Top 100 Miss Opportunity Quotes
#1. We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work
Thomas A. Edison
#2. Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.
Henry Ford
#3. Can you call yourself a coward simply because the courage of others seems to you out of proportion to the triviality of the occasion? Thus wisdom creates cowards. And thus you miss Opportunity while spending your life on the lookout for it.
Umberto Eco
#4. Do not be afraid to be kind; be afraid to miss the opportunity to be kind.
Debasish Mridha
#5. A new year reminds us that regardless of how often we fail or miss the mark, God freely offers opportunity to begin anew.
James Robison
#6. Use your heads as you live and work among outsiders. Don't miss a trick. Make the most of every opportunity. Be gracious in your speech. The goal is to bring out the best in others in a conversation, not put them down, not cut them out
Paul The Apostle
#7. 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
#8. The only time you truly make a mistake is when you commit a "mis-take," that is, you "miss-taking" the opportunity to learn a valuable lesson from your seemingly malfunctional experience.
Dean Frazer
#9. Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt.
Paulo Coelho
#10. 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
#11. It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I have found some space, some air that isn't stale, that hasn't been breathed by my family a thousand times already.
Nick Hornby
#12. What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
Barry Manilow
#13. I'll miss some of the opportunities that playing Harry [Potter] brought me.
Daniel Radcliffe
#14. Use the first moments in study. You may miss many an opportunity for quick victory this way, but the moments of study are insurance of success. Take your time and be sure.
Frank Herbert
#15. 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 De Lisieux
#16. For the pageants, it was my mother who got me involved in Miss America. It really gave me the opportunity to sing all around New Hampshire. And it was great when I was young, but looking back, it was also unbelievably stressful.
Jane Badler
#17. For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.
Tyler Hamilton
#18. 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
#19. Life is short. Don't miss opportunities to spend time with the people that you love.
Joel Osteen
#20. Opportunity always knocks the door with hurdles. It's up to you either jump the hurdle to grab or owing to hurdle miss the opportunity .
Akansh Malik
#21. If you're too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling.
Vince Gilligan
#22. Never miss an opportunity to be truly and deeply humiliated! The shame will carve you down to an individual of exquisite layering, and in the process, etch within you the arcs of exceptional narrative.
Ashim Shanker
#23. Too often we fail to pause for clarification, thinking that we understand something before we do. In doing so, we miss the opportunity to grasp the full significance of an idea, an assertion, or an event. Asking "Wait, what?" is a good way to capture, rather than miss, those opportunities.
James E. Ryan
#24. Never over book yourself fearing to miss out on opportunities.Be honest with yourself and how you use your time.
Kishore Bansal
#26. 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
#27. Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out.
Steve Martin
#28. One of the greatest sermons ever pronounced on missionary work is this simple thought attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi: 'Preach the gospel at all times and if necessary, use words.' Opportunities to do so are all around us. Do not miss them by waiting too long on the road to Damascus.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#29. 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
#30. Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.
Dogen
#31. We tell ourselves that the more time we have at our disposal, the more opportunity we will have of finding greater happiness. But again we are looking to the future, to the times we will create. Again we miss the enjoyment of the present moment.
Russell Peters
#32. We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity.
Shunroku Hata
#34. Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time
you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.
Jon Bon Jovi
#35. 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
#36. If we linger in indecision, as does Buridan's beast, we will not perish. We will simply miss an opportunity to act decisively in the absence of certainty, and show that our fear of error is greater than our love of truth.
Terryl Givens
#37. a paradox; the best opportunities we want are the best opportunities we miss; the best opportunities we wanted, are the best opportunities we missed and the best opportunities we seek for stay far away from us. In the end, we only settle for any opportunity. Life!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#38. Never miss an opportunity to keep your damn mouth shut.
Duff McKagan
#39. 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
#40. They never miss an opportunity to lord over the others. Either they're very vain or very aware. To look powerful is to be powerful.
Victoria Aveyard
#41. 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
#42. Those who look for reasons to hate miss opportunities to love.
Elisabeth Of Wied
#43. When you judge someone on their appearance or first words, you miss the opportunity to understand another human being.
Leon Brown
#44. I miss going to school and having friends; that's normal for anyone my age. I had a very boring childhood because I never had the opportunity to associate with anybody my own age due to my
career. I miss being around kids my own age.
Selena
#45. 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
#46. The value of being silent: I never miss an opportunity to say nothing.
Garrison Wynn
#47. Fat Kid Proverb #52: Never miss an opportunity to dissect a compliment.
K.L. Going
#48. The secret to my own happiness, my own good future, is within my own hands. I must not miss that opportunity!
Dalai Lama XIV
#49. 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
#50. Never miss the opportunity to keep your mouth closed.
A.G. Hayes
#51. I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside.
Gabriela Isler
#52. If doing a good act in public will excite others to do more good, then 'Let your light shine to all.' Miss no opportunity to do good.
John Wesley
#53. Those of you who are convinced that you missed your calling, open all doors keep the entrance way clear. This way you will not miss that next call.
Victoria Addino
#54. Who wants to miss their opportunity of playing in a Major ... A golfer's career is all about it. The lesson I have learnt is that I will tee up for the Majors only when I am 100 percent fit.
Jeev Milkha Singh
#55. I wouldn't miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, I'd do it all over again, every single minute.
Bruce Babbitt
#56. Too often, we miss out on opportunities in this life because we were too busy waiting for them to fall into our lap that we missed them tapping on our shoulder.
Daniel Willey
#57. One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
Marcel Proust
#58. 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
#59. One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history.
Barbara Mikulski
#60. 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
#61. Knowing that salvation is God's work alone should also free us from fear. We no longer have to fear that everything is riding on what we say - that we might miss that "one" opportunity to speak into our children's lives and have their eternal salvation forfeited.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#62. Kid, don't miss an opportunity to laugh, because laughter is what makes the boot heels of life palatable.
Bryan R. Dennis
#63. Don't be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you.
Robert Kiyosaki
#64. I don't miss another opportunity to try to do my best to finish the things I have left undone. I could say: It's my unresolved karma that wakes me up in the morning.
Sharon Gannon
#65. In theory, the Internet provides an opportunity to widen knowledge-to see beyond screens and neighborhoods into a broader universe-and yet the first thing many people want to do is wall themselves off and broadcast how narrow-minded they are. It seems to absolutely miss the point of the experience.
Jason Gay
#66. 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
#67. We are innately creative beings capable of writing a love story worth living, and we cannot afford to miss out on the opportunity to experience nourishing relationships.
David Simon
#68. Singing is good for the spirits. You should never miss an opportunity to sing.
Rick Riordan
#69. But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good to miss. Simply put there is no more creative an act than creating a new nation.
Sean Connery
#70. Never forget, Caelius, that a great man makes his luck. Luck is there for everyone to seize. Most of us miss our chances; we're blind to our luck. He never misses a chance because he's never blind to the opportunity of the moment.
Colleen McCullough
#71. Do not you feel a great inclination, Miss Bennet, to seize such an opportunity of dancing a reel?
Jane Austen
#72. If you don't act now while it's fresh in your mind, it will probably join the list of things you were always going to do but never quite got around to. Chances are you'll also miss some opportunities.
Paul Clitheroe
#73. None of them seemed to mind sliding around in the faeces and choking in the smoke. They were determined not to miss the opportunity of watching a foreigner make a fool of himself.
Tahir Shah
#74. A man should never miss an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.
David Eddings
#75. As long as you enjoy investing, you'll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game. That's why I try to make the show so entertaining, because if you aren't interested, you'll either miss the opportunity to make money in the market or not pay enough attention and end up losing your shirt.
Jim Cramer
#76. Give every opportunity five minutes. If that's all it's good for, so be it. But I'm not going to miss out on something amazing because I was too scared to take a chance.
G.J. Walker-Smith
#77. 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
#79. That's it, Skyco. That is the way to be a hunter. Never be in a hurry, never rush things. Wait until the prey is within your grasp, then strike swiftly and strike hard. Don't miss or it may be a long time before another opportunity appears.
Jennifer Frick-Ruppert
#80. African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.
Alveda King
#81. When one person attempts to "fix it" for the other person, the connection of acceptance is snapped and the sender and receiver miss an opportunity for understanding.
David W. Earle
#82. He who is blind cannot see opportunities.
He who is deaf cannot hear opportunities.
He who is lame cannot seize opportunities.
He who is ignorant cannot know opportunities.
He who is enlightened cannot miss opportunities.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#83. Am I the right guy? I don't know, but I'm the guy being asked, and the last thing I want to do is miss an opportunity or make God mad, so I just keep saying yes.
Bob Goff
#84. Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#85. Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Abba Eban
#87. A wasted opportunity wasn't just a missed chance, but was a wound to your future. Miss too many opportunities, thus sustaining too many wounds, and you wouldn't have a future at all.
Dean Koontz
#88. I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me.
Michael J. Fox
#89. I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity.
Ehud Olmert
#90. 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
#91. If we continue to treat content as an extra to information architecture, to content management or to anything else, we miss a bright opportunity to influence users. Content is not a nice-to-have extra. Content is a star of the user experience show. Let's make content shine.
Colleen Jones
#92. I do not want to miss the historic opportunity to embedd the smallest memories of seeing you grow into the colossal fabric of my life.
Harshada Pathare
#93. If we don't start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will trash the habitable parts of the earth.
William H. Calvin
#95. When someone walks in and you say "a six-foot-tall man," you miss the opportunity to describe what a six-foot-tall man would look like to your narrator, because how the narrator describes a six-foot-tall man says more about the narrator than about the man.
Chuck Palahniuk
#96. The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.
Robert Orben
#97. You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that's part of it: knowing that you're not shut out forever, and that there's a goal you still can reach.
Johnny Cash
#98. Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but they are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#99. Here's a scary thought: What if God called you to give beyond your comfort level? Would you be afraid? Would you try to explain it away or dismiss it as impractical? And in the process, would you miss out on a harvest opportunity for which God had explicitly prospered you in the first place?
Andy Stanley
#100. Never miss an opportunity to be fabulous.
Tina Seelig
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