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0478  P
“What lies behind you and what lies before you pale in significance to what lies within you.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
POTENTIAL, Self-Confidence, Excellence

0479  P
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
POTENTIAL, Attitude, Self-Confidence, Doubt, Excellence, Optimism, Individualism

0480  A
“Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.” — Alfred A. Montapert
POTENTIAL, Personal Management, Planning, Chance, Accountability

0481  A
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
POTENTIAL, Self-Confidence, Attitude

0482
“Consider well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability.” — Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace
POTENTIAL, Self-Confidence, Doubt, Prudence, Excellence, Pessimism 

0483
“Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.” — Lin Yutang
POTENTIAL, Self-Confidence, Excellence, Prudence, Adversity, Failure

0484
“A realistic assessment of my strengths usually turns up several weaknesses also. Becoming more self-accepting involves not only awareness of strengths but also the acceptance of my weakness not in the sense of not wanting to do something about them, but in the sense of not letting them block the use of my strengths.” — David G. Jones
POTENTIAL, Self-Confidence, Doubt, Pessimism, Adversity, Perception, Excellence

0485  A
“Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.” — Henry Jackson Van Dyke, Jr.
POTENTIAL, Self-Confidence, Excellence, Pessimism, Genius

0486
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
POTENTIAL, Excellence, Age, Change

0487
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.” — Henry David Thoreau
POTENTIAL, Excellence, Optimism, Perseverance, Attitude

0488  A
“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you do hold well.” — Josh Billings
POTENTIAL, Chance, Wealth, Excellence

0489
“What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.” — Marcus Tulius Cicero
POTENTIAL, Excellence, Perseverance

0490  A
“Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.” — Charles M. Schulz
POTENTIAL, Excellence, Age

0491
“We become how we act.” — William James
POTENTIAL, Character, Excellence, Change

0492
“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.” — George Eliot
POTENTIAL, Character, Experience

0493  A
“One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.” — George Jean Nathan
POTENTIAL, Perception, Excellence, Individualism

0494
“Funny how people generally can do more than they think they can, and almost always do less than they think they do.” — Unknown
POTENTIAL, Procrastination, Excellence, Attitude

0495
“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
POTENTIAL, Motivation, Leadership, Honor

0496
“Dream after dream ensues, and still the dream that they shall still succeed, and still are disappointed.” — William Cowper
POTENTIAL, Procrastination, Motivation, Personal Management, Failure

0497  C
“In idle wishes fools supinely stay,
Be there a will - and wisdom finds a way.” — George Crabbe
POTENTIAL, Wisdom, Personal Management, Procrastination

0498  P
“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
POTENTIAL, Procrastination, Winning

0499
“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.” — Leonardo Da Vinci
POTENTIAL, Excellence, Failure, Planning

0500  H
“My one regret in life is that I’m not someone else.” — Woody Allen
POTENTIAL, Happiness, Excellence

0501
“Opportunity’s favorite disguise is trouble.” — Frank Tyger
POTENTIAL, Optimism, Adversity

POTENTIAL Cross-References
Wealth—42, 44 • Excellence—60-61, 73 • Motivation—89, 102 • Optimism—117, 119 • Perseverance—140 • Self-Confidence—203-207 • Prudence—230 • Happiness—243 • Procrastination—258, 266 • Adversity—306 • Sadness—379 • Failure—391 • Attitude—407 • Personal Management—441 • Knowledge—527, 537, 553 • Perception—610, 621 • Vision—645, 647 • Chance—657, 665, 669 • Genius—702 • Originality—724 • Innovation—740 • Patience—753 • God—984 • Leadership—1133, 1139, • Accountability—1150, 1152 • Reward—1195 • Government—1269, 1274 • Speeches—1402 • Age—1439 • Change—1452 • Death—1474 • Health & Fitness—1476 • Habit—1494-1495