James Carville Quotes

Never underestimate yourself

Don't underestimate me.

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

I don't think people have seen yet what I can really do. Only appetizers!

I never underestimate anybody.

Every preseason, I feel I've done well, and it's just about being given a chance.

If you give people a chance, they shine.

When people make the mistake of underestimating me, that's when they are really in for their biggest surprise.

Sometimes people - especially people over 40 - underestimate what they really are capable of. They believe they're not capable of doing something great. I tell people who are over 40, "I don't want your best. I want better than that. I want better than what you perceive your best is."

You can't underestimate anyone.

Don't underestimate the things that I will do.

I have no doubts about what my talents can do.

We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries.

I think inevitably over the course of my lifetime there's been an underestimation of the American people, and I believe they are really the ones that give me hope. There's so much of "they don't know this, and they don't know that," and they're always denigrating.

I really look forward to knowing that something is always possible.

[People] are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.

People underestimate me, and that's fine. I prefer to go into negotiations being underestimated.

You can have all the potential in world, but unless you have confidence, you have nothing.

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.

Every man who can be a first-rate something -- as every man can be who is a man at all -- has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.

Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.

You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere.

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

In fact, I might be confident for the human race because of what the human race has given me. When I was in the street and bars, people always came up to me and said, "Don't stop, keep going."

Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.