Top 100 Quotes About Regrets
#1. I imagine what would happen if everyone turned their regrets into wishes, went around shouting them.
Nina LaCour
#2. What if you can't, Austin? You can't help everyone."
"At least I'll know I tried.
Megan Bostic
#3. Unless you have a life of great importance, regrets are stupid, crumpled-up tickets to a circus that has already left town.
Lorrie Moore
#4. I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family - I'm probably the happiest guy in the world.
Bjorn Borg
#5. Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
#6. You can't live with regrets. It's about the journey
Mariah Carey
#7. Live your life so that you'll have no regrets. No matter how hard, no matter how sad, if something is precious to you, protect it with both arms.
Masashi Kishimoto
#8. The tear-stained letters of my regret will remain forever unread, for I am never going to be strong enough to give them to you.
Courtney M. Privett
#9. He had a sadness in his eyes that Carrie recognised as regret.
Kassandra Cross
#11. Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.
Julia Cameron
#12. I've learned that it's all about choice. You can choose to turn regrets into lessons that change your future.
Ali Harris
#13. When it is mid week, pause and ponder! The very single days we disregard are what become the very years we wished to have used effectively and efficiently. If we disregard today, we shall remember our had I know tomorrow. Time changes therefore think of the changing times.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#15. I have no regrets in my life, but this. That we did not have time. That I did not have time with you, Nesta. I will find you in the next world - the next life. And we will have that time. I promise.
Sarah J. Maas
#16. Conscience is just a polite word for cowardice. No civilised man regrets a pleasure.
Lord Henry Wotton
#17. Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.
Selena Kitt
#18. My head has got regrets, but I haven't.
Frank Bruno
#19. When you attend only to this moment regrets of the past begin to fade.
Karlyle Tomms
#20. Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun ... and you'll have no regrets.
Byrd Baggett
#21. Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.
John Connolly
#22. Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away.
Leif Garrett
#23. It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.
William Thomas
#24. I will do today that which is of today and pay no heed to the tomorrow; nor waste regrets on that which was yesterday.
Walter Russell
#25. Don't look back in life and have regrets. Go for your goal!
Shirley Bourrage
#26. To be a good trader, you need to trade with your eyes open, recognize real trends and turns, and not waste time or energy on regrets and wishful thinking.
Alexander Elder
#29. Ignoring intuition to follow some course in life always has the potential for regrets.
Steven Redhead
#30. Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets.
Kahlil Gibran
#32. Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#33. No blame. No regrets. Gratitude and happiness in every direction.
J.T. Gillett
#34. Tell me, is the rose naked or is that her only dress? Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots? Who hears the regrets of the thieving automobile? Is there anything in the world sadder than a train standing in the rain?
Pablo Neruda
#35. I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.
Paulo Coelho
#37. Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
Andre Gide
#38. The point isn't to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.
Kathryn Schulz
#39. Over the meeting of the lovers I draw a veil. The burst of rapture with which they clasped each other in a wild embrace
the many inquiries
the fond regrets and thrilling hopes
it is out of my power to convey. Let me, therefore, leave them to their happiness.
George Henry Lewes
#40. The worst thing in the world is to have regrets. You will always have a few, but they shouldn't be ones that keep you up at night.
Viola Shipman
#41. I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.
Winona Ryder
#42. Everyone says that you should live like there is no tomorrow, but I think it's even more important to live like there is no yesterday. Your future means so much more than your past.
John A. Ashley
#43. Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire.
Geoff Dyer
#44. I have always lived my life exactly as I wanted. I've tried to please no one but myself ... but I'm entirely content. I can sit back in my old age and not regret a single moment, not wish to change a single thing. It's what I wish for you ... a life with no regrets.
Katharine Hepburn
#45. The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#46. You know what I regret the most? Trinity says, her voice just above a whisper.
I don't answer. All I can think about is how crappy it is that my fourteen-year-old sister already has regrets.
Paula Stokes
#47. Here is my biggest takeaway after 60 years on the planet: There is great value in being fearless. For too much of my life, I was too afraid, too frightened by it all. That fear is one of my biggest regrets.
Diane Keaton
#48. Time softens all griefs, they say, and it is useless to dwell on lives that might have been. We are granted only one life, and one is enough. Whom do such regrets profit? What do they achieve, except to bring us unhappiness?
Peter Hobbs
#49. A missed opportunity repentance only leaves behind
Eve Berlin
#50. You must not procrastinate. Rather, you should make preparations so that even if you did die tonight, you would have no regrets. If you develop an appreciation for the uncertainty and imminence of death, your sense of the importance of using your time wisely will get stronger and stronger.
Dalai Lama
#51. NOEL: You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.
Hillary DePiano
#52. Life can be cut short in an instant, so make sure to live with no regrets and love with all your heart.
Micalea Smeltzer
#53. children spend their time for they think they have more time; adults cry over their time for they see they have less time
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#54. If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.
Iyanla Vanzant
#55. If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.
Thomas Sowell
#56. Promises bind our kind as surely as iron chains or ropes of human hair. The fae never swear by anything we don't believe in. We don't ask for thanks and we don't offer them; no promises, no regrets, no chains. No lies.
Seanan McGuire
#57. I won't say anything that I will regret tomorrow
Wish
#58. Elizabeth had followed her heart, and no one ever regrets that.
Anna Godbersen
#59. I have no regrets. I have not one single regret. I was born with a wonderful DNA where I felt that my life was not a race against someone else or another artist. It was probably internal.
Andy Kim
#60. No REGRETS. Just LESSONS learned, BLESSINGS recognized and HUMOR found.
Tanya Masse
#61. Monitor and control every passing day so as to live without regrets
Sunday Adelaja
#62. A sense of acquiring more mistakes and regrets the older you get, but also deeper growth in learning from these things. The value of experience.
Brooke Waggoner
#63. But the first thing that we have to do is to say, I walk towards the tunnel, and I'm on my own, and I'm not afraid. And I have no regrets.
Jonathan Bowden
#65. But then no artist expects grace from the vulgar mind, or style from the suburban intellect. Vulgarity and stupidity are two very vivid facts in modern life. One regrets them, naturally. But there they are.
Oscar Wilde
#66. Pick the axe; chop off the anger; burn the pieces and bury the ashes. Anger kills before it is noticed. It travels faster to the destination to destroy long before conscience arrives to regret it!
Israelmore Ayivor
#67. The best advice I ever received? Simple: Have no regrets.
Richard Branson
#68. Address things now that could otherwise turn into regrets.
Jane Fonda
#69. Maybe it's impossible to live life without any regrets. Even when you know the future... you'll still mess up." (p.163)
Ichigo Takano
#70. She did have regrets. Thousands of them, and the weight was too heavy for her to keep moving. She was a ship that could not sail, for its anchor - its thousands of anchors - locked it to the sea floor.
Susan Dennard
#71. I have no regrets and if I had nine lives I would have gladly given them all up for my country.
Melchora Aquino
#72. I have no regrets. I don't believe in looking back. What I am proudest of? Working really hard ... and achieving as much as I could.
Elena Kagan
#73. May you allow fear to soften and melt away.
May you release all regrets and resentments.
Charlene Costanzo
#74. Life was about taking chances. Going for what you wanted so that you didn't get old and have pages of regrets. Sometimes you won and sometimes you lost, as much as I hated it.
Mariana Zapata
#75. You can't reach for the stars when you're tied to yesterdays regrets
Steven Aitchison
#76. But how can one regret what, to the mind, has never existed? Even loss is an inaccurate description, for what loss is without the awareness of losing?
Nicole Krauss
#77. Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.
Bernard Cornwell
#78. Dark, cool, musty, smoky, where light fell funny and everyone looked like someone you knew or wanted to know. Or, more likely, wanted to forget.
David Baldacci
#79. Regrets won't change anything. Don't Reject yourself. Just Refrain from what you did badly; repent and move on.
Israelmore Ayivor
#80. Crazy was better than in love. You could walk away from crazy without regrets.
Starr Ambrose
#81. She clung to him, she poured out her terrors, her unavailing regrets, and the far echoes turned them all to jeering laughter.
Mark Twain
#82. Morality and honor are not to be confused. The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
H.L. Mencken
#83. With every decision you make in your life, you're going to have some regrets about the way it goes. You just have to chose which set of regrets you can live with the best, and try to minimize the amount of regrets you have.
John Rzeznik
#84. MOTHER TIME: The past is always with us, dear, for better or worse. It is what it is and you can't change it. All you can do is learn how to live with it in the present.
Hillary DePiano
#85. I don't have a lot of regrets about the way I've lived my life. Not because I haven't made mistakes - I've made plenty. But what's the point of regret? You can't undo the past.
Cindy Crawford
#86. Allow me to let go, let it hurt if it has
to, let me regret if i have to.
Aslong as my heart feels alive once
again that's all i strive for.
Morgan Chabane
#88. I don't have any regrets about not having kids. I've just never had those maternal feelings. I am a nurturer by nature, but I nurture adults: my friends, the people I work with. I don't want to nurture children.
Barbara Windsor
#89. Regrets will eat a man up. My pa told me that. Said you should always try to make your peace when you can, 'cause no man knows what the Lord has in store for us tomorrow.
R.S. Belcher
#90. No excuses will lead to no regrets which will give you no limits to your potential.
James Gordon
#91. Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.
Taylor Swift
#92. [When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advantages squandered.
Anthony Bourdain
#93. What's my greatest fear? I don't know; I have lots of fears. Regret, I don't want to have any regrets; that makes me scared.
Richard Coyle
#94. Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Henry David Thoreau
#95. I would alter nothing of the journey made for it is in this road travelled that the sweetest of lessons are learnt.
Truth Devour
#96. I will tell you this my darlings, the very worst regrets are the things you couldn't have handled any other way.
Jamie Mason
#97. Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
Emile Zola
#99. I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#100. The only regret we should have is allowing regret to hold us back from taking action now.
Charles F. Glassman
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