Overlooked Potential Quotes

The way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon.

There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.

Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.

Do we call the star lost that is hidden / In the great light of morn?

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it.

It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away.

I'm Fasinated by women who aren't making a great impression on people. I think there's probably something there that is more than meets the eye.

I think I was pigeonholed pretty early on. And I started late in my career. I was 33.

Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.

I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.

...there are persons who seem to have overcome obstacles and by character and perseverance to have risen to the top. But we have no record of the numbers of able persons who fall by the wayside, persons who, with enough encouragement and opportunity, might make great contributions.

I was kind of always the underdog.

I'm the little fat cruiser weight, write me off at your peril.

What I've noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it's so wonderfully fair.

I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.