Potential & Possibility Quotes

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

I believe in the potential of all things possibly imagined that can be made into a reality. My uncle was a Swedish scientist, and in the 1970s, he would speak of computers controlling most things in the future and self-driving cars and wireless communication. All the things that we are living with now.

If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.

The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

The future is as bright as the promises of God.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

Playful stimulation probably hits all kinds of synaptic possibilities. It is all make-believe and all over the map. The potentiality of the synapses and the potentiality of playfulness are a beautiful marriage.

Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.

There is great potential for investments that are built around improving social, environmental, and economic conditions.

The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Hope is trust in God's promises, faith that if we act now, the desired blessings will be fulfilled in the future.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.

The potential for synthetic biology and biotechnology is vast; we all have an opportunity to create the future together.

Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

Anything's possible in politics.

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.

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.

While we cannot predict the future, we will most surely live it. Every action and decision we take - or don't - ripples into the future. For the first time, we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct those ripples.

Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches endlessly before you where your thoughts are not shackled. But when we say 'impossible,' we have already reached a dead-end in our minds. So dwell on possibilities to open up your horizon.

Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Everything is always feasible if you run a corporate finance exercise: you can always try to come out with a justification on how things could work. But the real issue is to say how do you translate that into practice.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing.

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

You see opportunity... Opportunity is like a window: every once in a while, it opens, if you're ready for that opportunity. So be prepared, work hard, and follow your dreams.