Missed Opportunity Quotes - Page 2

• Just as, in travel, one may miss seeing the sunset because one cannot find the ticket-office or is afraid of missing the train, so in even the closest human relationships a vast amount of time and of affection is drained away in minor misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and failures in consideration or understanding.

  Iris Origo

  Sunset, Opportunity, Office

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• How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Regret, Mistake

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 04, 2014

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• I always thought that I could write a novel. In my case, it was misguided. I do believe that the best nonfiction is not "literary journalism," a misleading term, but rather journalism that asks the questions that serious literature asks. It's storytelling that happens to be true. So I don't think it was a missed opportunity. After awhile you learn what you're really good at. Life is short, so spend time doing that.

  Ron Rosenbaum

  Believe, Writing, Life Is Short

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• There's no point whining about missed opportunities.

  Martin Schulz

  Opportunity, Whining, No Point

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• [God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Pain, Regret, Opportunity

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• He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

  Andrew Lang

  Opportunity, Tongue, Public Speaking

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• For me, the times I always regret are missed opportunities to say farewell to good people, to wish them long life and say to them in all sincerity, "You build and do not destroy; you sow goodwill and reap it; smiles bloom in the wake of your passing, and I will keep your kindness in trust and share it as occasion arises, so that your life will be a quenching draught of calm in a land of drought and stress." Too often I never get to say that when it should be said. Instead, I leave them with the equivalent of a "Later, dude!" only to discover there would be no later for us.

  Kevin Hearne

  Kindness, Regret, Stress

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.716, Del Rey

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• 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

  Opportunity, Trying, Pieces

  Matthew Carter (2009). “Liquid Soul”, p.7, Matthew Carter

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• 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

  Regret, Opportunity, Allowance

  Alain de Botton (2012). “How Proust Can Change Your Life”, p.123, Pan Macmillan

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• 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

  Jobs, Opportunity, Thinking

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• 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

  Past, Opportunity, Thinking

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• I never really look at life and worry about missed opportunities.

  Clive Owen

  Opportunity, Worry, Looks

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• 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

  Change, Opportunity, Mirrors

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• 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

  Love, Opportunity, Bars

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• [When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advantages squandered.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Hurt, Regret, Opportunity

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.251, A&C Black

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• 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

  Strong, Mean, Opportunity

  Penelope Fitzgerald (2009). “A House of Air”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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• 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

  Opportunity, Leader, Risk

  Twitter post from Aug 31, 2016

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• The fact that women begin to avoid running for public office because of the harassment and sometimes even violence that they face as a hazard, it means that the world is being robbed of extraordinary leadership that women can bring to bear. And of course, if women as professionals begin to look at making career choices because they're looking at whether Am I going to be safe or not? You can imagine the missed opportunities that are out there for women.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Running, Mean, Opportunity

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the back end.

  Sloane Crosley

  Opportunity, Cities, Ends

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.8, Penguin

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• The reality of the Life Review is becoming part of our every day understanding. We know that after death, we have to look at our lives again; and we’re going to agonize over every missed opportunity, over every case in which we failed to act. This knowledge is contributing to our determination to pursue every intuitive image that comes to mind, and keep it firmly in awareness. We’re living life in a more deliberate way. We don’t want to miss a single important event. We don’t want the pain of looking back later and realizing that we blew it, that we failed to make the right decisions.

  James Redfield

  Determination, Pain, Live Life

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• I don't feel a yearning or a sense of missed opportunities. I don't have many regrets. So that's a nice feeling. To have no regrets and still have enough sense of adventure to take on risk.

  Michael J. Fox

  Regret, Nice, Adventure

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

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• People expect those in authority to take on big problems and to solve them. We had an opportunity to reform Social Security in a way that would have protected people's benefits and created a solvent system. Younger workers would be confident that the money they were putting into the system would be available to them when they retired. It was a missed opportunity. I regret that.

  George W. Bush

  Regret, Opportunity, People

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

  Lily Tomlin

  Inspiring, Failure, Fall

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• Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Max Eastman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

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• 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

  New York, Opportunity, Years

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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