Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present. — Federico Fellini
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
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
He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future. — Francisco de Quevedo
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
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
I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets. — Debbie Harry
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
Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself. — Neville Goddard
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future. — Fulton Oursler
If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present. — Les Brown
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
I have no regrets. Regrets are meaningless. You can't change yesterday or tomorrow. You can change only this present moment. — Richey Edwards
Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better. — Kathryn Schulz
Short Past Regrets Quotes
Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future — Maxim Gorky
I regret the things I didn't do, not what I did. — Ingrid Bergman
Past Regrets Image Quotes
I don't regret my past, I just regret the time I've wasted on the wrong people. — Wiz Khalifa
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
Full Of Regrets Quotes
That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it. — Shawn Fanning
I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret. — Edward Albee
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets. — D. H. Lawrence
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. — James Madison
Don't be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams. — Derek Sivers
I peeked up at him one more time, and regretted it. He was glaring down at me again, his black eyes full of revulsion. As I flinched away from him, shrinking against my chair, the phrase if looks could kill suddenly ran through my mind. — Stephenie Meyer
Never regret anything that made you smile.
I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, although I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I do. I regret. — Peter S. Beagle
Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it. — Mark Twain
My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings. — Natalia Ginzburg
Nobody ever left the presidency with less regret, less disappointment, fewer heart burnings, or any general content with the result of his term (in his own heart, I mean) than I do. Full of difficulty and trouble at first, I now find myself on smooth waters and under bright skies. — Rutherford B. Hayes
Do Not Regret The Past Quotes
Do not regret the past. Look to the future. — Soyen Shaku
If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see. — Richard Martin Stern
I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time, that we should always look forward and not backward, and that one of the noblest and best things we can do is strive to live a life free of regrets. — Kathryn Schulz
Don't let the past steal your present. Your past has not defined, deterred or defeated you. It has only strengthened who you are today.
We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past. — Robert Falcon Scott
The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Do not regret too much the choices you have made in the past, Gabriel," she said, aware that she was using his Christian name, but not able to help it. "Only make the right ones in the future. We are ever capable of change and ever capable of being our better selves. — Cassandra Clare
When thinking about life, remember this: no amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of anxiety can change the future.
We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it's a regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it. — Pittacus Lore
Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition. — John Smith
Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets. — Jimmy Buffett
It's not the future that you're afraid of. It's repeating the past that makes you anxious.
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
I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me. — Zachary Taylor
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
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered. — Bill Russell
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
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
Remember: Life is short, break the rules — James Dean
When the past calls, let it go to voicemail. It has nothing new to say.
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
The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee. — Emily Dickinson
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
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
Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret. — Big Pun
When to give grace? I'd rather stand before God knowing I loved others too much rather than regretting that I judged too harshly. — Lysa TerKeurst
No Regrets Quotes
Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted. — Marilyn Monroe
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
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
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
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
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
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
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
Regret And Mistake 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
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
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
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
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
Deep Regret Quotes
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
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
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
Life 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
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
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
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
I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end. — Drew Barrymore
If the goat didn’t jump, she’d have a miserable life. — Polish Proverbs
Live Without Regrets Quotes
My religion is to live and die without regret. — Milarepa
I don’t believe in fear – I live my life without regrets. — Puff Daddy
I want to live in such a way that, if it is only twenty-nine more days or twenty-nine more weeks, or if it is twenty-nine more years or more, I want to faithful with each one of those-that I could go and meet the Lord without regrets, without unfinished business. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past. — Sylvia Plath
The point isn't to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them. — Kathryn Schulz
Live with no excuses and love with no regrets. — Montel Williams
One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret. — Barry Lopez
To truly live without regrets, pay attention. Ask yourself hard questions and see where they lead. Do I really want this job? Is this relationship right for me? If I could do anything, would it be what I'm doing today ... or something different? — Chris Guillebeau
If you want to cry, then cry. Decide by yourself whether you are important or not. Even if other people value you, nobody can do anything for you. Ultimately, it’s your problem so if you live without regrets, then over time I think that your problems would disappear. — Kyo
Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future. — William DeWitt Hyde
I never regret my past... Only time I wasted was on the wrong people. — Tyga
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
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
We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and remove the burden of our sins. His Atonement allows us to leave the past behind and move forward with clean hands, a pure heart, and a determination to do better and especially to become better. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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
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
Perhaps the biggest obstacle is an internal resistance or no to life as it is: we regret the past, worry about the future, and reject our present circumstances. The key to staying in the zone is to let go of this internal resistance and accept the past, trust the future, and embrace the present, just as they are. The key, in other words, is to say yes to life. — William Ury
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
A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men. — Bertrand Russell
When you look to the past, don't sit and dwell on your regrets. Instead, focus on the things you learned from each experience and how they may enrich your future. Use the past not as something to hold you back, but as a method for reaffirming the drive to move forward on your chosen path. — Jack Davenport
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday. — Robert Nathan
If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world. — Mercedes Lackey
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. — Haruki Murakami
Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone. — Jerome K. Jerome
Never think about something wrong you did in the past, always look forward with your head up high; have no regrets. — Jared Leto
We keep ourselves so tied up in regretting the past and fearing the future that we don't have any energy left to figure out who we are and what we want to create right now. — Gay Hendricks
True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable. — Bernard of Clairvaux
Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past. — Norman Borlaug
I just don’t believe in anything from my past. Anything. No memories. No regrets. No people. No trips. Nothing. A lot of our unhappiness comes from comparing things from the past to the present. — Naval Ravikant
I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worried about it. I can't change it. I can't fix it. It is what it is. I'm just living. — Ryan Sheckler
Don't be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you. — Robert Kiyosaki
There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today. — Jonathan Larson
It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant. — Jean Webster
We are all affected by five things. But the most important thing that affects us is our dreams--our ability to see the future. But here's why we don't reach into the future. We're trapped either by regret of the past or the routine of the present. So make sure that the greatest pull on you is the pull of the future. — Jim Rohn
When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator. — Bonnie McFarlane
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
Absolutely. Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future. I questioned a lot about my relationship with your father. People make spontaneous decisions based off of their hearts all the time. There's so much more to relationships than just love. — Colleen Hoover
Diwali means to be in the present, so drop the regrets of the past and the worries of the future and live in the moment. It is a time to forget the bickering and negativities that have happened through the year. It is a time when you throw light on the wisdom you have gained and welcome a new beginning. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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