Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

What we do and accomplish is only the tip of the iceberg of what's possible for us.

Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.

I always feel like I'm very far from my potential.

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.

I always say to people that you have never seen the best of me, and that's what I mean - I've never been fully fit.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?

We think that we have great potential but never reach it.

You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.

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.

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

To be honest, I still feel like I haven't scratched the surface of where I want to be. If someone asked me for an autograph, I'd be like, 'Me? I haven't done anything yet !' I have much more to offer the world.

You know you have more to offer, and it gets frustrating when you aren't given the chance.

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

I'm bored. I'm bored with the kind of parts I get offered. I can do more.

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.

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

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work.

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.

Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

I didn't know I had it in me. There's more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We're capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.

We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.

deeds cannot dream what dreams can do