Quotes About A Missed Opportunity

#1. A missed opportunity repentance only leaves behind

Eve Berlin

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

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#3. Self-esteem doesn't come simply from dressing well, but they are both something we can control. It's a missed opportunity when women say they don't have the money, figure, etc., because style is such a way to help cultivate the way women feel about themselves.

Stacy London

#4. Sweeping generalizations are easy, but we are more alike than we are different. Our focus and interests may vary, or not, but to dismiss something as less relevant is a missed opportunity.

Deborah Stanish

#5. 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.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#6. What is left unsaid gets in the way of the relationship. What is left unasked-for is a missed opportunity.

Thomas Leonard

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

Bernard-Henri Levy

#8. 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

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

Brett Gardner

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#13. I've seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities.

Garry Kasparov

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

Claire Keegan

#15. 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

#16. You don't know what it's like to lose a child, but I do. When they're gone, every cold word you uttered is a scar on your soul, every missed opportunity with them a pain that will never heal.

Jeaniene Frost

#17. How could I have missed the opportunity to pop pills with my sister who was purer than a Quaker?

Chelsea Handler

#18. 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

#19. A chance not taken is an opportunity missed.

Ken Petti

#20. In war, where imperfect intelligence, the threat of a catastrophe, and the number of accidents are incomparably greater than any other human endeavor, the amount of missed opportunities, so to speak, is therefore bound to be greater.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#21. I found it wild and rather unsettling, like a tame horse realizing there was once an opportunity to be unbridled that was somehow missed. Such thoughts haunt me now and then.

Barbara Lieberman

#22. You watched the sunset today? You are rich! You missed it? You are poor! Try to meet the great artists in every opportunity possible to increase your wealth! And Sun is a very great artist!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. I have always loved clothes, and the opportunity to design my own line could not be missed. It's a dream job.

Jasmine Guinness

#24. When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

Naveen Jain

#25. So I'm here, and not being one for missed opportunities, I made a list of the casting directors in New York and mark off the ones I've already met over the years. The few remaining I asked my agent and manager, "See if you can set up some meetings while I'm here."

William Mapother

#26. Gary Berntsen, head of the CIA in Afghanistan there, he was a field commander. And he has a book out called "Jawbreaker." And he says we missed an opportunity at Tora Bora to get him. We put resources elsewhere. That's been a critique of the administration. Did we miss opportunities?

Alan Colmes

#27. 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

#28. I've had recurring nightmares that I was loved for who I am ... and missed the opportunity to be a better man.

Muse

#29. Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opportunity to be one.

George Will

#30. They missed a great opportunity to shut up.

Jacques Chirac

#31. 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

#32. Publishing companies and a great many authors have missed the opportunity to capitalize on the very real relationships they create with their readers.

Vantile Whitfield

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. Opportunity is a bird that never perches.

Claude Maxwell MacDonald

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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