Best Regret Quotations
2936 Regret quotes by 1844 unique authors
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We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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I try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I work so much. I don't…
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved.…
— Sarah Dessen
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Yeah, I regret we weren't on a higher floor.
— Charles Barkley
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Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.
— Bill Russell
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I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.
— Lauren Bacall
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Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.
— Kevin J. Anderson
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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
— E. W. Howe
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Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Do what you want, if it is something you did regret the next day, sleep in late.
— Wiz Khalifa
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The real proof of spiritual poverty is to patiently endure the loss of worldly goods and without any regret when it pleases our heavenly Father…
— John Calvin
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I think people assume I'm perfect. I'm not. I make mistakes. I do things I regret. I'm stubborn.
— Hilary Duff
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Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.
— Denis Waitley
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To regret deeply is to live afresh.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.
— Germaine Greer
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
— Fay Wray
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Never look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.…
— Samuel Johnson
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When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that…
— Abraham Lincoln
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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
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Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such…
— Michael Faraday
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