65 Regret quotes that will help you realize what matters. Here are the best regret quotes to read from famous people that will surely inspire you. Everyone has regrets, which includes your mistakes and decisions from the past that you regret doing. Don't live your life of regret. Move forward, and learn from the mistakes of yesterday. May these life regret quotes help you acquire more ideas about it and give you thoughts on handling them. Share these no regrets quotes with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.
1. The one thing I learned is to just give everything a shot. You don't want to live in regret. - Chloe Kim
2. Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done. - Chad Michael Murray
3. There are two kinds of guilt: the kind that drowns you until you’re useless, and the kind that fires your soul to purpose. - Sabaa Tahir
4. Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous? - Ali Shaw
5. Regret is mostly caused by not having done anything. - Charles Bukowski
6. The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. - Oscar Wilde
7. Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm, I'm not going to waste my time crying. Because I am way too fabulous for that. - Jude Watson
8. Living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse. - Jodi Picoult
9. You can't regret the life you didn't lead. - Junot Díaz
10. Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, 'It might have been. - Kurt Vonnegut
11. Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren't accompanied by regret. - Laura Kasischke
12. If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow? - José Saramago
13. 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
14. There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth. - Charles Dickens
15. Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. - Arthur Miller
16. Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And it's all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it. That's when you get into trouble. - Sarah Dessen
17. The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did. - Jonathan Safran Foer
18. 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. - Katherine Mansfield
19. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other path, no other way, no day but today. - Jonathan Larson
20. 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. - Soren Kierkegaard
21. I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don't seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face. So I do nothing. - Gayle Forman
22. 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. - Colleen Hoover
23. Everybody was sorry. Sorry was easy. Sorry was for suckers. - Gretchen McNeil
24. If you had to relive your life exactly as it was, same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy, would you want to? Was it worth it? - Gavin Extence
25. Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity. - Ted Chiang
26. If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world. - Mercedes Lackey
27. There are moments in your life where you realize you could do nothing, but if you do, you'll probably regret it forever. - Milana Vayntrub
28. I try to face things without regret, or make sure that I'm happy with things and leave nothing unsaid if I can. - Hozier
29. Sensitive people either love deeply or they regret deeply. There really is no middle ground because they live in passionate extremes. - Shannon L. Alder
30. 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
31. When we grow old, there can only be one regret, not to have given enough of ourselves. - Eleonora Duse
32. No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future. - Umar ibn Al-Khattab
33. There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken. - Juan Gabriel Vásquez
34. I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself. - Lillian Hellman
35. The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say 'Yesterday I was happy, Today I am not. - E.M. Forster
36. Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty. - Alphonse Karr
37. Sometimes I wish life was written pencil so we could erase it and write it all over again. - Thisuri Wanniarachchi
38. We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it. - Lois McMaster Bujold
39. 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
40. If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make. - Iyanla Vanzant
41. Regret is an unavoidable result of any loss, for in loss we lose the tomorrow that we needed to make right our yesterday or today. - Gerald Lawson Sittser
42. The longer our trail of regrets, the more we tend to value the importance of making wise decisions. - Bob Santos
43. We have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging, to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want. - Joe Vitale
44. We cannot always change what has happened to us, but we can change how we react and how we live in the future. Living with no regrets is living successfully. - Dr. Ellen Taricani
45. Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. - Victoria Holt
46. Most of us have had regrets and recognize how they can hold us back or keep us stuck in life and relationships. Overcoming the past is important for anyone desiring to live beyond mistakes and the problems they make. - Ron Neff
47. Something you need most might be something you turn away from, something you turn away from might be something you regret, and something you regret, in the end, might cost you the one chance you ever had. - Brian Judge
48. We all make mistakes in life that's true. Some little, some big, some simple and some more complex. Some mistakes we regret forever. - Rashard Royster
49. Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. - Charles Dudley Warner
50. If we fill our hours with regrets over the failures of yesterday, we have no today in which to be thankful. - Anonymous
51. I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. - Lucille Ball
52. Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart. - Basil Rathbone
53. I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences. I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else. - Queen Latifah
54. A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. - Oliver Goldsmith
55. One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself. - Shannon L. Alder
56. When something goes wrong in your life, it doesn't finish you, and you should become braver, knowing that you've got to go for things in life and don't regret because you didn't try to be as good as you might be. - Gareth Southgate
57. Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better. - Kathryn Schulz
58. Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow. - L. Ron Hubbard
59. I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end. - Drew Barrymore
60. I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past. - Marlon Brando
61. It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret. - Jackie Joyner Kersee
62. Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I'm content. - William Shatner
63. We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow. - Fulton Oursler
64. 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
65. You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward. - Aubrey O'Day
1. The one thing I learned is to just give everything a shot. You don't want to live in regret. - Chloe Kim
2. Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done. - Chad Michael Murray
3. There are two kinds of guilt: the kind that drowns you until you’re useless, and the kind that fires your soul to purpose. - Sabaa Tahir
4. Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous? - Ali Shaw
5. Regret is mostly caused by not having done anything. - Charles Bukowski
6. The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. - Oscar Wilde
7. Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm, I'm not going to waste my time crying. Because I am way too fabulous for that. - Jude Watson
8. Living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse. - Jodi Picoult
9. You can't regret the life you didn't lead. - Junot Díaz
10. Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, 'It might have been. - Kurt Vonnegut
11. Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren't accompanied by regret. - Laura Kasischke
12. If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow? - José Saramago
13. 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
14. There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth. - Charles Dickens
15. Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. - Arthur Miller
16. Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And it's all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it. That's when you get into trouble. - Sarah Dessen
17. The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did. - Jonathan Safran Foer
18. 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. - Katherine Mansfield
19. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other path, no other way, no day but today. - Jonathan Larson
20. 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. - Soren Kierkegaard
21. I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don't seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face. So I do nothing. - Gayle Forman
22. 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. - Colleen Hoover
23. Everybody was sorry. Sorry was easy. Sorry was for suckers. - Gretchen McNeil
24. If you had to relive your life exactly as it was, same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy, would you want to? Was it worth it? - Gavin Extence
25. Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity. - Ted Chiang
26. If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world. - Mercedes Lackey
27. There are moments in your life where you realize you could do nothing, but if you do, you'll probably regret it forever. - Milana Vayntrub
28. I try to face things without regret, or make sure that I'm happy with things and leave nothing unsaid if I can. - Hozier
29. Sensitive people either love deeply or they regret deeply. There really is no middle ground because they live in passionate extremes. - Shannon L. Alder
30. 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
31. When we grow old, there can only be one regret, not to have given enough of ourselves. - Eleonora Duse
32. No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future. - Umar ibn Al-Khattab
33. There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken. - Juan Gabriel Vásquez
34. I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself. - Lillian Hellman
35. The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say 'Yesterday I was happy, Today I am not. - E.M. Forster
36. Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty. - Alphonse Karr
37. Sometimes I wish life was written pencil so we could erase it and write it all over again. - Thisuri Wanniarachchi
38. We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it. - Lois McMaster Bujold
39. 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
40. If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make. - Iyanla Vanzant
41. Regret is an unavoidable result of any loss, for in loss we lose the tomorrow that we needed to make right our yesterday or today. - Gerald Lawson Sittser
42. The longer our trail of regrets, the more we tend to value the importance of making wise decisions. - Bob Santos
43. We have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging, to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want. - Joe Vitale
44. We cannot always change what has happened to us, but we can change how we react and how we live in the future. Living with no regrets is living successfully. - Dr. Ellen Taricani
45. Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. - Victoria Holt
46. Most of us have had regrets and recognize how they can hold us back or keep us stuck in life and relationships. Overcoming the past is important for anyone desiring to live beyond mistakes and the problems they make. - Ron Neff
47. Something you need most might be something you turn away from, something you turn away from might be something you regret, and something you regret, in the end, might cost you the one chance you ever had. - Brian Judge
48. We all make mistakes in life that's true. Some little, some big, some simple and some more complex. Some mistakes we regret forever. - Rashard Royster
49. Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. - Charles Dudley Warner
50. If we fill our hours with regrets over the failures of yesterday, we have no today in which to be thankful. - Anonymous
51. I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. - Lucille Ball
52. Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart. - Basil Rathbone
53. I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences. I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else. - Queen Latifah
54. A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. - Oliver Goldsmith
55. One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself. - Shannon L. Alder
56. When something goes wrong in your life, it doesn't finish you, and you should become braver, knowing that you've got to go for things in life and don't regret because you didn't try to be as good as you might be. - Gareth Southgate
57. Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better. - Kathryn Schulz
58. Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow. - L. Ron Hubbard
59. I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end. - Drew Barrymore
60. I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past. - Marlon Brando
61. It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret. - Jackie Joyner Kersee
62. Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I'm content. - William Shatner
63. We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow. - Fulton Oursler
64. 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
65. You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward. - Aubrey O'Day
65 Regret quotes that will help you realize what matters
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