Life Regret Quotes

Most people’s major life regrets are not about the things they’ve done, but about the things they’ve not done, the goals they never reached, the type of lover or friend or parent they wished they’d been but know they failed to be.

My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.

My mantra has always been to have zero regrets in life. Everything I do at one speed, I go all-out.

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

I don't want things that I regret in life, and things that I have not done - and I don't want to at 80 years wake up, and tell myself: 'Oh I was on top of my shape and skills and I didn't do it.'

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.

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

I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

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.

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

You will have fewer regrets in life if you start focusing and taking responsiblity for where you are and where you want to be.

One's only real regret in life is the failure to act.

Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments.

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.

Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

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.

My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.

My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world.

Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine.

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.

You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

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.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

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

I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter.

Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

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