Wasted Potential Quotes

[When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advantages squandered.

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.

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.

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

It is too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.

The world is full of educated derelicts.

This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard's mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private school teacher herself.

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.

The thing about the movie 'Navy SEALs' is that it was just such a waste. The script could've been shaped to be much better, and you just hate to see all that talent and passion go to waste.

A film is a terrible thing to waste.

For me, the saddest thing in the world is always lost potential. That is always the most heartbreaking thing, when there's something left to be mined from a situation or a person that goes unexplored; that's a tragedy to me.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

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.

In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats

At its heart, 'Fat City' is not about boxing. It is a universal story of grim realities and toxic delusions. It is awash with awareness of chances blown, dreams stymied, precious time wasted, and all future prospects scorched to ashes by the process.

Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department.

I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause.

It's no use crying over spilt summits.

I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!

Too many lives go up in smoke - It's nice to laugh but don't be the joke.