Top 85 Quotes About Missed Opportunity
#1. There was no reason to get upset over one missed opportunity when so many more lay ahead.
Andrew Beyer
#3. One thing we did well the whole tournament was keep fighting. And no matter what happened the point before, missed opportunity, missed easy shot, we just played the next point and blocked it out of our mind. That's why we're the champs.
Daniel Nestor
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. What is left unsaid gets in the way of the relationship. What is left unasked-for is a missed opportunity.
Thomas Leonard
#10. 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
#11. Three things cannot be retrieved:
The arrow once sped from the bow
The word spoken in haste
The missed opportunity.
Ali, the Lion of Islam.
Idries Shah
#12. Three Things
Three things cannot be retrieved:
The arrow once sped from the bow
The word spoken in haste
The missed opportunity.
(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),
Idries Shah
#13. 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
#14. The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.
Bernard-Henri Levy
#15. 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
#16. A missed opportunity repentance only leaves behind
Eve Berlin
#17. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. They would congratulate themselves every morning on keeping their integrity, and blame themselves each night for that missed opportunity.
Paulo Coelho
#22. 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
#23. Every day that goes by and we don't win a ballgame, that's a missed opportunity for us to battle back.
Brett Gardner
#24. 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
#25. The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It's only after it's gone, you'd realize that you missed it.
Uday Kotak
#26. 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
#27. What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.
Audrey Hepburn
#28. 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
#29. A chance not taken is an opportunity missed.
Ken Petti
#31. 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
#32. How could I have missed the opportunity to pop pills with my sister who was purer than a Quaker?
Chelsea Handler
#33. I lost the match. I blame only myself for this. There were many opportunities to win. But I missed them, no one else.
Anatoly Karpov
#34. How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.
Paulo Coelho
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. I've had recurring nightmares that I was loved for who I am ... and missed the opportunity to be a better man.
Muse
#38. Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.
Claire Keegan
#39. On the morning appointed for Admiral Croft and Mrs. Croft's seeing Kellynch-hall, Anne found it most natural to take her almost daily walk to Lady Russell, and keep out of the way till all was over; when she found it most natural to be sorry that she had missed the opportunity of seeing them.
Jane Austen
#41. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
Greg Crabtree
#42. 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
#43. I knew that in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late again. I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome.
Sarah Dessen
#44. I have always loved clothes, and the opportunity to design my own line could not be missed. It's a dream job.
Jasmine Guinness
#45. 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
#46. Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
Lily Tomlin
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#51. Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.
Jennifer Lopez
#52. The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.
Seth Godin
#53. He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.
Andrew Lang
#54. The whole point of all these conversations is to leave your mind empty, not full. If you go away with learning, you have missed the opportunity
Mooji
#55. 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
#56. Acting is always something I thought I could do, and I thought I would be pretty good at it, but I thought that I missed the opportunity, that it was too late.
Greg Poehler
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. And also don't forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.
Clifford Irving
#65. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. There's no point whining about missed opportunities.
Martin Schulz
#71. Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in
Orison Swett Marden
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. For so-called conscious rappers, it is an opportunity to rap about ways to educate others about African American history, politics and even relationships: all of which would be missed if society merely focused on the "hook" and ignored the influence.
Carlos Wallace
#76. I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, and the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, which I have done my best to treat as comedy - for otherwise how can we manage to bear it?
Penelope Fitzgerald
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones.
I.M. Pei
#80. Where procrastination and excuses reign, success is highly missed than delayed. Opportunity they say comes but once. You must therefore be prepared to tap every good opportunity that appears on your way
Israelmore Ayivor
#81. They speak little; it is as if the air has been churned up with decade's worth of fruitless pursuit and missed connections and thoughts unspoken, and they are waiting quietly for all this matter - these motes of opportunity forgone - to settle around them.
Doug Dorst
#82. I don't think you would have missed that putt, but in these circumstances, I would never give you the opportunity.
Jack Nicklaus
#83. If you believe that that the one opportunity you missed is the last one you'll ever get, then that is exactly what will happen: no more opportunities ever.
Stephen Richards
#85. Don't allow missed opportunities of the past interfere with the opportunities that are right before you.
Ryan Robbins
