Quotes About Regret

The biggest mistake I ever made was snorting cocaine. The second biggest mistake was I didn't realize that show business was two words.

You actually, waste time when you cry over wasted time. Time should be a guide that helps you focus. All you should worry about is ageing with unfinished business.

In addition to unfinished business, some ghosts haunt so that they will be remembered.

Of all the cars I've owned, I'd like still to have the Ferrari, the Porsche, the Alfa, the Lancia, the MG-TCs and the Fiat 850, but mostly I miss my Mini Moke.

When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.

Today I saw a car crush my little dog under it's wheel.

I never cast a flower away, A gift of one who car'd for me; A flower--a faded flower, But it was done reluctantly.

Took your car, drove to Texas. Sorry honey, but I suspected, you and I can't cry anymore.

My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.

Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.

Everybody Out There....Dont take ANYBODY for granted.Cause you never know when you might lose them,and you may never get the chance to tell them how you really feel

Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.

I totally should've gone to Hogwarts when I had the chance.

So, knowing what you know now, if you had the chance to go back to, say, '68, '70, would you do things differently?

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?

I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.

I sat back, allowing Wes's words to sink in. Then I responded, "I guess it's hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances.

There are a lot of people who might not get another chance to win a Super Bowl, not just me.

The past, for everyone, is full of missed chances, surviving to understand them, if not set them straight, is one of the things that makes the next breath worth taking.

There comes a time when we are able to be pierced to the heart by our own suffering, and the suffering of others, and by our own regrets, without it dragging us down.

We have this mistaken idea that either we have regret or we get rid of it. Trungpa Rinpoche talked about holding the sadness of life in our heart while never forgetting the beauty of the world and the goodness of being alive.

Eventually it dawns on us that we can regret causing harm without becoming weighed down by negative shame. Just seeing the hurt and heartbreak clearly motivates us to move on. By acknowledging what we did, cleanly and compassionately, we go forward.