Opportunity Is Missed By Most Quotes

#1. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison

Greg Crabtree

#2. Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.

James E. Faust

#3. Opportunity is a bird that never perches.

Claude Maxwell MacDonald

#4. 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

#5. They would congratulate themselves every morning on keeping their integrity, and blame themselves each night for that missed opportunity.

Paulo Coelho

#6. 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

#7. For a long time, I missed being in the courtroom every day. I missed trial work. It was so much a part of my life. It was what I did and who I was. But over the years I did find the opportunity to realize my childhood dream of writing crime fiction.

Marcia Clark

#8. There's no point whining about missed opportunities.

Martin Schulz

#9. Overall his period in office can only be characterised as a decade of missed opportunities in which the hopes of the British people for a new kind of politics were shattered [on Tony Blair]

Menzies Campbell

#10. 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

#11. It's yad that propels us, like a motor, onward. Yad is like envy, but it's not simply that. It's like spite, rage, anger, but more elegant, more complicated. It's like pity for someone, regret for something you did or did not do, for a chance you missed, for an opportunity you squandered.

Miroslav Penkov

#12. Ruby: You can put whatever name you like on it but at the end of the day a missed opportunity is a missed opportunity. But don't worry; I think there's a lesson to be learned in all this.

Cecelia Ahern

#13. Every day that goes by and we don't win a ballgame, that's a missed opportunity for us to battle back.

Brett Gardner

#14. You just missed a perfectly good opportunity to toast an awful Coldplay T-shirt. If I ever spontaneously combust, I hope I'm holding a whole stack of their CDs. Harper

Joe Hill

#15. 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

#16. The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.

Bernard-Henri Levy

#17. Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.

Claire Keegan

#18. You also need to show a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to impropriety. That's one of the things, again, that Republicans left on the table as a missed opportunity.

Andrea Tantaros

#19. Every opportunity missed is an opportunity for regret

Karl Kloppenborg

#20. Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.

Alain De Botton

#21. Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#22. And also don't forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.

Clifford Irving

#23. I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.

Alanis Morissette

#24. It may be tempting to look back and wring our hands over missed opportunities for change in the preceding decades. But, I'm not interested at looking in the rearview mirror except to learn.

Jennifer Granholm

#25. Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.

Brian Chesky

#26. Whoever has not experienced the pleasure of taking a young lady to her first game of ball should seize the first opportunity to do so. Her remarks about plays, her opinions of different players and the umpire, and the questions she will ask concerning the game, are all too funny to be missed.

John Montgomery Ward

#27. A missed opportunity repentance only leaves behind

Eve Berlin

#28. She was haunted by the possibility that she had missed her chance for happiness. But she had not missed her chance, she told herself, for her chance would not let her get away so easily. Each morning she was fortified by hope: the future loomed.

Amanda Coplin

#29. I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

James M. Barrie

#30. There was no reason to get upset over one missed opportunity when so many more lay ahead.

Andrew Beyer

#31. We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

Joichi Ito

#32. Each minute wasted with a shark is a missed opportunity to enjoy being with a Dolphin

Miguel Reynolds Brandao