Kiefer Sutherland Quotes

There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

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

Sometimes when you miss out on points, it is a pity, it is a shame, because we tried to do everything in the game.

The worst nightmare would be not to achieve what I know I'm capable of.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

I should have done more. I did too little of everything.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.

If I sold something, and it didn't perform, I'd never forgive myself.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I feel I let my team down today. My heart is bleeding for everybody else. I felt like I should have gotten it done today. That's how it is. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't.

I trained myself to not get my hopes up, because there were so many times in the room where you'd be like, 'This feels amazing, this is a hit!' And it never saw the light of day.

We're so sure of what our unlived lives would have been like that we feel guilty for not living them - for not living up to our potential.

Sometimes films don't turn out the way they were envisioned on paper. And when that happens, one must just forget the entire episode.

I dreamed of turning pro as an Olympic medallist but I ended up turning pro as the kid who failed to make the Olympics.

I failed the most important people in my life, you know, on September 8, 2009. People who were relying on me more than anything.

Potential is like a summer crop. If it don't rain, it don't grow.

To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.

constituted a critical lapse in judgement and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely responsable

There is no pain worse than not achieving a dream when it is your fault. If God did not want you to have it, that is one thing. But if you do not get what you desire because you are lazy, there is no pain worse than that.

How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.

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