Quotes About Regret

He gave me this advice one time: Never marry your childhood sweetheart, he said; the reasons that make you choose her will all turn into reasons why you should have rejected her.

I have been very miserable since - miserable not for an hour but for months on end - but I can still feel that hour's misery in its perfect desolation, if I am fool enough to call it up in my mind.

I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.

Sylvi wished she could gouge out the look in Dorogin's stony eyes, and change the course of history. She wished Fthoom had been eaten by a sea monster.

So I said I'd had a headache all day (which was true) and on second thought I would go home to bed, and I was sorry. I was out the door again not five minutes after I'd gone in. Mel

Every event has a purpose and every setback its lesson. I have realized that failure, whether of the personal, professional or even spiritual kind, is essential to personal expansion. It brings inner growth and a whole host of psychic rewards. Never regret your past. Rather, embrace it as the teacher that it is.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." —Norman Cousins

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

Spring has past, summer has gone and winter is here. And the song that I meant to sing remains unsung. I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument.

Leadership requires great courage. It is tough to leave the gravitational pull of the crowd around us. It is tough to take the road less traveled when everyone urges you to be like everyone else. It is tough to create your life on your own terms when others are telling you how your life should be created. But nothing will fill your heart with a greater sense of regret than lying on your deathbed knowing that you did not live your life and do your dreams.

Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again. Those who use time wisely from an early age are rewarded with rich, productive and satisfying lives.

Courage is an exquisite weapon to defeat the armies of regret that tear away at lives meekly lived.

The saddest part of life lies not in the act of dying, but in failing to truly live while we are alive.

One of the lessons I have learned in my own life is that if you don't act on life, life has a habit of acting on you. The days slip into weeks, the weeks slip into months and the months slip into years. Pretty soon it's all over and you are left with nothing more than a heart filled with regret over a life half lived.

on your deathbed, in the twilight of your life, it will not be all the risks you took that you will regret the most.

On our deathbeds, none of us wishes we had more money in the bank or a bigger car sitting in the driveway. Instead, as we take our last few breaths, we wish that we had lived a life that was courageous, authentic and remarkably loving.

Spring has passed, summer has gone and winter is here. And the song that i meant to sing remains unsung. I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument.

cuando la mayoría de la gente se da cuenta de lo que realmente quiere y de cómo obtenerlo, suele ser demasiado tarde. Los jóvenes no saben, los viejos no pueden.

The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us while we live.

Twenty years from now,' a quote I think comes from Mark Twain says, 'you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Llegar a tu último día y descubrir que podías haber sido un líder y transformar el mundo en un lugar mejor. Pero te negaste a aceptar esa misión porque te dio miedo. Así que fracasaste. Y desperdiciaste

For what it's worth, it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be . . . I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again." —F. Scott Fitzgerald

the soreness of growth is so much less expensive than the devastating costs of regret.

Most people don't discover how to live until it's time to die-and that's a shame. Most people spend the best years of their lives watching television in a subdivision. Most people die at twenty and are buried at eighty. Please, don't let that happen to you.