Monday 1 May 2017

Regret Sayings and Quotes



Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

Jonathan Larson






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





Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

Fulton Oursler





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

Rafael Sabatini






Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been.

Hilary Clinton





Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.    

Katherine Mansfield





Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

Katherine Mansfield





A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.

Charles Goodyear





It's not what your are, it's what you don't become that hurts.

Oscar Levant





Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

Arthur Miller





Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.    

George Halas






One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

Agatha Christie





The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Harriet Beecher Stowe





A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

John Barrymore





When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.    

Alexander Graham Bell





Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.    

Charles Dudley Warner





For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!

John Greenleaf Whittier





Something you need most might be something you turn away from, something you turn away from might be something you regret, and something you regret, in the end, might cost you the one chance you ever had.    

Brian Judge





Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.    

David Grayson





Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.    

Victoria Holt





Only in your imagination can you revise.

Fay Wray





We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regretor disappointment.    

Jim Rohn





It is human nature to want to go back and fix things or change things that weregret.

John Gray





If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.

Mercedes Lackey





We have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging, to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want.    

Joe Vitale





Regret is ... an unavoidable result of any loss, for in loss we lose the tomorrow that we needed to make right our yesterday or today.    

Gerald Lawson Sittser





Often regret is very false and displaced, and imagines the past to be totally other than it was.    

John O'Donohue





Remorse is the poison of life.

Charlotte Bronte





In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

Stefan Zweig




We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.    

Lucy Maud Montgomery






Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Ann Landers





I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted-if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.

John Oliver Hobbes





Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow





Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many-not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.    

Charles Dickens





They say you should not suffer through the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop.

Eva Jessye





Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.    

William O'Rourke





I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.

Rita Mero





Never look back and regret, look back and smile at what you have learned.

Michelle C. Ustaszeski





Regrets only apply when we don't learn from a situation. No sense looking back, look forward with new knowledge and no regret.

Catherine Pulsifer






Consider mistakes nothing more than detours on the way to success. Learn from them, and then go on.    

Cindy Francis





Regrets are the tears of choicesnot made and of good deeds left undone.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie





Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.    

Charles Dudley Warner





When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Maurice Maeterlinck





Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.

Voltaire





Spend time with those you love. One of these days you will say either, "I wish I had," or "I'm glad I did."

Zig Ziglar





It's better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

Jacki Joyner-Kersee





Do not spend your youth, wandering, lost in your field of daydreams; you may wake up-spending the rest of your life-stranded on the path of regretful nightmares.    

Lucas Hunter





Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.    

Mason Cooley





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

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