Regret Quotes To Embrace The Lessons of Life And Move On


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Regret is a part of life, but it doesn’t have to hold you back. The right words can offer clarity, healing, and a fresh perspective. These regret quotes remind you to learn, grow, and move forward. Let them inspire you to embrace the past while creating a better future.

Regret's kind of like a fool's game.

Willam Belli

Never regret what you don‘t write.  Abraham Lincoln

Never regret what you don't write.

Abraham Lincoln

I'm not trying to regret nothing in my career.

Young Dolph

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.

Kathryn Schulz

I live a life that I never regret any decision.

Ricky Rubio

Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that.

Britt Ekland

I think people assume I'm perfect. I'm not. I make mistakes. I do things I regret. I'm stubborn.

Hilary Duff

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

Ray Stannard Baker

The one thing I learned is to just give everything a shot. You don't want to live in regret.

Chloe Kim

I smoked for almost 10 years. I really regret that. Thankfully, I came out on the other side. I hope my lungs are repairing themselves now.

Michelle Monaghan

To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible, that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present.

David Whyte

In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.  John C. Calhoun

In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.

John C. Calhoun

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.

Fulton Oursler

Regret is a form of punishment itself.

Nouman Ali Khan

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

Lucille Ball

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

Nido R. Qubein

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.

L. Ron Hubbard

If you aren't at the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Jim Carrey

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

Nathan Hale

Life is about choices. Some we regret, some we're proud of.

Graham Brown

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Don't waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.

Roy T. Bennett

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

Speak when you are angry — and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

I‘d rather regret doing something than not doing something.  James Hetfield

I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.

James Hetfield

Do what you love and go after your dreams. Don't regret it. Don't hesitate.

Jackson Wang

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

C. S. Lewis

I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.

Gavrilo Princip

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Publilius Syrus

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Woody Allen

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

Zachary Taylor

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Never regret anything you have done with sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.

Basil Rathbone

I never regret being honest.

Simon Amstell

I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.

Augusto Pinochet

Do not brood over past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret, and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Swami Sivananda

The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.

Yoko Ono

One can never regret the decisions made at the time, because that can only lead to bitterness and sadness.

David Nutter

Ask an older person you respect to tell you their greatest regret.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I am what I am. I don‘t regret anything.  Kamaru Usman

I am what I am. I don't regret anything.

Kamaru Usman

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore, a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Oliver Goldsmith

I do not regret one moment of my life.

Lillie Langtry

I talk about past relationships, all of which I would never regret, as they played huge parts in who I am today.

Gigi Gorgeous

Why did you do that?' But in the end, I can't regret them because I met amazing people.

Robin Williams

I can't think of anything I regret.

Eugenie Clark

Saints are ordinary people who do what they do for the love of Jesus, say what they must say without fear, love their neighbor even when they are cursed by him, and live without regret over yesterday or fear of tomorrow.

Mother Angelica

It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save:

Chris Kyle

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