Myles Munroe Quotes

Among those people not graduating, there might be a Steve Jobs or Barack Obama. We'll never know.

I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.

Many ... have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never heard of them- and you never will .

A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them.

It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.

Scholastically, I did enough to get by, but I was smarter than I let on.

The Yardbirds sort of disbanded, and I was disappointed because I thought what we were doing was really good. I thought we were really onto something. I thought I was really onto something with these ideas that I had.

For me, the saddest thing in the world is always lost potential. That is always the most heartbreaking thing, when there's something left to be mined from a situation or a person that goes unexplored; that's a tragedy to me.

Inner talent gives you that ease. It's not a remarkable thing - just a knack that gives you a very nice life.

Johnny was an athlete who didn't play sport. His first love was baseball, but he didn't think he had it in him to be a professional.

I think there's a lot of hidden talents at the big clubs that aren't getting the chance to showcase their ability.

I think everybody has talents that haven't been tapped into. They can go unnoticed your entire life.

No player at the beginning of his career knows how good he can be.

I wasn't granted the opportunity to fight some of the best guys in the world. And that was something that was not on my end by any sense of the imagination.

Stuck as Adam Cartwright, I was only able to use about one-tenth of my ability.

My frustration is I quit Arsenal too soon. I left a club I loved without really showing how good I was.

Your days at the most cannot be very long, so use them to the best of your ability for the glory of God and the benefit of your generation.

There are so many things that we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.

Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.

Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible, feel, as they stand on the edge of the grave, that they are but human acorns with all their possibilities still in them, just beginning to sprout.

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done.

Bulb: potential flower buried in Autumn, never to be seen again.

Most human beings only scratch the surface of their real potential. They have no idea what they're capable of.