61 LDS Quotes On Potential

Perhaps you don’t consider yourself all that useful; perhaps you don’t consider yourself a blessing in somebody’s life. Often, when we look at ourselves, we see only our limitations and deficiencies. We might think we have to be “more” of something for God to use us–more intelligent, more wealthy, more charismatic, more talented, more spiritual. Blessings will come not so much because of your abilities but because of your choices. And the God of the universe will work within and through you, magnifying your humble efforts for His purposes.

Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf | A Yearning for Home

Topics: Blessings, Potential, Service

“The Holy Ghost can bring you power to perform beyond your natural abilities. He can provide you with the help of unseen powers in all that you do – the power to speak with convincing authority, to receive promptings that enable you to say things you had not planned, and to receive impressions, which if heeded, bring blessings to you and others. Mortals may have great abilities and potential, but however great these mortal powers may be, they are only a shadow of the powers that can be claimed through a linkage with the Holy Spirit.”

Carlos E. Asay | “Courting the Spirit,” New Era, August 1990, p. 35

Topics: Growth, Holy Ghost, Potential

“The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better.”

David O. McKay

Topics: Becoming like God, Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Perfection, Potential, Purpose

“May I invite you to rise to the great potential within you. But don’t reach beyond your capacity. Don’t set goals beyond your capacity to achieve. Don’t feel guilty or dwell on thoughts of failure. Don’t compare yourself with others. Do the best you can, and the Lord will provide the rest. Have faith and confidence in Him, and you will see miracles happen in your life and the lives of your loved ones.”

Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf | September 2009 Liahona

Topics: Goals, Miracles, Perfection, Potential, Self-mastery

“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.”

Winston Churchill

Topics: Diligence, Growth, Inspirational Quotes, Potential, Short Quotes, Work

“We humans have a lamentable tendency to spend more time theorizing reasons behind human suffering, than working to alleviate human suffering, and in imagining a heaven above, than creating a heaven in our homes and communities.”

Terryl and Fiona Givens | The God Who Weeps

Topics: Being Called & Callings, Leadership, Potential, Purpose, Service

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Topics: Being Called & Callings, Inspirational Quotes, Leadership, Motivational Quotes, Potential, Purpose, Service

“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”

Bryan Stevenson | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Topics: Atonement, Perfection, Potential, Repentance

Moral creativity does not mean making up new morals. God’s law is God’s law. Rather, moral creativity has to do with the kind of creativity needed in order to be moral. It has to do with the kind of creativity needed to break bad habits. Or the kind needed to breathe life back into broken relationships. Or the kind needed to unbalance cycles of anger or violence. Or the kind needed to see past prejudices. Or the kind needed to be something more.

Adam S. Miller | Moral Creativity

Topics: Growth, Habits, Morality, Potential

The Lord loves each of us too much to merely let us go on being what we now are, for he knows what we have the possibility to become!

Elder Neal A. Maxwell | “In Him All Things Hold Together”

Topics: Inspirational Quotes, Plan of Salvation, Potential, Salvation, Short Quotes