When you talk about black entrepreneurship, you’re talking about addressing the foundation of what’s going on with our people when we don’t have any financial power. Our basic needs aren’t being met in a lot of cases, so there’s no way we’re going to be able to tap into our potential until we address those bottom-level base needs.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was ‚Einstein.‘

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

The Nation of Islam’s main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn’t want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people’s neighborhoods?

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we’d have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

Let the path be open to talent.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money their parents have. We’ve got to remember that. We believe that each of these young people is a vital part of the great American story.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

The leaders come up from the volunteers that do the work, and it’s amazing because then they do these incredible things in their community that they never thought they had the power to make that happen.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

Connectivity just can’t be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that’s why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.