It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done
- Samuel Johnson
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Aim for the stars and maybe
you'll reach the sky
- Unknown
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Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is
- Erich Fromm
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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be
- Johann Goethe
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Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself
- Alan Alda
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Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity
- Buck Rogers
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around
- Buscaglia
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Aim for the Stars and in the least,
wind up on top of the mountain
- Unknown (Thanks PKchip007@aol.com)
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility
- Kierkegaar
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