Quotes on Missed Opportunity

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

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

I’ve seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

[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.

[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.

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

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.