• In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  4.4 · 13 votes · 52 reads

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• Lord we may know what we are, but know not what we may be.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.2 · 46 votes · 183 reads

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• Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  3.0 · 21 votes · 51 reads

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• Man is not made for defeat.

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  5.0 · 14 votes · 169 reads

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• Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whol

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.4 · 16 votes · 109 reads

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• Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.1 · 49 votes · 197 reads

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• Reach up as far as you can, and God will reach down all the way.

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 32 votes · 187 reads

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• Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

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  Sir John Eliot

  PoliticianBritish1592 · 16th century

  4.1 · 16 votes · 10 reads

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• Some people who think that everything is a nail, are down on themselves because they are not a hammer. They tend to deprecate their own unique talents and capacities to use a chisel or a pair of pliers.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 23 votes · 195 reads

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• The cynic says, ''One man can't do anything.'' I say, ''Only one man can do anything.''

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  John W. Gardner

  EducatorAmerican1912 · 20th century

  3.1 · 23 votes · 61 reads

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• The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.7 · 44 votes · 35 reads

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• The Lord doesn't always choose men for what they are, but for what they can become.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 23 votes · 76 reads

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• There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  3.3 · 6 votes · 81 reads

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• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.0 · 63 votes · 80 reads

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• We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.1 · 26 votes · 153 reads

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• What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity, intellect and resources - to do something about them.

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  4.0 · 55 votes · 136 reads

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• When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.7 · 59 votes · 99 reads

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• Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  4.2 · 11 votes · 27 reads

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