Regret Quotes

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  • “As far as Im concerned, I regret nothing”— Miyamoto Musashi
  • “My religion is to live and die without regret” – Milarepa
  • “Discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons”— Jim Rohn
  • “In time of test, family is best” – Burmese Proverb
  • “What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose” – Henry Ward Beecher
  • “Never regret If it’s good, it’s wonderful If it’s bad, it’s experience” – Victoria Holt
  • “Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it”-George Halas
  • If only Those must be the two saddest words in the world”-Mercedes Lackey
  • “You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons” – Nina LaCour
  • “Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets” – Arthur Miller
  • “Only one infinite deception is possible: self-deception” – Søren Kierkegaard
  • “It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret” – Jackie Joyner Kersee
  • “Never regret anything that makes you smile”— Audrey Hepburn
  • “Live fast, fight hard, no regrets!”— John Cena
  • “You can’t regret the life you didn’t lead” – Junot Díaz
  • “Never despair, keep pushing on!” – Sir Thomas Lipton
  • “I can’t take it back I can’t take anything back So I don’t regret it”-Allen Iverson
  • “A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams”-John Barrymore
  • “My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine” – Ernest Hemingway
  • “There are no regrets in life, just lessons”— Jennifer Aniston
  • “Do not regret what you have done”— Miyamoto Musashi
  • “It takes a certain lack of imagination to have an entirely clean conscience” – Alain de Botton
  • “You get one life Do it all Don’t leave anything in reserve” – Shane Parrish
  • “Looking back, I have this to regret that too often when I loved, I did not say so” – David Grayson
  • “Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it” – Ann Brashares
  • “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges Life is too short to be unhappy” – Roy T Bennett
  • “If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret”-Jim Carrey
  • “Regret is a form of punishment itself”— Nouman Ali Khan
  • “Regret doesn’t remind us that we did badly It reminds us that we know we can do better” – Kathryn Schulz
  • “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done” – Lucille Ball
  • “Love is never lost If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart” – Washington Irvin
  • “If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment”– Henry David Thoreau
  • “It’s better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret” – Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • “Regrets are illuminations come too late”— Joseph Campbell
  • “Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit”-Rafael Sabatini
  • “The one thing I learned is to just give everything a shot You don’t want to live in regret” – Chloe Kim
  • “Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven’t done” – Chad Michael Murray
  • “I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not” – Lucille Ball
  • “Stop fretting about past decisions They have provided valuable wisdom Go forward without fear or regret” – Paul Martens
  • “Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future”-Fulton Oursler
  • “The longer our trail of regrets, the more we tend to value the importance of making wise decisions” – Bob Santos
  • “You can’t win an argument You can’t because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it” – Dale Carnegie
  • “The past could always be annihilated Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that But the future was inevitable” – Oscar Wilde
  • “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother” – Henry Ward Beecher
  • “It’s not what your are, it’s what you don’t become that hurts”-Oscar Levant
  • “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself” – Shannon L Alder
  • “We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment”― Jim Rohn
  • “The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me But I can’t take back the things I never did” – Jonathan Safran Foer
  • “For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: ‘It might have been!”-John Greenleaf Whittier
  • “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
  • “My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse” – Jodi Picoult
  • “You should never regret anything in life If it’s good, it’s wonderful If it’s bad, it’s experience” – Victoria Holt