A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch can't be saved. — Indian Proverbs
Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone. — Jerome K. Jerome
Many people erroneously think they have only one chance to succeed, and if they miss that chance, they are doomed to failure. In fact, most people have several opportunities to succeed. — Bill Walsh
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. — William Feather
So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take. — Jimmy Page
Everybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and walk away from it. — Winston Churchill
Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them. — William Arthur Ward
Short Chances Quotes
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. — Winston Churchill
Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance? — Phyllis Diller
Even if there's a tiny tiny chance, isn't that worth going for it? — Louis Tomlinson
Happiness is not by chance, but by choice. — Jim Rohn
Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. — Mary Tyler Moore
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. — Laurence J. Peter
Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. — Sammy Hagar
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning. — Desmond Tutu
I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money. — Bob Hope
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. — Oprah Winfrey
If the risk is high, the reward is high... Why not roll the dice? — Tyron Woodley
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. — Harrison Ford
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. — Jean Nidetch
I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it. — Ashleigh Brilliant
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. — Helen Keller
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else. — Mae West
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
When Your Not Missed Quotes
Love is a rose
But you better not pick it.
It only grows
When it's on the vine.
Handful of thorns
And you'll know you missed it.
You lose your love
When you say the word MINE. — Neil Young
The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don't limit it. — John Eliot
Whatever you may have to do, watch your mind. Also you must have moments of complete inner peace and quiet, when your mind is absolutely still. If you miss it, you miss the entire thing. If you do not, the silence of the mind will dissolve and absorb all else. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.
I understand Crawford paid you a visit?" "Yes." "And was he attentive?" "Yes, very." "And has your heart changed towards him?" "Yes. Several times. I have - I find that I - I find that-" "Shh. Surely you and I are beyond speaking when words are clearly not enough.... I missed you." "And I you. — Jane Austen
I had to learn how to change my thinking because I can really get caught up in not liking my body. It can turn into obsession and it can be really bad. I think that when that rules your life then you miss the joys of life. — Carmen Electra
When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again. — Sarah Addison Allen
Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll ever be again.
There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less radical, and you will feel better too, I guarantee, once you leave hold of the doctrinaire and allow your chainless mind to do its own thinking. — Christopher Hitchens
The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things. — Larry Dixon
It's amazing how quickly things start to change when you haven't slept. Your memory goes. Physically, you don't feel well. Emotionally, you're all over the place - you know, if you miss one night of sleep. You can only imagine five nights of not sleeping. I was in an alternate state of reality. — Jenny Lewis
You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can omit, but how you are going to do the grammar of the omission, how you make things continue to work when there's something missing. It's your last chance to rewrite. — Tom Stoppard
How Many Chances Quotes
How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in. — Johnny Depp
I wonder how many parents realize that by the so-called education they are giving their children, they are only driving them into the commonplace, and depriving them of any chance of doing anything beautiful or original. — Isadora Duncan
This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowed into a sister channel. How many spectacles I've missed: the curtain rising without me, and falling too. How many friends I never had the chance to meet. — Anna Akhmatova
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Without loving and caring for others, most of us stand little chance of communing with God/the Divine Wisdom, no matter how many years we may spend in silent prayer. — Bo Lozoff
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room. — Ernest Dimnet
The 3 C's in life: Choice, Chance, Change. You must make the choice, take the chance, if you want anything in life to change.
I never smoke grass and drive my car because, for one thing, no matter how many letters I write to the road commissions, they still refuse to start designing highways with second-chance exits. — Arj Barker
If one who looked from a tower for a new star, watching for years the same part of the sky, suddenly saw it (quite by chance while thinking of other things), and knew it for the star for which he had hoped, how many millions of men would never care? — Lord Dunsany
How many things are now at loose ends! Who knows which way the wind will blow tomorrow? — Henry David Thoreau
How many people ever get a chance to do something that they really believe in? — Terry Fox
Going To Miss Quotes
I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something. — Dr. Dre
When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. — Sam Ewing
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. — Eddie Cantor
Take the risk or lose the chance.
Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week. — William Devane
There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that. — Dave Navarro
What's your routine after attending a networking event or meal? If your answer is, 'I go home,' you're probably going to miss out on opportunities. — Lewis Howes
Life always offers you a second chance. It's called tomorrow.
I'm not a party animal; I took my job as Miss USA very seriously... Sometimes, of course, I want to let it all go. Even though I'm a beauty queen, you're also an unofficial ambassador, and there's a lot of pressure. — Rima Fakih
When you watch the subtitled version you are probably missing just as many things. There is a layer and a nuance you're not going to get. Film crosses so many borders these days. Of course it is going to be distorted. — Hayao Miyazaki
That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present. — Lauren Miller
You benefit from deep inner belief of having wins behind you, so you get to the table, and you know you’re not going to miss. — Stephen Hendry
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself. — Marcel Proust
Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love. — Therese of Lisieux
Life always offers you a second chance. Its called tomorrow.
Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones. — I. M. Pei
Making a stall after the cow is lost. — Thai Proverbs
When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it. — Boris Pasternak
If someone offers you and amazing opportunity and you're not sure you can do it, say yes - then learn how to do it later.
The fox that waits until the chicken falls from the perch dies from hunger — Greek Proverbs
Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself. — Itzhak Perlman
When we miss it, it really does pass us by. Tomorrow presents another opportunity for awareness, but it’s never an opportunity for the same awareness. — Rick Rubin
I don't really have any regrets because if I choose not to do something there is usually a very good reason. Once I've made the decision I don't view it as a missed opportunity, just a different path. — Andrew Lincoln
Lost Opportunity Quotes
One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again. — Jose Rizal
Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life. — Dogen
Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy. — David Suzuki
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive. — Haruki Murakami
The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this government can never be, as it never has been, a true republic. — Thaddeus Stevens
I’ll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. — Matt Groening
If you don't give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure.
Watching people reach a higher level of consciousness. A fixation. For a few moments in their lives, they transcend and become lost in the fantasy of it all. As a DJ, I'm trying to create the opportunity for this to happen. — Jeff Mills
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. — Richard M. Nixon
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. — Jane Austen
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy. — Spike Milligan
If you are still breathing, you have a second chance. — Oprah Winfrey
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already. — Soren Kierkegaard
Improvisation is too good to leave to chance. — Paul Simon
Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship. — Laura Schlessinger
Give young people a chance, our generation may just surprise you. — Marc Kielburger
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. — Anatole France
Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance. — Jack Dempsey
They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom! — Mel Gibson
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance. — Isaac Newton
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. — Aristotle
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. — Robert H. Schuller
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. — Mary Tyler Moore
When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity...you do not slam it shut behind you...you reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed. — Michelle Obama
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