Quotes About Wasted Potential

#1. One of the most terrifying things I fear is not my potential, but how much regret I'll die with should I never use it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#2. Greece has great strengths, but much of this potential has been wasted. That's because of a wider political system, but also because of a lack of an institutional framework.

George Papandreou

#3. In God's economy, nothing is slag, nothing is wasted. Every relationship we build is a teacher, every experience we have is a coach. In every scar there is a lesson. In every memory there lives potential to make more.

Toni Sorenson

#4. My brother,' Mortin says as Leidan shuffles away. 'So much potential, wasted.' He takes a swig of beer. I wonder whose potential he really thinks is wasted. I look through his upturned drink at the walls and ceiling. Things look sadder when glimpsed through alcohol.

Ned Vizzini

#5. Don't let go too soon, but don't hang on too long.

Morrie Schwartz.

#6. Intemperance in talk makes dreadful havoc in the heart.

Thomas F. Wilson

#7. there's a lot of intelligence out there being wasted by underestimating students' potential to develop.

Carol S. Dweck

#8. Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted ...

C. G. Jung

#9. You can have all the words in the world,but if not said rightly, those words are simply wasted potential.

Joel T. McGrath

#10. When people wish for harmony, I wish for chaos. I'd rather see imaginative means of self-destruction, than to see laziness and wasted potential.

Lionel Suggs

#11. A life lived at less than its full potential is a life half wasted.

Tony Clark

#12. Gene Roddenbury felt that television was being wasted. That it had the potential for enlightenment and even inspiration.

George Takei

#13. It pains me to say this, Colin, but if you wish to continue to grow intellectually, you need to work harder right now than you ever have before. Otherwise you, you risk wasting your potential."
"Technically," Colin answered, "I think I might have already wasted it.

John Green

#14. On the McGuire course, there's a technique called 'cancellation' where negative experiences are replaced with positive ones.

Gareth Gates

#15. Black and white might be sufficient. But why deprive yourself of color.

Christian Dior

#16. I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

Sebastian Junger

#17. The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been wasted because of taboos.

Helen Reddy

#18. So, all in all, the whore's drawers are back up, and with any luck they'll stay that way.

Ronnie O'Sullivan

#19. Youth is wasted on the young.

George Bernard Shaw

#20. Directing myself definitely made me a better actor. And, you know, I think actors have the best track record when they turn to directing. Writers, too. I knew how to direct actors because I've been there and I know what I like.

Matt Dillon

#21. Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was so deep we didn't even try, or because each of us thought someone else was worrying about our problems.

Ralph Nader

#22. When the time comes for you to leave this earth, if it doesn't become a lesser place with your absence, then you have wasted your life.

Shaun Hick

#23. When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there's less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.

Justin Rosenstein

#24. Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential

Malala Yousafzai

#25. When a flower blooms,
God is smiling at mankind.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#26. The seeing of Truth cannot be dualistic (a 'thing' seen). It cannot be seen by a see-er, or via a see-er. There can only be a seeing which itself is Truth.

Wei Wu Wei

#27. People keep telling me I never lived up to my potential, that I wasted my talent ... I just didn't have as much as people thought. I got more ink for doing less than any pitcher who ever lived.

Bo Belinsky

#28. Our focus is not on current politics, but students seem to be naturally drawn to this topic. This is understandable, when the U.S. is constantly trying to terrorize the nation with threats of war, students obviously take notice.

Mohammad Marandi

#29. Days are like trains, they will just zoom by. You can be zapped seeing them pass or you can jump on to one of them and enjoy the Journey.-RVM

R.v.m.