David Jason Quotes

I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.

As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?

If I was starting off now, I would probably have taken one or two different turnings along the way.

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

When you get older, it's not about what you did that you regret, it's what you didn't do.

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

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.

Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

Regrets are born of paths never taken.

Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.

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

When you regret something, what you aren’t seeing is that someday, later, or maybe sooner, you’re going to see why you didn’t get the thing you wanted. So often, something better is just around the corner.

Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted.

For every woman who's ever wondered about the path not taken, Fenton and Steinke mine—with tremendous humor and insight—the mixed blessing of unexpected second chances.

The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces.

But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.

Usually you regret the things you say no to.

Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.

That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.

I never went to college. I think about it a lot. I can't watch a game without thinking where I would have been if I had ga head and went to college and pursued my career.

The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.

There were endless ways to spend your days, I knew that, none of them right or wrong. But given the chance for a real do-over, another way around, who would say no?

I always think about opportunity and how you regret the things you don't do.