Corsican Proverb Quotes

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

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

You will always miss chances, but you can't do anything about them once they've gone. It's always about the next chance.

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

The world does not wait for you.

Opportunity only knocks so many times.

I'd let my golden chances pass me by.

Nothing is so irretrievably missed as an opportunity we encounter every day.

Through indecision opportunity is often lost.

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.

Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.

I don't regret what I've done but some of the things I didn't do.

You don't get many chances in the world, and you don't want to throw them away.

A lot of times you get a good opportunity and it never comes again.

I believe opportunity doesn't knock twice!

We all know of people who thought they could to it (whatever “it” is) tomorrow. We have all procrastinated on such a way, and often to our personal regret. It happens time and again, putting off things that we convince ourselves might be better, more meaningful, more appropriate for another time. So often that better time either never comes or really isn’t better or more appropriate after all. And then, sadly, the window of opportunity -to do something great- closes.

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

Our biggest mistakes, were things we didn't do, companies we didn't buy.

We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. I do not regret that, however. I regret the conversations we never had, the time we did not spend together. I regret that I never told him that he made me happy, when I was in his company. The world was the better for his being in it. These things alone do I now regret: things left unsaid. And he is gone, and I am old.

So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge.

I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.

There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.