Unrealized Goals Quotes

That democratic socialism, the great utopia of the last few generations, is not only unachievable, but that to strive for it produces something so utterly different that few of those who wish it would be prepared to accept the consequences, many will not believe until the connection has been laid bare in all its aspects.

Sometimes you can't accomplish all your goals in life.

I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!

A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled.

We don't want to keep talking about 'potential.' That word is the most dangerous word in professional sports.

We are silent, considering shortfalls. There's not much time left, for us to become what we once intended. Jon had potential, but it's not a word that can be used comfortably any more. Potential has a shelf-life.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

My stepmother wanted to be an actress.

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do it.

It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.

When I was a kid, I really wanted a metal detector for Christmas, convinced I was going to find buried treasure and could retire at 12. Santa Claus brought me one, but sadly, that treasure was never realized. It's amazing how many bottle caps you have to dig up. But to be honest, that dream is still alive.

There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.

When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

My life was too short to acheive the conquest of the whole world.

None of us, of course, will ever read all the books we'd like, but we can still make a stab at it.

We have to have dreams, even if they never come true.

For a lot of different reasons I didn't fulfil my potential.

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.

I always wanted to act, but never thought of it as something serious to do.

But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.

Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?

When we were doing the cheerleading for this, I was excited about doing it because I always wanted to be a cheerleader. I always wanted to but I didn't get to because I was working.

I never got to Broadway. I would love to do that.