150 Mistake And Regret Quotes

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Famous Mistake And Regret Quotes

Regret is a lifestyle disease of equity investing. — Vijay Kedia

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

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. — Bob Dylan

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. — L.M. Montgomery

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

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake. — Confucius

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake. — Confucius

Everyone makes mistakes - mistakes are correctable. - T. B. Joshua

Everyone makes mistakes - mistakes are correctable. — T. B. Joshua

To regret deeply is to live afresh. — Henry David Thoreau

Regret is the most tiresome of companions. — Richard Paul Evans

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. — Robert Fripp

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better. — Kathryn Schulz

The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned. — Albert Einstein

Regret isn't good. Every decision one makes in life is made for a reason or another. Whenever something bad happens, I go, 'This is happening for a reason', or, 'This is going to teach me something'. — Kate Winslet

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. - Bruce Lee

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. — Bruce Lee

Short Mistake And Regret Quotes

  • Anyone can make an error. But that error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. — Timothy Zahn
  • What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. — Dean Smith
  • If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake. — Plato
  • Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. — Jonathan Larson
  • An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. — Orlando A. Battista
  • Remorse is the poison of life. — Charlotte Bronte
  • We all make mistakes, and it's not until we make mistakes that we learn. — Liam Hemsworth
  • Do it or don't do it - you will regret both. — Soren Kierkegaard
  • I regret the things I didn't do, not what I did. — Ingrid Bergman
  • One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved. — Romain Rolland

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Mistake and regret quote Never regret anything that made you smile.
Never regret anything that made you smile.

Mistake And Regret Quotes

Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings. — William Arthur Ward

I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes. — Bill Kaulitz

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path. — Paulo Coelho

Mistake and regret quote A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.
A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

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

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. — Sri Swami Sivananda

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person — Marilyn Manson

Mistake and regret quote Forget the mistake. Remember the lesson.
Forget the mistake. Remember the lesson.

You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul. — Stephenie Meyer

Problems, weaknesses, setbacks, regrets and mistakes teach you if you're willing to learn, or they punish you if you're not. — Ralph Marston

A sign of the death of the heart: lack of sadness about beneficial actions you have missed, and lack of regret about your mistakes. — Ibn Ata Allah

You have to take the good with the bad, smile when you're sad, love what you've got and remember what you had...Always forgive but never forget, learn from your mistakes but never regret, people change, things go wrong, just remember, life goes on. — Unknown Author

Love Regret Quotes

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile. — Mark Twain

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. — Ray Stannard Baker [David Grayson]

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Mistake and regret quote No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress. You're still way ahead of everyone wh
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress. You're still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

Remember: Life is short, break the rules — James Dean

Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog. — Jenny Han

Humans can't live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the past. So it's a veil of tears, man. I don't know anything that's going to benefit me now, except love. I just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap. — Townes Van Zandt

Mistake and regret quote A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.
A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.

The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee. — Emily Dickinson

Anything worth having is hard to keep, I love you like my coffee, so hot and so sweet. So, let's stick it out so we never regret it, I could forgive the past-but I never forget it. — Ghostface Killah

I don't understand this phrase 'I've paid my dues.' We didn't have any money and lived on peanut butter and jelly, and I loved it. I don't regret any of it. We never expected to make it this far, but we worked hard to get here. — Ronnie Van Zant

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets. — William Faulkner

I Regret Quotes

I'm very versatile and there's nothing I really regret in my life. I'm excited with who I am and I'm just going to keep riding the wave. — Rick Ross

I never regret my past... Only time I wasted was on the wrong people. — Tyga

Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted. — Marilyn Monroe

Mistake and regret quote Analyze your mistakes. You've already paid the tuition, you might as well get the lesson.
Analyze your mistakes. You've already paid the tuition, you might as well get the lesson.

I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it. — Lemmy Kilmister

I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven't. - Lucille Ball

I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven't. — Lucille Ball

I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets. - Grace Kelly

I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets. — Grace Kelly

Mistake and regret quote Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying. — Jeff Bezos

I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand? — Peter Tosh

I don't regret my past, I just regret the time I've wasted on the wrong people. - Wiz Khalifa

I don't regret my past, I just regret the time I've wasted on the wrong people. — Wiz Khalifa

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me. — Zachary Taylor

Life Regret Quotes

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets. — Leonardo da Vinci

To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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

Mistake and regret quote Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.

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

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. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

You have this one life. How do you wanna spend it? Apologizing? Regretting? Questioning? Hating yourself? Dieting? Running after people who don't see you? Be brave. Believe in yourself. Do what feels good. Take risks. You have this one life. Make yourself proud. — Cara Delevingne

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. - Nathan Hale

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. — Nathan Hale

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. - Jean Plaidy

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. — Jean Plaidy

Even if death were to fall upon you today like lightning, you must be ready to die without sadness and regret, without any residue of clinging for what is left behind. Remaining in the recognition of the absolute view, you should leave this life like an eagle soaring up into the blue sky. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Never regret anything that makes you smile. — Audrey Hepburn

Deep Regret Quotes

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret. - Nido R Qubein

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret. — Nido R Qubein

Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more! — Alfred Lord Tennyson

That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged. — Edgar Allan Poe

Mistake and regret quote Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.

She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance. — Hermann Hesse

The day will come, however, when they will truly know the Unification Church and me. The day will come when the truth will be known and the message of love will be taught. On that day, their regret will be deep. — Sun Myung Moon

I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him. — Albert Einstein

Mistake and regret quote Fools live to regret their words, the wise regret their silence.
Fools live to regret their words, the wise regret their silence.

It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed. — Henry Addington

My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing. — Conrad Veidt

My mum and dad aren't together, but she plays a massive part in my life. We have deep conversations: I tell her where I need support, where I feel she's lacking, and I support her with whatever she needs. I understand she won't be here forever, and I want no regrets. — Anthony Joshua

We should develop a deep appreciation for all the we have, and not waste it, otherwise we'll die with deep regrets. — Tenzin Palmo

Past Regrets Quotes

Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself. — Neville Goddard

Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future And focus intelligently on the present. This is the best way of ensuring a positive future. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past, then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed. — Jon Foreman

Mistake and regret quote I often regret that I have spoken; Never that I have been silent.
I often regret that I have spoken; Never that I have been silent.

To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you revisit it, analyze it, regret it, or sweat it… it’s over. It can hurt you no more. — Mandy Hale

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

Happiness is that state when nothing is missing. When nothing is missing, your mind shuts down and your mind stops running into the future or running into the past to regret something or to plan something. — Naval Ravikant

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future. — Fulton Oursler

Comfort eating on negativity will make you unhealthy and mental weight is the hardest to lose. For a healthy mind, burn off grudges, regrets about your past, irrational worries about the future, ingratitude and limiting beliefs that are holding your potential hostage. — Steven Bartlett

Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears. — Omar Khayyam

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

No Regret Quotes

Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets. - Jimmy Buffett

Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets. — Jimmy Buffett

If you have confidence in your own words, aspirations, thoughts, and actions and do your very best, you will have no need to regret the outcome of what you do. Fear and trembling are lot of the person who, while stinting effort, hopes that everything will come out precisely as he wants. — Mas Oyama

Live fast, fight hard, no regrets! — John Cena

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets. — Henry A Kissinger

A life totally committed to God has nothing to fear, nothing to lose, nothing to regret. — Pandita Ramabai

Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets. — Clark Moustakas

I find that life is easier when it is just a blur With no details to confuse who or what or where I was So when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure — Conor Oberst

In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions. — Carlos Castaneda

I have no regrets in my life. If not for the mistakes that I made I would not be the man I am today. — Marco Pierre White

If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires, there will be no regrets. — Bessie Coleman

No Regrets Quotes

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything. — William Shatner

I have no regrets and if I had nine lives I would have gladly given them all up for my country. — Melchora Aquino

Each day you're presented with a choice. You can either keep your greatness hidden under a pile of fears, regrets, and excuses, or you can let it out. So the best way to begin unlocking inner greatness is to make a conscious choice to live out the rest of today, with the best you. — Lewis Howes

I have no regrets. I have spent my life, so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to do. At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life. — Lee Kuan Yew

Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul? — Billy Graham

One of the big things that I focus on is not having regrets, just taking every opportunity I have and going for it. — Chris Weidman

Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this. — Ike Turner

But the first thing that we have to do is to say, “I walk towards the tunnel, and I’m on my own, and I’m not afraid. And I have no regrets. — Sayings

No reserves. No retreats. No regrets. — William Whiting Borden

As of today, I have absolutely no regrets. I think I am a mature person who can take things in stride. I'm grateful for people in my past. They helped me get to where I am, wherever that is. But now, I am thinking for myself and sitting in on all the business transactions. — Marilyn Monroe

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More Mistake And Regret Quotes

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night. — Mark Wahlberg

The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven. — Phyllis Mcginley

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused. — Jack Abramoff

I've made mistakes but the beauty of life is that each regret builds character and makes us a better person — Vitor Belfort

Regrets and Mistakes, they're Memories made — Adele

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. — Oscar Wilde

We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future. — Steve Maraboli

Last night I made an insensitive comment which I sincerely regret. It was my mistake and I want to apologize to those who were offended. — Tyler Seguin

To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation. — E. W. Howe

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them. — Nora Ephron

Listen widely to remove your doubts and be careful when speaking about the rest and your mistakes will be few. See much and get rid of what is dangerous and be careful in acting on the rest and your causes for regret will be few. Speaking without fault, acting without causing regret: 'upgrading' consists in this. — Confucius

Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they’re taught in academia, and (2) doesn’t mix in the hard-to-measure stuff that may be more important. That is a mistake I’ve tried all my life to avoid, and I have no regrets for having done that. — Charlie Munger

I have always believed that there is no point in having regrets as you learn far more from mistakes than successes. Embrace a mistake and learn from it; don't regret them. — Richard Branson

I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes? — Sarah Ferguson

I don't think I have any regrets, but I can tell you what I learned from mistakes or failures. I've had plenty of those. I just don't believe in regret, and my economic world is not what I would ever have imagined; I'm financially free. — Tony Robbins

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it — Carlos Castaneda

You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am. — Kim Kardashian

You have to grow. If not you're then living in regret and you're living in the past and you're not progressing forward. And I learned the mistakes that I made and they made me stronger. — Liz Carmouche

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. — Oscar Wilde

A sense of acquiring more mistakes and regrets the older you get, but also deeper growth in learning from these things. The value of experience. — Brooke Waggoner

The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret. — Vernon Howard

I've been taught not to have any regrets. If we were to add up all of the hours spent regretting mistakes and use that time to develop new ideas, who knows how many brilliant new businesses would be created. — Richard Branson

I believed that doing what the other person wanted was love. I did that, and for more than a thousand years I have regretted it. I don't want to repeat the same mistake. — Kim Dong-joo

The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring. [p. 199] — Mary Catherine Bateson

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. — Oscar Wilde

We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period. — David Gill

I think I've made mistakes, but not regrets, in regards to allowing the wrong people in at times, because you never know what someone's intentions are. But I've learnt from that and I now have a very strong core team and know that's what I need in life. As long as you've got people who will push you to be your best, that's all you need. — Harnaam Kaur

I don't do too much looking back and regretting things - not that I haven't made tons of mistakes. But I do think people are in our lives so we can learn lessons and evolve as better human beings. — Idina Menzel

I have shot myself in the foot so many times, I'm crippled. Look, I am not exactly Mr. Great Career Guy. I shoot actually what I think. In a weird way, I used to think that was really messed up. Now I think it's okay. Mistakes, once you don't repeat the same mistakes, have no regrets. Live and learn. We mess up, so what. But know why you messed up and don't make the same mistake. — Gavin Friday

Embrace a mistake and learn from it; don't regret them. — Richard Branson

My father told me "If you choose to let this money destroy your initiative and independence, then it will be a curse to you and my action in giving it to you will have been a mistake. I shall regret very much to have you miss the glorious feeling of accomplishment. Remember that often adversity is a blessing in disguise and is certainly the greatest character builder." — Charles Koch

The only mental games in ski racing is the mental game against yourself. Is the whole goal of life preserving your life as long as you can? No. The goal is to enjoy your life, challenge yourself, to sometimes make stupid decisions-which are sometimes fun and sometimes idiotic and sometimes just a big fat mistake you regret. — Bode Miller

Like most writers, I look back on all of my finished works with utter regret, and the trouble with writing a series of novels is that you have to go back and read them, and make sure that you haven't forgotten anything you've created, and then when you do that, you're faced with your own mistakes on every trick, from the wrong word in places to entirely the wrong incident. — Daniel Handler

I don't regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn't pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it. — Al Pacino

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