Life Quotes... Potential

“The greatest value in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.”
                                                Ben Herbster

“When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.”
                                                Eleonora Duse

“There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers, by living productively.”
                                                Erich Fromm

“Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.”
                                                Francis Bacon

“People mistake their limitations for high standards.”
                                                Jean Toomer

“In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others.”
                                                John Stuart Mill

“I consider a human soul without education like marble in a quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties until the skill of the polisher sketches out the colors, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein that runs through it.”
                                                Joseph Addison

“Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.”
                                                Nadia Boulanger

“And what is a weed?  A plant whose virtues have not been discovered.”
                                                Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every man believes that he has a greater possibility.”
                                                Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.”
                                                Samuel Johnson

“The biggest temptation is... to settle for too little.”
                                                Thomas Merton

“Nine tenths of modern science is in this respect the same: it is the produce of men whom their contemporaries thought dreamers - who were laughed at for caring for what did not concern them - who, as the proverb went, ‘walked into a well from looking at the stars’ -  who were believed to be useless, if anyone could be such.”
                                                Walter Bagehot

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