Regret Quotes

Hard to move on when you always regret one.

If I lost your respect...I'm just hope you don't look at me as something you regret.

I'm very versatile and there's nothing I really regret in my life. I'm excited with who I am and I'm just going to keep riding the wave.

Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you the kind of protection that bodyguards can’t give you. So try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity. Take up the battle. Take it up. It’s yours. This is your life. This is your world.

I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the Marine Corps.

There is no reason to regret that I cannot finish the church. I will grow old but others will come after me. What must always be conserved is the spirit of the work, but its life has to depend on the generations it is handed down to and with whom it lives and is incarnated

I don't do regrets. 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.

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted.

God is the God of 'right now.' He doesn't want you sitting around regretting yesterday. Nor does He want you wringing your hands and worrying about the future. He wants you focusing on what He is saying to you and putting in front of you ... right now.

I never regret my past... Only time I wasted was on the wrong people.

You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

Never say that you regret something, because at one point in your life, you wanted it.

We are commanded to love God with all our strength, heart, mind and soul and our neighbor in the same way God loves us - it is the same love flowing between God and the soul - the soul and its neighbor. It is difficult, but the burden of the cross is light compared to the cross of uncontrolled emotions, anger, insistence on one's own opinion, the frustration of trying to change others rather than being changed oneself, resentment, regrets and guilt. Accepting the present moment like Jesus did is certainly a lighter burden.

You have this one life. How do you wanna spend it? Apologizing? Regretting? Questioning? Hating yourself? Dieting? Running after people who don't see you? Be brave. Believe in yourself. Do what feels good. Take risks. You have this one life. Make yourself proud.

With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself.

If you don't learn from your mistakes, then they become regrets.

I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets.

A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.

To be honest and truthful in all endeavours is an experience, not a regret

I don’t regret any of the decisions I’ve made in my life. Because with every choice I’ve made, I’ve learned something new.

it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.

Live fast, fight hard, no regrets!

Remember: Life is short, break the rules (they were made to be broken) Forgive quickly, kiss slowly Love truly, laugh uncontrollably And never regret anything that makes you smile. The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full (though the answers won't be found at the bottom) Don't sweat the small stuff, You are who you are meant to be, Dance as if no one's watching, Love as if it's all you know, Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die today

Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.

A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart, out of a place where he can do mischief - even by pogroms, if necessary. The Jews are responsible for Bolshevism in Russia, and Germany too. I was far too indulgent with them during my reign, and I bitterly regret the favors I showed the prominent Jewish bankers.

Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.

I don’t regret anything. I did everything absolutely correctly.

I don't regret my past, I just regret the time I've wasted on the wrong people.

Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings.

If you have confidence in your own words, aspirations, thoughts, and actions and do your very best, you will have no need to regret the outcome of what you do. Fear and trembling are lot of the person who, while stinting effort, hopes that everything will come out precisely as he wants.

I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?

After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine.

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

My religion is to live and die without regret.

I fear nothing and I regret less.

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

Regret not that which is past; and trust not to thine own righteousness.

My young friends, I look forward to you as the real makers of Pakistan, do not be exploited and do not be misled. Create amongst yourselves complete unity and solidarity. Set an example of what youth can do. Your main occupation should be in fairness to yourself, to your parents, in fairness to the State, to devote your attention to your studies. If you fritter away your energies now, you will always regret.

Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.

Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: Yesterday's regret and tomorrow's worries.

Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

I apologize to the women I’ve hurt. I deeply regret what I did and know that it has forever impacted all of our lives.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.