Unrealized Potential Quotes

The greatest handicap a person has is not realizing his potential.

Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced - because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.

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

The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard, because in the graveyard we will find inventions that we were never ever exposed to, ideas, dreams that never became a reality, hopes and aspirations that were never acted upon.

Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.

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

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

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

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

Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.

There's not enough Ice Cubes out there. There's not enough Ice Cubes getting a chance to do their thing.

The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry our their dream.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Since those don’t hit financial reports, the opportunities you had but didn’t accept, most people don’t bother thinking about them very much. At least that is a mistake we don’t make. We rub our own noses in our mistakes in blowing opportunities, as we just did.

Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

I think there is a huge ceiling in Derek Carr. I think he has proven that.

I'm not usually comfortable to talk about things I haven't done yet.

The graveyard is the richest place on the surface of the earth because there you will see the books that were not published, ideas that were not harnessed, songs that were not sung, and drama pieces that were never acted.

Ian Fleming was my cousin, and he wanted me to play Dr. No, but by the time he got around to remembering to tell the producers, they'd already cast someone else. Spilt milk!