential