Regret Quotes

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.
L. Ron Hubbard

The Creation Of Human Ability (1954).

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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

alexander graham bell

— Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)

Tags: opportunity, Breaking Up, us, opened, which, See, not, do, closed

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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.

tallulah bankhead

— Tallulah Bankhead, Tallulah: My Autobiography. University Press of Mississippi; illustrated edition edition (July 7, 2004).

Tags: thing, regret, past, length, live, life, again, mistakes, sooner

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To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.

adolf eichmann

— While awaiting trial in Israel, as quoted in LIFE magazine (5 December 1960).

Tags: sum, regret, nothing

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Regret...when it comes to you, I have oceans of it.


— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns; Jalil's letter

Tags: you, oceans

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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

— Either/Or

Tags: see, perfectly, there, two, possible, situations, one, can, honest

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I have no regrets. If you regret things, you're sort of stepping backwards. I'm a believer in going forwards.

kate winslet

— The Clive James Show (1998).

Tags: regrets, you, regret, things, stepping, backwards, believer, going, forwards

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Whoever sows good shall harvest happiness, and whoever sows evil shall harvest regret.


— Hasan al-Askari, Majlisi, Bih?rul Anw?r, vol.78, p.338.

Tags: sows, good, harvest, evil, regret

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I knew that what I had felt was envy or regret, not for something lost but for something never achieved.

p. d. james

— Dr. Theodore Faron character in The Children of Men.

Tags: knew, what, envy, regret, something, lost, never, achieved

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I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to become a writer can afford to indulge in it. You can't get it into shape; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.

katherine mansfield

— "Je ne parle pas français," from Bliss and Other Stories (1920).

Tags: rule, life, never, regret, look, appalling, waste, energy, one

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It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly.

mary renault

— Mary Renault, The Persian Boy.

Tags: better, believe, men, rashly, regret, meanly

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

publilius syrus

— Publilius Syrus, Sententiae, Maxim 1070.

Tags: often, regretted, speech, never, silence

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Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion, which impell'd the steel.

lord byron

— Lord Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, line 823.

Tags: Keen, pangs, keener, far, feel, nursed, pinion, impell'd, steel

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I could have better spar'd a better man.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (c. 1597), Act V, scene 4, line 104.

Tags: better, spar'd, man

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It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Tags: better, look, ahead, prepare, regret

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Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

marilyn monroe

Tags: optimism, fear

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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

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We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

marilyn monroe

— American actress and model (1926 - 1962)

Tags: fear, growing old, Life

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

henry kissinger

— American statesman

Tags: apologies, regrets, end, beginning, you, Yourself, everything, accept

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Realizing that if she quit now, she would always wonder what would have happened. And she didn't think she could live with that.

Nicholas Sparks

— The Notebook (1996)

Tags: The Notebook, realizing, she, quit, now, would, always, wonder, what

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