Quotes About Chances Missed

#1. Coffee was served: bitter and black, like chances missed.

Hilary Mantel

#2. In life we don't always get what we want; hopes and dreams get washed away so easily, hearts are broken, chances are missed, and we always seem to end up right back where we started.

Rebecah McManus

#3. But stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances. 18

Stephen King

#4. 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

#5. Any fighter knows that regret that doesn't inform your future is wasted emotion. If you lose and dwell on the missed opportunity rather than the chances to come, you're finished.

Craig Lancaster

#6. Goodbye Brad, missed you at the Tour and Vuelta. NOT! I so nailed you with my book. I killed your last chances to ever ride a grand tour. Watching you beg in the press was fun, it really was.

Chris Froome

#7. I never cut my neighbor's throat;
My neighbor's gold I never stole;
I never spoiled his house and land;
But God have mercy on my soul!
For I am haunted night and day
By all the deeds I have not done;
O unattempted loveliness!
O costly valor never won!

Marguerite Wilkinson

#8. Going too fast for myself I missed
more than I think I can remember
almost everything it seems sometimes
and yet there are chances that come back
that I did not notice when they stood
where I could have reached out and touched them

W.S. Merwin

#9. I think I could look back through the past few years at missed opportunities and stuff, but one thing I have learned is not to dwell on missed chances or times where you have failed.

Michael Chang

#10. Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done

Chad Michael Murray

#11. When we lose someone, it is not the loss that makes us sad. It is the thought of all our missed chances.

Ira N. Barin

#12. The past, for everyone, is full of missed chances, surviving to understand them, if not set them straight, is one of the things that makes the next breath worth taking.

Le Ly Hayslip

#13. I'm not going to single individuals out but Yakubu has missed loads of great chances

Alan Brazil

#14. The other is missed chances.

Stephen King

#15. Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

T. S. Eliot

#16. Life is like an 6-slice apple pie at a 12-guest dinner banquet. If you just sit back and wait for it to come to you, chances are, you're going to miss dessert.

Donald L. Hicks

#17. That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.

Kristin Hannah

#18. The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#19. There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#20. Unable to help himself, he offered her a smile and stared into those eyes as he tapped his mouth. "I think you missed.

J.M. Stewart

#21. Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone.

Jenny Han

#22. Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

C. G. Jung

#23. Then it comes to him - how you can't return to a place you've never been to, can't recapture what you never had. The chances you miss stay missed forever.

Paul Russell

#24. Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life

Natalie Babbitt

#25. If only there were a game whose winning required a gift for the identification of missed opportunities and of things lost and irrecoverable, a knack for the belated recognition of truths, for the exploitation of chances in imagination after it's too late!

Michael Chabon

#26. If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

Angelina Jolie

#27. However many chances you think you have missed, however many mistakes you feel you have made, ... you have not traveled beyond the reach of divine love.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#28. Stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

Stephen King

#29. I can't fault my players. We created a lot of chances but we missed out on a victory because of the woodwork and goalkeeper Bonano, who did very well.

Frank Rijkaard

#30. It occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him
his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like in the Wilds, before he came to Portland, and I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.

Lauren Oliver

#31. The day before you died was the longest, slowest day ever. It gave you more time than you could possibly want to contemplate all the things you'd got wrong, the chances you'd missed, the errors you'd made. It was long enough to convince the most hopeful person that there was no point in anything.

Juliet Marillier

#32. Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

Eric Roth

#33. I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything ...

Ann Beattie

#34. A missed opportunity repentance only leaves behind

Eve Berlin