Graydon Carter Quotes

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

For a lot of different reasons I didn't fulfil my potential.

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

I never got the chance to meet Linda Brown; there were several times we were supposed to meet or be on the same stage together, but life gets in the way, and it never happened.

My 20s were a lost decade. I didn't do much of anything.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

When you get older, it's not about what you did that you regret, it's what you didn't do.

An emotion that lives with me is a sense of 'what might have been' had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Every opportunity passed is lost.

I don't regret what I've done but some of the things I didn't do.

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

We all know of people who thought they could to it (whatever “it” is) tomorrow. We have all procrastinated on such a way, and often to our personal regret. It happens time and again, putting off things that we convince ourselves might be better, more meaningful, more appropriate for another time. So often that better time either never comes or really isn’t better or more appropriate after all. And then, sadly, the window of opportunity -to do something great- closes.

If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.

I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting

When I was a kid, I thought history was the most boring subject of all. I shouldn't blame my teachers; I should blame me, but I'll blame them.

It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.

Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to.