Missed Chances Quotes:

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

- Jack Canfield

source: Twitter post from Oct 08, 2015

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspiration And Life, Inspirational Success Failure

The past, for everyone, is full of missed chances, surviving to understand them, if not set them straight, is one of the things that makes the next breath worth taking.

- Le Ly Hayslip

source: Le Ly Hayslip (2012). “When Heaven and Earth Changed Places”, p.261, Anchor

topic: Past, Next, Chance, Missed Chances

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness, Thought Of The Day, Self Determination

I never miss a good chance to shut up

- James Patterson

source: James Patterson (2017). “Along Came a Spider: (Alex Cross 1)”, p.237, Random House

topic: Missing, Chance, Shut Up, Languages Communication, Missed Chances

...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

- Stephen King

topic: Two, Stupidity, Retrospect, Missed Chances

As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted over missed chances, over inefficient days; they worried constantly about how long they would live, because counting life’s moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down. Soon, in every nation and in every language, time became the most precious commodity.

- Mitch Albom

source: Mitch Albom (2012). “The Time Keeper”, p.40, Hachette UK

topic: Heart, Long, People, Missed Chances, Lost Time

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

topic: Past, Opportunity, Thinking, Missed Chances, Missed Opportunity