Quotes About Failed Opportunity

#1. So if I decide to leap for The Fountain when I finish this memo, I want to make one thing perfectly clear - I would genuinely love to make that leap, and if I don't I will always consider it a mistake and a failed opportunity, one of the very few serious mistakes of my First Life that is now ending.

Hunter S. Thompson

#2. From the takeover of Detroit and the failed stimulus packages to the enactment of Obamacare, the president and congressional Democrats chose to use Americas economic crisis as an excuse to expand government rather than as an opportunity to responsibly shrink it.

Jeb Hensarling

#3. Make me know Your ways, O LORD; Teach me Your paths. 5Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; For You I wait all the day.

Anonymous

#4. America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity ... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal.

George Kaiser

#5. The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#6. We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol.

John Ortberg

#7. Elizabeth and Darcy laughed at the sight, and for a moment,
resolved to keep walking -- as the zombies had failed to take notice of them. But, sharing a glance and a smile, the pair realised they had stumbled onto their first opportunity to fight side by side. And so they did.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#8. And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.

Fernando Pessoa

#9. Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back to the company.

Bill Gates

#10. Given AC as a rival to naturalism, there is an additional burden of proof for a naturalist ontology that quantifies over sui generis emergent properties such as those constitutive of consciousness. After

William Lane Craig

#11. My sensibilities are like, 'I want it to be weirder.'

Kristen Schaal

#12. I dunno, Ralph. We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grown-ups would do.

William Golding

#13. We must now view our problems as opportunities - historic opportunities to change the failed systems of the past and do what's right for our future.

Bob Riley

#14. Iran ... has failed to take the opportunity to demonstrate that its nuclear program is peaceful ... time is not unlimited.

Barack Obama

#15. In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#16. Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#17. I should not have minded that, if they would only have left me alone. But they wouldn't leave me alone. They seemed to think the opportunity lost, if they failed to point the conversation at me, every now and then, and stick the point into me.

Charles Dickens

#18. Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#19. My parents have sailed around the world; they know what can happen and that it's not always fun, but because I want to do it so much, they agreed and supported me.

Laura Dekker

#20. It's not all been rosy; I've had difficult situations where I've failed. But when you fail you learn a lot about yourself and come back stronger. The message is: life need not have limits. Having an opportunity in life is important but what defines you is what you do with that opportunity.

Richard Whitehead

#21. I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.

Alison Jackson

#22. Students should not feel as if they had missed the boat if they failed examinations and should be presented with more opportunities to further their studies.

Joseph Muscat

#23. We know that productivity suffers when uncertainty is high. But we've failed to realize the equally destructive effects of too little anxiety ... By protecting people from risk, we destroy their self-esteem. We rob them of the opportunity to become strong, competent people.

Judith M Bardwick

#24. Learn from this mistake, for a mistake it was. You failed. The next time you have an opportunity for happiness, you must take it.

James Maxwell

#25. I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.

John Engler

#26. Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as the clouds, unstable as the winds? Words failed her - the opportunity, the courage.

Gustave Flaubert

#27. Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us we cannot eat fatty foods, workplace roles that stifle opportunity, and absurd environmental regulations.

John Stossel

#28. Government is not competent enough to regulate.

James Cook

#29. The President today once again took the opportunity to reiterate his old, failed national security strategies and present them to the American people as new, dynamic ideas intended to better protect the American people.

Ellen Tauscher

#30. He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

William James

#31. Just remember everything happens for a reason. We just have to pick ourselves up, and look on the bright side of life.

Megan Smith

#32. We need fresh, new leadership with bold ideas and a new approach to get more people back to work with quality jobs and restored dignity in the lives of our Utahns.

Scott Howell