Regret Quotes

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)
Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude. View quote
Anne Frank
Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
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. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow? View quote
José Saramago
If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret. View quote
Jim Carrey
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. View quote
Nathan Hale
Regret for the things we have done will be tempered by time. It is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me. View quote
Zachary Taylor
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor. (William Hazlitt)
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. View quote
Lucille Ball
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. View quote
Woody Allen
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. View quote
Tallulah Bankhead
My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building. View quote
Ann Coulter
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. View quote
Mary McCarthy
A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky. View quote
Yoshida Kenkō
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death. View quote
Heinrich Heine
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. View quote
Jim Rohn
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. (Søren Kierkegaard)
Happiness is pleasure without regret. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner