Living In Regret Quotes

#1. You have to grow. If not you're then living in regret and you're living in the past and you're not progressing forward. And I learned the mistakes that I made and they made me stronger.

Liz Carmouche

#2. Living in regret will become your biggest regret.

Bill Johnson

#3. What if today you gave yourself permission to be outrageously kind? What if you extended as much good will and kindness as you can possibly muster to every person you meet? And what if you did it with no thought of reward? I'm sure of one thing: it will be a day you will never regret.

Steve Goodier

#4. The only thing worse than living with regret, is dying with regret.

Jewel E. Ann

#5. My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

Jodi Picoult

#6. I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.

Francesca Annis

#7. Regret is not the same as guilt. It is expressed by: 'I can't believe I did that. It's not like me. This is not how I am! How could I do such a thing?' It means to see ourselves as the best we can be, and to be disappointed in not living up to that.

Yael Shahar

#8. A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a grounds for regret but as a living challenge.

Carlos Castaneda

#9. No regrets doesn't mean living with courage, it means living without reflection. To live without regret is to believe you have nothing to learn, no amends to make, and no opportunity to be braver with your life. (P.211)

Brene Brown

#10. As for the healing, that comes from the writing, from living and writing. That's my catharsis. That's why I never regret sharing because it's part of my healing!

Karrine Steffans

#11. I don't regret doing 'The Living Daylights'. If I hadn't done Bond, I wouldn't have been in America doing my series, and I would have had a different life.

Maryam D'Abo

#12. We must embrace the fact that if we don't commit to thinking and living differently than most people now, we are setting ourselves up to endure a life of mediocrity, struggle, failure and regret-just like most people.

Hal Elrod

#13. People's most common regret was living the life others expected of them, rather than having the courage to live a life true to themselves, and realising some dreams had gone unfulfilled as a result.

Bianca Nogrady

#14. The negative feelings of anger, bitterness, guilt, regret, resentment, and sadness represent a failure of a person to accept that the past is an event that holds no power over the present. The thought that the future will bring salvation is an illusion. We must exist in the present.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#15. The only thing worse than regretting the things you've done is regretting the things you didn't do.

Samantha Leahy

#16. We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.

Steve Maraboli

#17. I'm not sure why the saying goes ... "be careful what you wish for" ... it should be, "prepare yourself for your wishes". We need to know ahead of time to prepare for what we wish for, so that when our wishes come true, we don't regret the wish or have them turn into nightmares.

C. Nzingha Smith

#18. All of my plays are about people missing the boat, closing down too young, coming to the end of their lives with regret at things not done, as opposed to things done. II find most people spend too much time living as if they're never going to die.

Edward Albee

#19. While you're telling yourself you'll 'do it tomorrow', I'm doing it today. And while I'm living my success, you'll be using words like 'lucky' to mask your jealousy and regret.

Steve Maraboli

#20. My prescription for better health is to let go of the six things that could be destroying it - anger, regret, blame, resentment, worry, and guilt.

Charles F. Glassman

#21. The only regret I have is that I had to discover I was dying in order to start really living." -Lucio-

Fausto Brizzi

#22. To live with regret is to deny one's life of living.

Gillian Duce

#23. Salvation Creek flows till date, endless tears of motherly love and manly regret.

Adhish Mazumder

#24. To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you revisit it, analyze it, regret it, or sweat it ... it's over. It can hurt you no more.

Mandy Hale

#25. You can have regret from yesterday, fear tomorrow, but peace today by sharing your heart's deepest feelings. A life spent being fearful of showing your soul is a life not worth living.

Shannon L. Alder

#26. He told himself he would pretend nothing was wrong, but he couldn't fool himself. He could forgive himself for having done something wrong, even something so immoral, so reckless. Harder to live with would be what would come next: living with the knowledge of what he'd done, but not letting on.

Erin O'Riordan

#27. This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

#28. Few people get to earn a living at what they like to do and there are hazards in any profession. Football is something I was made for. I gave the game all I could for as long as I could. I guess my only regret was that my career was too short.

Dick Butkus

#29. So many men and women I have wronged, reduced to ghosts and shades. They surround me, but I can never let them know I regret what I have cost them, both the living and the dead.

Laura Lam

#30. The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch the world change and decay ... but no matter the hardship or the pain or the sorrow we suffer, we choose to continue living. Out of sheer habit, I think.

Derek Landy

#31. And having returned from the woods, we remember with regret its restfulness. For all creatures there are in place, hence at rest. In their most strenuous striving, sleeping and waking, dead and living, they are at rest. In the circle of the human we are weary with striving, and are without rest.

Wendell Berry

#32. The problem with living without the person you can't live without is eventually realizing you can live without them.

Charlaine Harris

#33. When regret dominates your past and worry occupies your future, there is no room to live in your present.

Charles F. Glassman

#34. Are you living everyday so that even if the end were to come you'd have to regrets?

Ai Yazawa

#35. It's not that I think it was supposed to happen; you just can't dwell and regret the things that do happen. You've got to keep moving forward, keep pushing through everything that's thrown at you. If you don't, you'll be standing in the same spot forever while the world keeps living around you.

Shelly Crane

#36. Rolling craps is not as hard as living with regret.

Kendall F. Person

#37. Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.

Nora Roberts

#38. My jealousy is a living thing. Shifting, changing, growing. Like my rage and my mother's regret.

Katja Millay

#39. Only those who vacillate have the possibility to regret. Those who know what they want, they have it easy; if everything goes wrong, they know they did not have a choice.

Nina -

#40. I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worried about it. I can't change it. I can't fix it. It is what it is. I'm just living.

Ryan Sheckler

#41. And who the hell was that twiggy bitch?" As soon as it's out of my mouth I regret it. All my life I've had a body worth commenting on and if living in my skin has taught me anything it's that if it's not your body, it's not yours to comment on. Fat. Skinny. Short. Tall. It doesn't matter. But

Julie Murphy

#42. I refuse to suffer the torment of regret that comes with living a "what if" life.

Steve Maraboli

#43. Live to start your stupid ideas, and start to live a life without regret
a life filled with meaning, freedom, happiness, fun, authenticity, and influence.

Richie Norton

#44. Living to give to others, working hard for your destiny
and fighting for your dreams are the battles you will never regret no matter how long it takes.

Michael Hutchison

#45. The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.

Jim Butcher

#46. My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.

Rachel Cusk

#47. I never even heard her voice."
And after a while:
"It is a strange grief."
Softly:
"To die of nostalgia for something you never lived.

Alesandro Bariko

#48. Celebrate the past, don't regret it.

Andrew Critchley

#49. A guy said to a girl he liked; ' I am scared of loving again'
The girl responded ; ' the only thing that scares me is living a life of regret, in never chasing that things that once took my breath away

Nikki Rowe

#50. Most will regret opening up the doors to truth, while others will cower at thought of living an illusion. In the end, does impracticality defeat curiosity?

Lionel Suggs

#51. Most people's greatest regret is not living the life they knew they could live.

Todd Stocker

#52. She'd shown her that living a life of silence and regret wasn't really living at all,

Lana Hart

#53. And Oscar would tell the old man his only regret: that he was living the unremarkable life his parents had always expected from him.

Benjamin Wood

#54. She had called herself a whore. That was a man's word, a shame-word flung at a woman. But she did not seem ashamed. She wielded the word like a sword, slicing away all his preconceptions of who she was. She had earned her living by her sex, and she did not seem to regret it.

Robin Hobb

#55. Let's live to regret this (Martin Riggs [Mel Gibson] to Lorna Cole [Rene Russo] in Lethal Weapon 3)

Martin Riggs

#56. Don't let the regret of the past take the better part of you,because you are a precious child of God.And our God needs you to stop living in the shadows of the past and be whole again with Him.

Rhodalyne Doku

#57. If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.

A.C. Grayling

#58. To regret anything is to regret myself.For if I plucked out these painful pieces, I'd be someone else, living another life.

Ian Ballard

#59. Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.

Jimmy Buffett

#60. Regret-free living isn't found by continuing to do flawed things, then simply "working through" the regret they cause and moving on.

Stephen Arterburn

#61. Enough regret can crush any man, living or dead.

Marlo Berliner

#62. I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#63. I had a blast in the '90s, perhaps too much fun, and maybe I should have worked a lot harder and partied a lot less, but I definitely don't regret the 12 years I spent living out in L.A.

Zach Galligan

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

Anne Frank

#65. The first law of nature is self-preservation. Cut off that which may harm you. But if it is worth preserving, and is meaningful, nourish it and have no regrets. Ultimately, this is true living and love of self ... from within.

T.F. Hodge

#66. The elimination diet:
Remove anger, regret, resentment, guilt, blame, and worry.
Then watch your health, and life, improve.

Charles F. Glassman

#67. In life do what you want. Because
you'll regret it later on when you can no
longer do it

Christian O. Ortiz

#68. Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can
inhabit

Rafael Sabatini

#69. I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.

Sarah Dessen

#70. In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

Henry David Thoreau

#71. Blame doesn't empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don't want to be because you don't want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your own life's happiness.

Shannon L. Alder

#72. He meant it and he didn't. Both. At the same time.
'It doesn't matter if you meant it or not. This is the life you're living. It's not temporary and it's not pretend and there's no do-over...You don't get to regret us.

Nicola Yoon