Regret Quotes

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

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce

Best, Angry, Speak

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

Leave, Behind, Ahead

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Jim Rohn

Pain, Two, Discipline

Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
Aaron Burr

Today, Tomorrow, May

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.
Jimi Hendrix

Hurt, Past, Nothing

I do not regret one moment of my life.
Lillie Langtry

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

Life, Time, Husband

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

Live, Regrets, Sorrow

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.
Katharine Hepburn

Stupid, Sense, Everyone

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

Future, Mistakes, Mind

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.
Queen Latifah

Learning, Human, Made

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
Soren Kierkegaard

Friendly, Two, Advice

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

Often, Looking, Loved

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

Life, Good, Live

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

Pain, Forward, Moment

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

Life, Someone, Else

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

Future, Forward, Mistakes

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

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.
Miguel Angel Ruiz

Change, Best, Different

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

Yourself, Kindness, Give

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
Lucille Ball

Talent, System, Studio

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Laurence J. Peter

Best, Angry, Speak

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.
Drew Barrymore

Life, End, Made

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli

Age, Struggle, Old

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

Great, Past, Place

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.
Nora Ephron

Women, Single, Again

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
Zachary Scott

Find, Older, Grow

People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.
Katy Perry

Life, Future, Nothing

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
Robert Brault

Truth, Today, True

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