Paulo Coelho Quotes

People let little things cheat them out of big opportunities

Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.

The timing of your decision is just as important as the decision you make.

Through indecision opportunity is often lost.

You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.

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

The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.

In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.

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

You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.

In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

I just cannot have an offer on the table and just let it go.

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

The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

You certainly know when you have an opportunity, and you want to take advantage of it. And it's certainly disappointing when you don't.

Around the time that Girls Aloud was at its biggest, I was offered some huge acting roles in America. I decided to stay loyal to the band rather than take those other opportunities. Sometimes I wonder whether I should have just taken them.

If you get an opportunity, you get an opportunity, but it really comes down to the people behind the scenes and the manager. You can't do anything about it.

If you do not take advantage of your chances, you can pay for it.

It's all about timing and taking out big shots at the right time.

Or is there no such thing as 'too late'? Is there only 'late' and is 'late' always better than 'never'? I don't know.

Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more.

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.

Summits are best at dealing with problems, where the need for action is urgent and the range of possible actions limited. They are less good at dealing with opportunities.