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
Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones. — I. M. Pei
Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them. — William Arthur Ward
Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. — Abba Eban
One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles. — Erwin Rommel
Often, the most extraordinary opportunities are hidden among the seemingly insignificant events of life. If we do not pay attention to these events, we can easily miss the opportunities. — Jim Rohn
Procrastination is opportunity's assassin. — Victor Kiam
A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch can't be saved. — Indian Proverbs
Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day. — Rick Warren
I missed a lot of good times, doing things that I shouldn't have been doing. There are certain mistakes I'd like to change, but I'm not going to trip on it to hard. — Jay Adams
Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken. — Robert Breault
Opportunities were seized, regrets were had, and success was ultimately achieved. — Cliff Lerner
In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. — Neil Strauss
Short Missed Opportunities Quotes
An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity. — Confucius
Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The opportunity of a lifetime is seldom so labeled. — American Proverbs
And you let go of your chance. — Iza Calzado
Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin. — Victor Kiam
Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. — Napoleon Hill
If you can't be present when the time comes, then you may miss the opportunity. — Lewis Howes
Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity. — Leon Spinks
Some setbacks make you stronger. Never waste an opportunity. — Changpeng Zhao
Missed Opportunities Image Quotes
Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself. — Itzhak Perlman
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Missed Opportunities In Love Quotes
If you look at Obama - I think that what you saw during those eight years, and in those last few weeks, was that he really loves people and he is going to miss them. And that he deeply appreciate the opportunity he was given. — Alyssa Mastromonaco
The time we waste never comes again. The opportunities we miss never come again. The loves we lose never come again. Indeed, in this world of constant change we are fortunate that these things never come again. — Frederick Lenz
It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Opportunity is missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand." "If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything. — Judy Blume
Missed Opportunities In Life Quotes
Most of us miss our best opportunities in life because they come to us disguised as work. — Nido R Qubein
You don't know why God has put that person in your path. It's not a coincidence. He's strategically lined up every person, every detail and every step of your life. Now do your part--don't miss an opportunity to do good for others. — Joel Osteen
Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced — because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival. — Roger Ebert
How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.
Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy. — Douglas Adams
Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in — Orison Swett Marden
Throughout my life I had wandered alone, trying to find pieces of me in any place I could and when it came down to it, I was nothing but a shell of missed opportunities. — Matthew Carter
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are only uncovered later, by historians who seek to bring order to a lifetime of tangled moments. — Kate Morton
Each minute we spend worrying about the future and regretting the past is a minute we miss in our appointment with life - a missed opportunity to engage life and to see that each moment gives us the chance to change for the better, to experience peace and joy. — Nhat Hanh
Many girls prepare their whole lives for this one moment. For me, I see Miss USA as an opportunity to reach new and greater heights in the future. — Katherine Webb
Quitting the show was a complete anomaly in my life and my career. I've never missed out on anything. I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway... It's the holy grail for people like me. — Jeremy Piven
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
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
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'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.
The fox that waits until the chicken falls from the perch dies from hunger — Greek Proverbs
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
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
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
Making a stall after the cow is lost. — Thai Proverbs
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
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.
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
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
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
I just told my agent to forget all other projects for me. I was waiting for Audrey Hepburn. She asked for me, and I was ready. This could be the last and only opportunity I’d have to work with the great and lovely Audrey Hepburn and I was not missing it. Period. — Fred Astaire
You can't sleep. Broke people sleep. You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful. — Eric Thomas
I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren. — Mitt Romney
Comfort can lead to a life of mediocrity and missed opportunities. — Michael Easter
In 2008 I didn't take it all in enough. I was so wrapped up in just the competition that I missed what was going on around me. If I am given that opportunity again to go to the Olympics and be an athlete I want to take it all in because I feel like this is my last shot and I want to feel the team spirit. I want to really live and breathe the USA. — Shawn Johnson
Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement. — George Burton Adams
I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about how hard it is to survive as a painter... It's been an extra driving force to be able to prove the sceptics wrong. — Stuart Pearson Wright
But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity. — Oriana Fallaci
Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in question. Africa's absence from the club of those who have the right to veto is unjust and should be ended. — Thomas Sankara
The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity. — Annie Besant
Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity. — Michael Dell
The more successful one is at market timing, the greater is the temptation to rely on it and thus miss much greater opportunities of buying right and holding on. — Thomas Phelps
Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti
My future plans are hazy, and I've yet to experience how much cartooning is in my blood and therefore how much I'll miss it. But I have some other interests, especially in music, and I will probably take the opportunity to delve into those things more deeply. — Gary Larson
To the citizens of Israel, I say: We have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcome them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps, but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for, for so many years: security, tranquillity and peace. — Ariel Sharon
There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention the the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up. — Indra Nooyi
Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. — Max Eastman
I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss. — Andy Rooney
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
You can eliminate depression without making someone happy. You can cure anxiety without teaching someone optimism. You can return someone to work without improving their job performance. If all you strive for is diminishing the bad, you'll only attain the average and you'll miss out entirely on the opportunity to exceed the average. — Shawn Achor
Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time. — William Wordsworth
How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it. — Paulo Coelho
[God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory. — Charles R. Swindoll
If I am inconsiderate about the comfort of others, or their feelings, or even of their little weaknesses; if I am careless about their little hurts and miss opportunities to smooth their way; if I make the sweet running of household wheels more difficult to accomplish, then I know nothing of Calvary love. — Amy Carmichael
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