Top 55 Quotes About Unrealized
#1. If There Be Sorrow
If there be sorrow
let it be
for things undone
undreamed
unrealized
unattained
to these add one:
Love withheld
... restrained
Mari Evans
#2. Your subconscious is a powerful and mysterious force which can either hold you back or help you move forward. Without its cooperation, your best goals will go unrealized; with its help, you are unbeatable.
Jenny Davidow
#3. Come to believe that the fear of death is always greatest in those who feel that they have not lived their life fully. A good working formula is: the more unlived life, or unrealized potential, the greater one's death anxiety.
Irvin D. Yalom
#4. I had come to believe that the fear of death is always greatest in those who feel that they have not lived their life fully. A good working formula is: the more unlived life, or unrealized potential, the greater one's death anxiety. My
Irvin D. Yalom
#5. Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.
A.W. Tozer
#6. My unrealized ambition is to tend my vines, produce wine, and work like an artisan. I dream of rediscovering the old traditions and customs of wine growing, not necessarily to deny the technology which we have today, but to harness it and work in harmony with nature.
Gerard Depardieu
#7. We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted by defeats and unrealized hopes ... The hoplessness of which I speak is not limited.
Sidney Poitier
#8. A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
A.R. Ammons
#9. Think about what you think about is much more than a clever grouping of words. It's largely the difference between maximized and unrealized potential.
B. Tom Hunsaker
#10. Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific
state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.
Alan Watts
#11. I read too much as a child; I believe now that I can bookmark unrealized events in my life to return to them later.
Charlotte Shane
#12. I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.
Nicholas Sparks
#13. Each moment has an unrealized dimension of beauty that only your perspective can liberate.
Bryant McGill
#14. To weep not for the way things had once been but for the way things had been supposed to go and did not. People believed that they were haunted by bad memories, but that wasn't the truth. The most sinister hauntings were from unrealized futures.
Michael Koryta
#15. I was impatient in those days, busy with work and unrealized plans, and prone to see other people as unnecessary distractions.
Barack Obama
#16. To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.
Rollo May
#17. What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.
Sigmund Freud
#18. I am cotton candy on a rainy day
the unrealized dream of an idea unborn
from Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day
Nikki Giovanni
#19. His best talent had yet to be determined, unless you counted unrealized potential.
Charles Frazier
#20. Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.
Arthur Helps
#21. Sometimes I think my past life was unrealized. I met a tragic end - it might have been a car over a cliff. But it's true, I came from another time and place, and landed in Paris Hilton's backyard.
Christine Ebersole
#22. The notebook smelled the way old books do, like dust and unrealized potential.
Alex Flinn
#23. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.
D.H. Lawrence
#24. We have a complete void of progressive politics in this country right now. The will of the people goes ignored and unrealized. I'm searching for the people that can enter the political system, a strong third party. We need to consolidate.
Ani DiFranco
#25. The thought of how much happiness lay scattered across the universe, unrealized, in fragments, waiting for the right twist of fate to bring it together.
Leah Raeder
#26. Because of fear, I had forfeited strength, life, and beauty. I had lost a sense of my true self, and with that loss so much of what God wanted for me was yet unrealized.
Lisa Bevere
#27. Man is a continent, but his conscious mind is no larger than a back garden ... man consists almost entirely of unrealized potentials.
Colin Wilson
#28. Temporary feelings of regret are a normal part of the mourning process. This helps us retrieve our lost dreams. If we hold on to regret, we risk trapping ourselves in a prison of unrealized dreams from which it is difficult to escape.
Barbara De Angelis
#30. Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope of bringing about a Millennium, we busily teach to the heathen, we Christians ourselves disregard.
Herman Melville
#31. Failure is usually boring. It is the credible but unrealized threat of failure that is interesting.
Robin D. Laws
#32. Cynicism is idealism turned inside out. It stems from an expectation unrealized and a promise perverted. That is so much of Washington today in a nutshell.
Mark Leibovich
#33. The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
Calvin Coolidge
#34. Quote from "Unexpected Tales from the Ends of the Earth":
"The only one everlasting love is the unrealized one. The love to this thing that you'd never had. Behind it is hidden the love to your own ego and feelings".
Alexandar Tomov
#35. I decided that there was perhaps no ash quite so cold as the one left by an unrealized ambition ...
Thomas H. Cook
#36. What we look for in the school is unrealized potential.
Donna Reed
#37. I make no apologies for you. After all, each one of us is little more than the meager residue of the infinite unrealized possibilities of our lives.
Gregory Frost
#38. The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress.
Renata Adler
#39. We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.
Lance Armstrong
#40. Jacob wore a tetchy air of mild resentment that Paul couldn't begin to understand. He was forty and his father was bankrolling him; what could he possibly feel aggrieved about? He pushed unrealized potential before him like a baby carriage.
Amy Waldman
#41. If there have been mute inglorious Miltons in rural villages, presumably there have been unrealized Washingtons born in unpropitious times.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#42. A sweet gum tree is the chameleon of wood, it's corky exterior hiding it's inner ability to imitate anything from cherry to mahogany. But it's real value, one unrealized by most people, is it's deep red heart, steady and strong.
Katherine Allred
#43. Our hopes may seem unrealized, but we were in all likelihood hoping for the wrong thing.
Michael Cunningham
#44. You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is that of military technology. No potential weapon would remain unrealized for ten thousand years.
Isaac Asimov
#45. Show me a dream unrealized. Don't show me unchangeable paths.
Roshani Chokshi
#46. Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most important part; beneath these faces, these clothes, accents, rudenesses, was power and sorrow, both unadmitted, unrealized, the power of inventors, the sorrow of the disconnected.
James Baldwin
#47. It seemed to her there was a peacefulness about him that came with resignation, with the extinction of that last hope, like a perfect humility undistracted by the possible, the unrealized, the yet to be determined.
Marilynne Robinson
#48. Therefore, mobilize vigor to attain what is unattained, to master what is unmastered, to realize what is unrealized. In this way your taking to the spiritual life will not be barren, but fruitful and ever-growing. (Samyutta Nikaya II.29) How
Anonymous
#49. It's hardly ever the destination we've been anticipating, is it? Our hopes may seem unrealized, but we were in all likelihood hoping for the wrong thing. Where did we - the species, that is - pick up that strange and perverse habit?
Michael Cunningham
#50. There is a moment before we are fully awake when truths known only to our unconscious mind brush over us like a mother's kiss. These truths represent our dreams - our naked hopes that will go unrealized unless fate smiles, or the angels intervene, or a woman reaches for a man.
Rebecca E. Grant
#51. We walk among worlds unrealized until we have learned the secret of love.
Hugh Black
#52. Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.
Aristotle.
#53. Because he thinks he is a thief!" Jethro cried. "He thinks he stole what he is. He's fighting his own shadow and his own heart.
Marek Halter
#54. Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Henry David Thoreau
#55. Comfort ... was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison.
Ashim Shanker
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