Charlotte Bronte
“Remorse is the poison of life.”
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Billy Wilder
“Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.”
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Jonathan Larson
“Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.”
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John Barrymore
“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.”
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Jonathan Larson
“Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.”
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Mercedes Lackey
“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”
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Grenville Kleiser
“A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference.”
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Rafael Sabatini
“Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.”
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Lawrence J Peter
“Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”
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Jackie Joyner-Kersee
“It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.”
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Lucille Ball
“I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.”
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Nathan Hale
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
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Arthur Miller
“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”
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John Greenleaf Whittier
“Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these... it might have been.”
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Arthur Miller
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”
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Author Unknown
“Regret is insight that comes a day too late”
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Bob Dylan
“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.”
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Yiddish Proverb
“A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.”
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David Grayson
“Looking back, I have this to regret...that too often when I loved, I did not say so.”
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Charles Dickens
“Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.”
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Harriet Doerr
“You cannot just waste time. Otherwise you'll die to regret it.”
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Chinese Proverb
“To regret the past is to forfeit the future.”
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D. H. Lawrence
“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.”
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Victoria Holt
“Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.”
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Mercedes Lackey
“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”
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Author Unknown
“Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it.”
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Lucy Larcom
“Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.”
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Quevedo
“He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.”
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
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Jane Adams
“Regret, which is guilt without the neurosis, enables us ... to move forward instead of back.”
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Fulton Oursler
“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.”
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Chinese Proverb
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."
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Edgar Watson Howe
“When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.”
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Napoleon Bonaparte
“The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.”
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Dante Alighieri
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.”
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Cameron Diaz
“Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.”
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Katherine Mansfield
"Make it a rule in life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing in."
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Author Unknown
“Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets.”
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J P Getty
“I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.”
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Buddha
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
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Alexander Graham Bell
"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."
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Jim Rohn
“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.”
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Sydney J. Harris
“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”
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Stefan Zweig
“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.”
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Mary McCarthy
“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.”
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Henry Louis Menchen
“The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.”
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Author Unknown
“If we fill our hours with regrets over the failures of yesterday, and with worries over the problems of tomorrow, we have no today in which to be thankful”
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Katharine Hepburn
“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.”
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Author Unknown
“If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.
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Germaine Greer
“The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.”
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Mary Matalin
“You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger.”
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H. Jackson Brown, Jr.:
"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."
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John Gray
“It is human nature to want to go back and fix things or change things that we regret.”
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Norman Macdonald
“The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.”
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Author Unknown
“Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions - "If I had my life to live over again, I'd do it all the same”
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Arthur Brisbane
“Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.”
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Ida Scott Taylor
“Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today's duties put off until tomorrow give us a double burden to bear; the best way is to do them in their proper time.”
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Brittany Renée
“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.”
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William O’Rourke
“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.”
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Ida Scott Taylor
“Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today's duties put off until tomorrow give us a double burden to bear; the best way is to do them in their proper time.”
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Brittany Renée
“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.”
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Rebecca Beard
“We should have no regrets…The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.”
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Aldous Huxley
“If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”
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Marcel Proust
“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.”
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Barbara Sher
“People have to face regrets. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.”
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Jonathan Carroll
“It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart”
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Author Unknown
“Sometimes, struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were to go through our life without any obstacles, we would be crippled. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. Give every opportunity a chance, leave no room for regrets.”
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Louisa May Alcott
“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”
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Max W. Swenson
“The object of the study was to assess the feelings of those who were about to die. Almost universally the patients agreed that the inevitability of death was not the issue. The real issue was how to live a full life. They all seemed to agree that the problem of dying is the regret of not having lived.”
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Elearnor Roosevelt
“All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley:
“We pledge our loyalty; we affirm our determination to be of good courage; we declare, sometimes even publicly, that come what may we will do the right thing, that we will stand for the right cause, that we will be true to ourselves and to others. Then the pressures begin to build. Sometimes these are social pressures. Sometimes they are personal appetites. Sometimes they are false ambitions. There is a weakening of the will. There is a softening of discipline. There is capitulation. And then there is remorse, self-accusation, and bitter tears of regret.”
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