Unattained Goals Quotes

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

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.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

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

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

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

I don't feel secure at all. I don't know what actor would feel they've made it. I feel like I'm just starting.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

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

My wife says to me, 'You have achieved a lot'... yeah, I do know. But... there are a couple of things I haven't.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!

Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.

It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

Why do I put myself in a position to be cast aside or not considered as I would like to? Because I am a creative mind, because I still aspire to be one.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

When I went to New York to try and make it, I never thought it wouldn't happen.

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Man always dies before he is fully born.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.