A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps. – Charles Goodyear
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. – John Barrymore
A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement – yet it had been the truth. – Hermann Hesse
A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference. – Grenville Kleiser
Always be truthful and you will have fewer visits from regret, guilt or fear. – Suzy Kassem
Anyone who doesn’t regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains. – Vladimir Putin
Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it’s a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret. – Richard Dawkins
Concentrating on negatives, regrets or second thoughts won’t change what has happened. – A.C.Aseh
Dead people receive more flowers than living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude. – Anne Frank
Everybody was sorry. Sorry was easy. Sorry was for suckers. – Gretchen McNeil
For much of my life, I existed in a condition of regret, a regret that was contemporaneous with experience, and which sometimes preceded experience. – Greg Baxter
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ‘It might have been! – John Greenleaf Whittier
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. – Jonathan Larson
Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren’t accompanied by regret. – Laura Kasischke
Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Hurting people you love is the heaviest kind of regret. – Charlotte Eriksson
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. – Nathan Hale
I regret things all the time. I’ve never regretted not saying something. I’ve only regretted saying something. – Chrissy Teigen
If I’m sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow? – José Saramago
If we fill our hours with regrets over the failures of yesterday . . . we have no today in which to be thankful. – Unknown
If you ever react with anger, it will overtake you. You will say something or do something you regret. – Rhonda Hart
If you’ve truly tried your best, you’ve got nothing to regret. – Pep Talk Radio
Insomnia haunted me like regret. – K. Weikel
It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret. – Jackie Joyner-Kersee
It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done. – Billie Joe Armstrong
It’s better to regret what you do, than regret what you didn’t do. – William Nolan
Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile. –Mark Twain
Life is simple: Make choices and don’t look back. – Sung Kang
Live with no excuses and love with no regrets. – Montel Williams
Living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse. – Jodi Picoult
Love lives in sealed bottles of regret. – Seán O’faoláin
Love yourself; you won’t regret it ever. – M.F. Moonzajer
Make each day a day to remember not to regret. Celebrate your own special qualities and the fact that you are a unique individual. – Catherine Pulsifer
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret the past and fear of the future. – Fulton Oursler
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. – Arthur Miller
Men didn’t have any idea about regret before God felt so once after created us. – Toba Beta
My biggest regret is what I didn’t say… (Jake) – Keary Taylor
My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse. – Jodi Picoult
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. – Woody Allen
Never reject yourself due to the sins you have committed. Regret will do nothing; repent and do something! – Israelmore Ayivor
No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future. – Umar ibn Al-Khattab
No human on his deathbed ever regretted having spent too much time with his children. – George Stamatis
No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused. – Charles Dickens
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it – George Halas
Nothing is so weakening as regret. – James G. Blaine
One can’t reason away regret-it’s a bit like falling in love, falling into regret. – Graham Greene
One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself. – Shannon L. Alder
Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven’t done. – Chad Michael Murray
Recovery is hard. Regret is harder. – Brittany Burgunder
Regret … when it comes to you, I have oceans of it. – Khaled Hosseini
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. – Sydney J. Harris
Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. – Mason Cooley
Regret is counterproductive. It’s looking back on a past that you can’t change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future. – Colleen Hoover
Regret is mostly caused by not having done anything. – Charles Bukowski
Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I’m content. – William Shatner
Regret swallows broken men whole. Acceptance builds them anew. – Sarah Noffke
Regret; The saddest word in the English language. – Tonya Hurley
Regrets are pointless. It’s too late for regrets. You’ve already done it, haven’t you? You’ve lived your life. No point wishing you could change it. – Lemmy Kilmister
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs. – Charles Dickens
Remorse is the poison of life. – Charlotte Bronte
Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets. – Khalil Gibran
Speak when you’re angry, and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret. – Lawrence J. Peter
Stop fretting about past decisions. They have provided valuable wisdom. Go forward without fear or regret. – Paul Martens
Take care that you don’t come to know, a thing that’s called regret. – Wish Belkin
The best advice I ever received? Simple: Have no regrets. – Richard Branson
The longer our trail of regrets, the more we tend to value the importance of making wise decisions. – Bob Santos
The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret. – Leo Buscaglia
The only things I regret, and the only things I’ll ever regret are things I didn’t do. In the end, that’s what we mourn. The paths we didn’t take. The people we didn’t touch. – Scott Spencer
The only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes. – Oscar Wilde
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. – Napoleon Bonaparte
The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. – Oscar Wilde
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor. – William Hazlitt
The price of fear is often regret for what could have been. – Brian Cagneey
The regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit. – Rafael Sabatini
The regrets most people have in their old age are for the things they never did. – N.C. Harley
There are so many things that I want so badly to tell you but I just can’t. – Nina LaCour
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity. – Bodhidharma
To regret deeply is to live afresh. – Henry David Thoreau
To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing. – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Today’s excuses are tomorrow’s regrets dressed in disguise. – Steven Furtick
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. – Chief Seattle
Under any circumstance, simply do your best and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. – Don Miguel Ruiz
Unforgiving hearts die in regret. – Unknown
We all make mistakes in life that’s true. Some little, some big, some simple and some more complex. Some mistakes we regret forever. – Rashard Royster
We cannot always change what has happened to us, but we can change how we react and how we live in the future. Living with no regrets is living successfully. – Dr Ellen Taricani
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. – Jim Rohn
We never regret having eaten too little. – Thomas Jefferson
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. – Lucy Maud Montgomery
We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; we sit by old tombs in the dark too long. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time. – E. W. Howe
You can’t regret the life you didn’t lead. – Junot Díaz
You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often. – Ian Gabirol
You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons. – Nina LaCour
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle, old age a regret – Benjamin Disraeli
NO REGRET QUOTES
But I don’t regret anything that I’ve gone through, because it makes me who I am. – Nick Carter
Do not feel sad for your tears as rocks never regret the waterfalls. – Munia Khan
Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. – Unknown
Don’t cry over spilt milk. – Aesop
Don’t live in regret! It is such a useless idea. Use memory to prevent us from doing bad things! Regret is a childish wish, or an empty hope, trying to revise the bitter memory of the past. – Toba Beta
Don’t regret your mistakes. You’ll always make mistakes. The better you are, the fewer the mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to thoroughly analyze your mistakes. – James Altucher
I have no regrets because I know I did my best – all I could do. – Midori Ito
I never regret my past… the only time I wasted was on the wrong people. – Tyga
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can’t build on it it’s only good for wallowing in. – Katherine Mansfield
Never despair, keep pushing on! – Sir Thomas Lipton
Never look back and regret, look back and smile at what you have learned. –Michelle C. Ustaszeski
Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm, I’m not going to waste my time crying. – Jude Watson
Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience. – Jean Plaidy
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