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
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future. -Fulton Oursler
Speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret. -Laurence J. Peter
I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences… I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else. -Queen Latifah
Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. ‘Black Rain’ was very much about choices. The message we are what we chose to be. -Graham Brown
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
My one regret in life is that I’m not someone else. -Woody Allen
It’s better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret. -Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it come to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh. -Henry David Thoreau
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
A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps. -Charles Goodyear
Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. -Don Miguel Ruiz
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. -Barbara Bush
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. -Jim Rohn
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores? -George Sand
You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward. -Aubrey O’Day
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
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. -Charles Dudley Warner
My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically. -Stephen Hawking
I used to worry a lot. I still worry a lot, but not about the things that I used to worry about because my younger self, I didn’t regret anything that I ever did… I was happy, and I was free, and I was living it up. -Cardi B
The past is a great place and I don’t want to erase it or to regret it, but I don’t want to be its prisoner either. -Mick Jagger
Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret. -Robert E. Lee
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. -Chief Seattle