Unfulfilled Potential Quotes

We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

Youth is wasted on the young.

The most bitter pain among men: to have much knowledge but little power.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

I'm a big fan of Barry Sanders and I respect him a lot. He's a guy that a lot of people talk about. He retired early and fans would have loved to see him, like myself, play three or four more years.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

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

We have caused them to be barren and unemployed though each of them had been working and qualified in a trade from which he could make a living.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent

Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.

It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many, a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.

I'm squandering invaluable gray matter by censoring myself.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Hell is full of good intentions and wills.

President Kennedy's life and death represent both what is possible in America, and all of the work left undone.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.