Unused Talents Quotes

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

I feel ashamed if my hands are too clean and untouched. It's a measure of how much time I've spent travelling and poncing around.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.

I look around at people who had success so early and then didn't know what to do with themselves.

An unused life is an early death.

To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.

We shall at all times chance upon men of recondite acquirements, but whose qualifications, from the incommunicative and inactive habits of their owners, are as utterly useless to others as though the possessors had them not.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

I don't rise to the occasion when there's no occasion.

I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.

It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.

Don't go to the grave with life unused.

It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.