Life Regret Quotes

• It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Epigraph to Eric Lax Woody Allen and his Comedy (1975)

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

  Arthur Miller

  Life, Regret, Mistake

  FaceBook post by Arthur Miller from May 08, 2014

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• Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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

  Katherine Mansfield

  Regret, Looks, Life Moves On

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• Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

  Jonathan Larson

  Life, Basketball, Regret

  "Rent". Musical by Jonathan Larson, 1996.

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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

  Nathan Hale

  Inspirational, Life, Country

  Before being executed as a spy by the British, 22 September 1776, in Henry Phelps Johnston 'Nathan Hale, 1776' (1914) ch. 7.

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• People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

  Bob Dylan

  Life, Break Up, Music

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

  Eric Mangini

  Inspirational, Strength, Motivational Sports

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  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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

  John Barrymore

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.

  Brittany Finamore

  Motivational, Regret, Heart

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

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Relationship, Happiness, Sympathy

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.58

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

  Mercedes Lackey

  Love, Regret, Sadness

  Mercedes Lackey (2004). “Exile's Valor”, p.106, Penguin

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• 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

  Life, Regret, Years

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• There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

  Marcel Proust

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.775, Wordsworth Editions

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• Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

  Mary McCarthy

  Regret, Thinking, Action

  Mary McCarthy (2002). “A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays”, New York Review of Books

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• 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

  Regret, Views, Light

  Robert E. Lee, Ben Wynne (2004). “Recollections and Letters”, p.221, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Regret

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Trust, Being Yourself

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Regret, Food, Wine

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• Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Forgiveness, Problems Love, New Day

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• The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

  Michael Curtiz

  Regret, Short Life, Life Is Too Short

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