16 Movie Quotes about Missed Opportunities (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: August 23, 2025

Memorable quotes about missed opportunities, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 M'lad. You're passing up a golden opportunity. I am? -You can be famous. I can?

Quote from Alice in Wonderland (1951)

2 Back then I thought, Well, there'll be other days. I didn't realize that that was the only day.

Burt Lancaster as Moonlight Graham in Field of Dreams (1989)

3 If you were waiting for the opportune moment, that was it.

Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean 1: The Curse of the Black Pearl

4 Have it your way, kid. But remember what Shakespeare said. And I quote. Opportunity knocks but... -Psst! Once! -But once! Taken at the tide, t'will lead to fortune. If denied, t'will never return.

Quote from An American Tail

5 Yes. Poor girl. To have died so young without ever having experienced me.

Miles Gloriosus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

6 Look, it just doesn't happen twice.

Tom Hanks as Sam Baldwin in Sleepless in Seattle

7 So what was that like? -It was like coming this close to your dreams, and then watch them brush past you, like a stranger in a crowd.

Burt Lancaster as Moonlight Graham in Field of Dreams (1989)

8 At the time, you don't think much of it. You know, we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening.

Burt Lancaster as Moonlight Graham in Field of Dreams (1989)

9 I sure wish we'd have taken the train.

Bob Newhart as Bernard in The Rescuers (1977)

10 I give you the opportunity of a lifetime, and you just blow it!

Quote from Despicable Me

16 Movie Quotes about Missed Opportunities (Sound Clips)

1 M'lad. You're passing up a golden opportunity. I am? -You can be famous. I can?

2 Back then I thought, Well, there'll be other days. I didn't realize that that was the only day.

3 If you were waiting for the opportune moment, that was it.

4 Have it your way, kid. But remember what Shakespeare said. And I quote. Opportunity knocks but... -Psst! Once! -But once! Taken at the tide, t'will lead to fortune. If denied, t'will never return.

5 Yes. Poor girl. To have died so young without ever having experienced me.

6 Look, it just doesn't happen twice.

7 So what was that like? -It was like coming this close to your dreams, and then watch them brush past you, like a stranger in a crowd.

8 At the time, you don't think much of it. You know, we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening.

9 I sure wish we'd have taken the train.

10 I give you the opportunity of a lifetime, and you just blow it!

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