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
Procrastination is opportunity's assassin. — Victor Kiam
You don’t lose real friends, real opportunities, or real relationships when you start standing up for yourself and setting clear boundaries. You lose abusers, manipulators, narcissists, control freaks, attention seekers, and mental-health destroying leeches. — Steven Bartlett
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
A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
Do not rush into a business just because you have the capital. You'd lose your shirt if you jump into it recklessly. Do your homework first. Study the market and look for that golden opportunity. Whatever business you choose to go into, it must be something that you can pursue with passion. — Andrew Tan
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment You own it, you better never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo — Eminem
Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity - if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs. — Mario Andretti
Football - it's not fun when you lose. That's a heartbreaking thing. But then there's a new week, and a new opportunity and I definitely get happier and happier as that new opportunity approaches. So 'win the next game,' that's my mindset. — Jim Harbaugh
The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has and the less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one thing he can fall back upon another. — Bertrand Russell
Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to lose. — Rajendra K. Pachauri
Getting Opportunity Quotes
Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door. — Douglas MacArthur
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. — Wayne Dyer
A positive attitude opens the door to positive opportunities, which leads to a positive life.
Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger. — Kgalema Motlanthe
We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity. — Dorothy Height
When you focus on problems, you get more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you have more opportunities. — Zig Ziglar
I lost myself trying to please everyone else. Now I'm losing everyone while I'm finding myself.
We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is. — David Steindl-Rast
We need to focus on green jobs: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass.There's so many opportunities. But other countries like China are getting ahead of the curve. — Alexi Giannoulias
Positive Thinkers get positive results because they appreciate the inestimable value of a day, this day, not the next day, but this day, and every day. Today offers at least sixteen waking hours that may be crammed FULL of opportunity, joy, excitement, and achievement. — Norman Vincent Peale
In playing ball, and in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two things matter: being prepared to seize the moment and having the courage to take your best swing. — Hank Aaron
Seeing Opportunity Quotes
The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity. — Alexander Fleming
Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat — Steve Jobs
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
When you follow God's will for your life, you can see how yesterday's events prepared you for today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunities. — David Jeremiah
If you believe it will work out , you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't you will see obstacles. — Wayne Dyer
You want to hire # entrepreneurs , people who are natural problem solvers -- the ones who see opportunity when most see impossibility. — Gurbaksh Chahal
If your point of view is positive, you will see the challenges in the future as opportunities. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Some days I make 20 bets. Some days, I make none...so I wait, plan, marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all. — Arnold Rothstein
Though we can't always see it at the time, if we look upon events with some perspective, we see things always happen for our best interests. We are always being guided in a way better than we know ourselves. — Swami Satchidananda
Anyone can see the adversity in a difficult situation, but it takes a stronger person to see the opportunity. — Drew Brees
Missed Opportunities Quotes
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
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
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
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
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
Missed Chances Quotes
We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way. — Gloria Gaither
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
I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right. — Paula Radcliffe
Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again. — Aidan Chambers
Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake. A man can muff a serve in tennis, miss a strike in baseball, or throw an incomplete pass in football and still have another chance to square himself. In golf, every swing counts against you. — Lloyd Mangrum
The chances are you've never seen the other side of me. You've seen the event side of me when I'm on stage. But there is another side of me. If you evoke that side, you won't like it. It's a nasty side. You don't want to see that side. You're not missing anything by not seeing it. — Unknown Author
Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try. — Jack Canfield
The bodybuilding world has lost one of its greatest legends. I had a chance to speak with Steve Michalik a year ago at The Upper State Bodybuilding competition. We laughed and shared our personal opinions about bodybuilding [today's scene and how it was in the past]. Steve, we'll miss you. R.I.P. — Lee Haney
Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. Don't worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try. — Sherman Glenn Finesilver
Another Opportunity Quotes
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this. — Henry David Thoreau
Another day, another opportunity to prove everyone who doubts you wrong. — Michael Jordan
Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It's one thing to hate failure, it's another to fear it. — Bill Parcells
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act. — Saint Augustine
Members of trusting teams accept questions and input about their areas or responsibility, appreciate and tap into one another's skills and experiences, and look forward to meetings and other opportunities to work as a group. — Patrick Lencioni
One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship. — Milton Friedman
And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again. — Richard Russo
Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance. — Bryan Adams
There’s something about beating another human into the ground who also has the ability to fight for his life and the opportunity to take yours. it makes you feel particularly great when you win. — Jake Paul
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
The secret of our lost mode of prayer is to shift our perspective of life by feeling that the miracle has already happened and our prayers have been answered. Now we have the opportunity to bring this wisdom into our lives as prayers of gratitude for what already exists, rather than asking for our prayers to be answered. — Gregg Braden
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
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
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
Our priorities are most visible in how we use our time. Someone has said, “Three things never come back—the spent arrow, the spoken word, and the lost opportunity.” We cannot recycle or save the time allotted to us each day. With time, we have only one opportunity for choice, and then it is gone forever. — Dallin H. Oaks
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
I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss. — Andy Rooney
Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others. — Unknown
While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed. — John Engler
Opportunity is lost by deliberation. — Publilius Syrus
Bargains are the holy grail of the true stockpicker. The fact that 10 to 30 percent of our net worth is lost in a market sell-off is of little consequence. We see the latest correction not as a disaster but as an opportunity to acquire more shares at low prices. This is how great fortunes are made over time. — Peter Lynch
My greatest talent is calmness and being positive. I concentrate on what you can do even in the worst of times. You don't judge by last week's errors or lost opportunity. — Joe Torre
Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. — Betty Friedan
I might have speculated on my chances of going to Heaven; but candidly I did not care. I could not have wept if I had tried. I had no wish to review the evils of my past. But the past did seem to have been a bit wasted. The road to Hell may be paved with good intentions: the road to Heaven is paved with lost opportunities. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard
The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls — Dean Koontz
They didn't have an incubator. Why didn't they have an incubator? Because they didn't have reliable electricity. And so the babies just tragically die, and the opportunity for life is just lost. And this is because they lack energy. — Alex Epstein
There are no lost opportunities in Divine Mind, as one door shuts another door is opened. — Florence Scovel Shinn
Lost luggage is just an opportunity to start afresh. — Chris Evans
How often have I rattled on with God and said nothing at all? Relying on clichés, throwaway phrases, and high language I'd never use in everyday conversation, I took prayer for granted and lost sight of the wondrous opportunity to draw close to God. — Margaret Feinberg
We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. — William Shakespeare
Errors of omission, lost opportunities, are generally more critical than errors of commission. Organizations fail or decline more frequently because of what they did not do than because of what they did. — Russell L. Ackoff
Step by step we see democracy being uprooted like an unwanted weed and the preparation for fascism, for a police state in America. The Congress is largely complicit. The media is supportive. The public is apathetic. By the time apathy is reversed, there may be little opportunity to restore what was lost without massive effort and pain. — Stan Moore
Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people. — Ban Ki-moon
We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. — Charles Stanley
My mantra: Brainless exercise is a lost opportunity for improvement. — Michael Merzenich
Through indecision opportunity is often lost. — Publilius Syrus
Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. — Anonymous
hen we mourn those who die young — those who have been robbed of time — we weep for lost joys. We weep for opportunities and pleasures we ourselves have never known. We feel sure that somehow that young body would have known the yearning delight for which we searched in vain all our lives. — Josephine Hart
A good opportunity is seldom presented, and is easily lost. — Publilius Syrus
Tears never yet saved a soul. Hell is full of weepers weeping over lost opportunities, perhaps over the rejection of an offered Saviour. Your Bible does not say, "Weep, and be saved." It says, "Believe, and be saved." Faith is better than feeling. — Theodore L. Cuyler
Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits — Winston Churchill
At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must find the courage to dream. To reclaim romance. The romance of believing in justice, in freedom, and in dignity. For everybody. — Arundhati Roy
A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time. — Francis Bacon
I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity. — Olivier Martinez
I believe the sense of lost opportunity is rooted in a faulty understanding of God's grace. Likewise, when grace is grasped and embraced, the Land of Opportunity becomes yours again. — David Jeremiah
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