Regret Quotes - Page 3

• Thou wilt lament
  Hereafter, when the evil shall be done
  And shall admit no cure.

  Homer

  Evil, Done, Cures

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.231

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• Looking back, I've never had one regret.

  Ted Lindsay

  Looking Back

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• 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

  Reflection, Emotional, Events

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• The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

  Ogden Nash

  Morning, Sleep, Night

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• When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.

  Criss Jami

  Motivational, Thinking, Definitions

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.82, Criss Jami

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• I don't have any regrets.

  Brett Ratner

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• Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

  George Sand

  Kindness, Giving, Treasure

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

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• I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

  Henry James

  Birthday, Thinking, Vision

  Letter to Hugh Walpole, 21 Aug. 1913

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

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Apology, Long, Might

  Charles Dudley Warner “The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner”, Library of Alexandria

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• Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

  George Halas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• 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

  Moving On, Forgiveness, Sorrow

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

  Sean Covey

  Motivational, Positive, Inspiring

  Sean Covey (2011). “The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Love, Positive, Heartbreak

  David Grayson, Ray Stannard Baker (1942). “Under My Elm: Country Discoveries and Reflections”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran

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• I have no regrets because I know I did my best - all I could do.

  Midori Ito

  Motivational, Sports, Knows

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Food, Wine, Champagne Drinking

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• My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Humor, Denver

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• You won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Women, He Man, Men

  Bernard Cornwell (1997). “The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur”, p.120, Macmillan

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• One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.

  Hafez

  Death, Spiritual, Wisdom

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

  Publilius Syrus

  Silence, Silent, Has Beens

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

  Jim Carrey

  Karma, Pain, Life Lesson

  "Carrey: 'Life Is Too Beautiful'". www.cbsnews.com. November 18, 2004.

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• I don't have a lot of regrets in my life.

  Cathy Freeman

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

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• The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Moving On, Conquest, Permanent

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• Regrets over the past should chasten the future.

  James Ellis

  Past, Should, Over The Past

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• To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

  Bodhidharma

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Charity

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.49, Macmillan

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• Regret for wasted time is more wasted time

  Mason Cooley

  Time, Wasted Life, Wasting Time

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