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  • There are no lost opportunities in Divine Mind, as one door shuts another door is opened.

    Florence Scovel Shinn (2013). “Your Word is Your Wand: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.8, Lulu Press, Inc
  • Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

  • Los Angeles is a sprawl of broken dreams and lost opportunities, disconnected souls and entertainment junkies. The sunny skies and graceful palms don't redeem jammed roadways to nowhere.

    Dream   Opportunity   Sky  
    Carolyn Hart (2009). “Death in Lovers' Lane”, p.1, Harper Collins
  • The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for lost opportunities. Mithra-Grandchamp is the women we were unable to love, the chances we failed to seize, the moments of happiness we allowed to drift away. Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses: a race whose result we know beforehand but in which we fail to bet on the winner.

    Memories   Regret   Past  
    Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.94, Knopf Group E-Books
  • My mantra: Brainless exercise is a lost opportunity for improvement.

  • The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

    Speech in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 12, 1959.
  • Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

  • I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.

    Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.142, Om Books International
  • Resisted temptations become lost opportunities.

  • While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.

    Opportunity   Mind   Lost  
  • My greatest talent is calmness and being positive. I concentrate on what you can do even in the worst of times. You don't judge by last week's errors or lost opportunity.

  • We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.

    Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City
  • I might have speculated on my chances of going to Heaven; but candidly I did not care. I could not have wept if I had tried. I had no wish to review the evils of my past. But the past did seem to have been a bit wasted. The road to Hell may be paved with good intentions: the road to Heaven is paved with lost opportunities.

    Past   Opportunity   Evil  
    Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2013). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913”, p.238, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

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

  • Sitting on the sidelines, cribbing and moaning is a lost opportunity. I don’t know how people who engage in that don’t commit suicide.

    "NAMA makes £150m on London deal" by Lisa O'Carroll, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2011.
  • Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people.

    Ban Ki-moon's closing remarks at High Level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, www.un.org. September 22, 2010.
  • We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. . . . Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, 'Too late.' ... Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world.

    Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City
  • Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

    Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.133, Jerome K. Jerome
  • We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.

  • Beginning today, I will create a new future by creating a new me. No longer will I dwell in a pit of despair, moaning over squandered time and lost opportunity. I can do nothing about the past. My future is immediate. I will grasp it in both hands and carry it with running feet. When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act! I seize this moment. I choose now.

    Running   Passion   Past  
    Andy Andrews (2005). “The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success”, p.69, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • The task is to keep the lost opportunities of the past alive.

  • The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.

  • Errors of omission, lost opportunities, are generally more critical than errors of commission. Organizations fail or decline more frequently because of what they did not do than because of what they did.

  • A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

    Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1089, RosettaBooks
  • When the man is traveling with a man, he says, "Let's stay up late and work on this and get this to be better." When the man's traveling with the woman, for the sake of appearances he doesn't do the work with her. That's a lost opportunity for her to be a success.

    Opportunity   Men   Sake  
  • Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

    William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.134, Booklassic
  • Tears never yet saved a soul. Hell is full of weepers weeping over lost opportunities, perhaps over the rejection of an offered Saviour. Your Bible does not say, "Weep, and be saved." It says, "Believe, and be saved." Faith is better than feeling.

    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 244, 1895.
  • As the United States chains itself down with greater debt, China is building relationships across the globe to bolster its trade, its access to natural resources, and its energy consumption. In far too many cases, this means lost opportunities for America and our businesses.

  • Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

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