"Youth is wasted on the young."
— Oscar Wilde

"Potential has a shelf life."
— Margaret Atwood (Cat's Eye)

"You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished."
— Neil Gaiman (The Graveyard Book)

"If you limit your choice only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."
— Robert Fritz (The Path of Least Resistance)

"I have a feeling that fufilling my potential would really cut into my sittin' around time."
— Maria Bamford

"It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts."
— Ella Fitzgerald

"It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities."
— James E. Faust

"Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never do back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger hold you back from striving toward the summit of fulfillment."
— John O'Donohue (Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom)

"Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life."
— R.A. Salvatore (Streams of Silver)

"The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a
new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be
released and channeled toward some great good.
"
— Brian Tracy

"there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Apparently, before we are born, each of us experiences a vision of what our life can be, complete with reflections on our parents and our tendencies to engage in particular control dramas, even how we might work through these dramas with these parents and go on to be prepared for what we want to accomplish."
— James Redfield (The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision)

"she was released from her body, and, being released, she continued her journey elsewhere, high in the firmament where soul material gathers and plays out all the dreams and joys of which we temporal beings can barely conceive, all the things that are beyond our comprehension, but even so, are not beyond our attainment if we choose to attain them, and believe that we truly can."
— Garth Stein (The Art of Racing in the Rain)

"I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that gets watered or it doesn't."
— Dean Koontz (Relentless: A Novel)