40 Regret quotes and regrets inspirational sayings

40 Regret quotes and regrets inspirational sayings. Here are the best regret quotes, mistake quotes, learning from past experiences and short inspirational quotes that you can share with your friends, family, and loved ones.

1. One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself. - Shannon L. Alder

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 its 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. In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only. - Lisa See

28. I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it. - Kathy Griffin

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. A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth. - Hermann Hesse

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. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been! - John Greenleaf Whittier

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