Quotes About Wasted Chances

#1. The place smelled of smoke and sweat, of spilled drinks and sprayed vomit, of desperation and wasted chances

Joe Abercrombie

#2. Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.

David Mitchell

#3. She believed in second chances, sometimes more than first chances, which were wasted on youth and indiscretion.

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

#4. What made him most anxious, he told me, was not the big questions - the mercilessness of fate, the possibility of heaven. He was too exhausted, he said, to wrestle with those. But he'd become impatient with the way people wasted their lives, squandered their chances like paychecks.

Wally Lamb

#5. A prisoner should know that there are thousands of imprisoned freemen living in this world ... jailed in their own society, handcuffed by duties..

Munia Khan

#6. The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its
value.

Charles Dudley Warner

#7. If you dread the thought of wasted time in meetings, chances are that your team members feel the same way. Team members are also demotivated by one-way discussions, haphazard participation and arbitrary decisions. Structure every meeting at the start and summarize them at the end.

Martin Zwilling

#8. My show is an anti-show and the audience have to want to listen. I'm sitting down, there's only one of me, I don't talk much to the audience and it is very quiet. I wouldn't be able to do that kind of show if people didn't know me and my material.

Jose Gonzalez

#9. No one really understands a family but the people in it and even they each understand it differently.

Polly Horvath

#10. Olives are the wishbones of the cocktail world; rarely are they freely passed along to somebody else.

Augusten Burroughs

#11. Time is like the fan, if you keep enjoying its comfortable air without using it distinctively, you shall surely feel its true and real hotness when it stops its cool and refreshing air

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#12. 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

#13. You string some letters together, and you make a word. You string some words together, and you make a sentence, then a paragraph, then a chapter. Words have power.

Chloe Neill

#14. You just need a little perspective. Warmed chocolate can give you that.

Giada De Laurentiis

#15. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have all of tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely by planning and setting priorities. The fact is, time is worth more than money, and by killing time we are killing our own chances for success.

Denis Waitley

#16. When you forgive everyone, you have no one to fight.

Debasish Mridha