Best opportunity & lost Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

“Opportunities change, strategies change, but people and psychology do not change. If trend-following systems don’t work well, something else will. There’s always money being lost, so someone out there has to win.”

People Ifs Wells Opportunity Winning Lost Psychology Strategy Following Trends

Author:Gil Blake

“Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”

“Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing struck them as a decorative display opportunity tragically lost.”

Book Opportunity Lost Rooms Saws One Thing Filled Colour Just One Display Shelves Never Quit Decorators

Author:Peter York

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

Mind Opportunity Lost Making Up Lost Opportunity

Author:Quintilian

“Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.”

“It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.”

Done Opportunity Lost Late Thirds Seasons Too Late Agriculture Maxims

Book:The Natural History of Pliny

Source: The Natural History of Pliny

“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.”

Believe Doe Soul Feelings Opportunity Lost Hell Tears Saved Rejection Weeping Saviour Lost Opportunity

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“Never was a person more mortified than I was at this time, to see so fair an opportunity to push a victory; Detroit lost for want of a few men.”

Men Want Persons Opportunity Lost Victory Fairs Detroit

Author:George Rogers Clark

“Perfidy and brutal force thwarted opportunities for calling President Wilson's Arbitral Award to life. Nevertheless, its significance is not to be underestimated: through that decision the aspiration of the Armenian people for the lost Motherland had obtained vital and legal force.”

People Opportunity Lost Force President Decision Calling Aspiration Significance Awards Brutal Nevertheless Wilson Underestimated Armenians Motherland Perfidy President Wilson

Author:Serzh Sargsyan

“How often have I rattled on with God and said nothing at all? Relying on clichés, throwaway phrases, and high language I'd never use in everyday conversation, I took prayer for granted and lost sight of the wondrous opportunity to draw close to God.”

Said Use Opportunity Lost Language Prayer Conversation Draws Sight Everyday Granted Phrases Wondrous

Author:Margaret Feinberg

“Allowing the fly to sink to the fish's level, the angler makes a retrieve. The fly comes directly at the fish, which suddenly sees its approach. As the small fly get nearer, the fish moves forward to strike, but the tiny fly doesn't flee at the sight of the predator. Instead it continues to come directly toward the fish. Suddenly the fish realizes intuitively that something is wrong(its never happened before), so it flees until it can assess the situation. An opportunity for the angler has been lost.”

Has Beens Moving Opportunity Lost Realizing Levels Situation Happened Sea Approach Rivers Sight Fishes Strikes Tiny Moving Forward Boat Lakes Fishing Allowing Predator Anglers

Author:Lefty Kreh

“I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.”

Wanted Opportunity Lost Stupid My Family Accidents Neighborhood

Author:Olivier Martinez

“Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a "wicked and slothful servant." For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done.”

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.”

Opportunity Lost

Author:Ovid

“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.”

Soul Dream Opportunity Lost Sky Broken Entertainment Los Angeles Palms Sunny Junkie Disconnected Broken Dreams Lost Opportunity

Book:Death in Lovers' Lane

Source: Death in Lovers' Lane

“Resisted temptations become lost opportunities.”

Opportunity Lost Temptation Lost Opportunity

Author:Margaret Ayer Barnes

“The opportunity should not be lost, which is afforded by the occasion, for illustrating and enforcing the thought that the universe, its creation, its arrangement, and all of its developing processes, are not due to human planning or oversight, but to the infinite wisdom and power of God.”

Should Humans Universe Opportunity Lost Process Creation Infinite Dues Planning Occasions Developing Arrangements Power Of God Oversight Illustrating

Author:Andrew S. Draper

“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.”

Men Opportunity Lost He Man Late Sake Appearance Lost Opportunity

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“Sometimes you're working in highly emotional scenes and you'll get lost in the moment. You're having fun with your friend at work. It's an opportunity to give to them as much as they've given back to you.”

Giving Sometimes Moments Opportunity Lost Given Fun Emotional Scene Having Fun Working It

Author:Milo Ventimiglia

“Everybody who works in the computer industry is in an industry that didn't exist twenty-five years ago. We are talking on cell phones, and there were no such things. All the people who work for Nextel and so on, those are lost jobs that became found jobs. We are in a constant state of changing, and there are numerous opportunities in a time like this, but people are still going back to the fear.”

People Years Stills States Jobs Found Opportunity Lost Talking Five Industry Computer Years Ago Twenties Constant Phones Cells Five Years Cell Phone Twenty Five

Author:Wayne Dyer

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