Missed Opportunity Quotes

• Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Good Morning, Missing You

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• Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Opportunity, Reality, Fda

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• I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.

  Andy Rooney

  Opportunity, Missing, I've Learned

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• Don't allow missed opportunities of the past interfere with the opportunities that are right before you.

  Ryan Robbins

  Past, Opportunity, Interfere

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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• I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Opportunity, Able

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.108, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones.

  I. M. Pei

  Opportunity, Worry, Stop Worrying

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• 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

  Regret, Opportunity, Views

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Eric Roth

  Life, I Hate You, Emotional

  "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Milton Berle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone.

  Jodi Picoult

  Cutting, Opportunity, Bones

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• 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.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Regret, Past

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Lilian Cheung (2010). “Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.

  Graydon Carter

  Epic, Opportunity, Tales

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• How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the reality turned out differently? Paperback romances and fairy tales promote an ideal of a first and only love, but few of us can claim to have had such uncomplicated good fortune. For most people, the process of finding the perfect partner is one trial and error: breakups, makeups, missed opportunities and misunderstandings. Human love is a fragile creation, and sometimes the smallest thing - the wrong choice of words or a single clumsy gesture - can make love shatter, stall or fade away.

  Haruki Murakami

  Breakup, Reality, Love Is

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• While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

  Publilius Syrus

  Attitude, Opportunity, Thinking

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 185, 1856.

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• 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

  Opportunity, Reality, Imagination

  Roger Ebert (2004). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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  Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Farewell, Opportunity, Names

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Sonnet XCVII: A Superscription”

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• Why cry about missed opportunities when you have the ability to smile at opportunities lived? The past has created who you are NOW, where we learn and grow from the past, never resting upon previous achievements or allowing past failure to paralyze us in our current endeavor. All that was has created us to be the best we currently are for our greatest hour is about to arise!

  Greg Plitt

  Past, Opportunity, Achievement

  FaceBook post by Greg Plitt from May 10, 2012

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• Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

  Cyril Connolly

  Opportunity, Youth, Periods

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• Opportunity is a bird that never perches.

  Claude Maxwell MacDonald

  Opportunity, Bird, Life Opportunity

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• But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Regret, Fate, Opportunity

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• We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

  Jim Broadbent

  Book, Opportunity, Black

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

  Thomas Leonard

  Opportunity, Way, Unsaid

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