“Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.”
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“The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”
As quoted in The Jerusalem Post (18 November 2002) http://www.factsofisrael.com/blog/archives/000491.html; often misquoted as "Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity." The quote is attributed to Abba Eban after the Geneva Peace Conference http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/geneva.html with Arab countries (21 December 1973).
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“I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.”
Source: The Year of Pleasures
“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”
Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
“We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity.”
Quoted in "Enter Japan" - "Time Magazine" article - July 8, 1940
“While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.”
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Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“I've learned…. That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.”