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Quotes About Regrets

I don't really have many regrets. I did miss a lot of the events in the days leading up to my sister's wedding because I was at a U17 camp. There were moments like that growing up when I felt like I focused too much on soccer. But that's probably the reason I am where I am today.
~ Alex Morgan
I have some regrets that I might have hurt men in my life. But they can take care of themselves.
~ China Machado
Most of the advice I have received revolves around taking advantage of all the Performance Center has to offer and always giving my best, so I have no regrets.
~ Andrade
History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.
~ Graydon Carter
I took a lot of wrong decisions, and got talked into a lot of things. Of course, if I could go back in time, I might change some things, but wouldn't everyone? I have no regrets.
~ Rebecca Loos
I have no regrets. I had an amazing surrogate who carried my son for me. I am so grateful to her. I can even say I am grateful for having cancer. I was always meant to be a mom, but if I didn't have cancer, I never would have had Zev. I would have had a kid, but not Zev, and I want Zev - tantrums and all.
~ Marissa Jaret Winokur
The pages continue to turn, and every day I'm a little older, hopefully a little wiser and a lot more grateful. Do I have regrets? I have a few - but not as many as you might think. If it hadn't been for the darkness, I never would have known the light. In life we all take different paths, some more difficult than others, but in the end, all that matters is whether or not they lead us home.
~ Richard Paul Evans
too late, so Ostin came with us. As we were leaving the hotel
~ Richard Paul Evans
Give the future enough thought to be ready for it—but don't worry about it. Live each day as if you were to die next sunrise. Then face each sunrise as a fresh creation and live for it, joyously. And never think about the past. No regrets, ever.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
~ Khaled Hosseini
There was for me nothing that might have been called the pinnacle of my youth, and so no moment for stopping it. One should stop at the pinnacle. I could discern none. Strangely, I feel no regrets.
~ Yukio Mishima
The best recipe for happiness and contentment I've seen is this: dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts and put into it all your disillusions, disappointments, regrets, worries, troubles, doubts, and fears. Cover well with the earth of fruitfulness. Water it from the well of contentment. Sow on top the seeds of hope, courage, strength, patience, and love. Then when the time for gathering comes, may your harvest be a rich and fruitful one.
~ ziglar zig
Human history is littered with might-have-beens.
~ Zoë Sharp
Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
~ zola emile
The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
~ zola emile
We all have alternate lives we might have lived had we made different decisions, including decisions about whom to marry. I
~ Deborah Tannen
Psychologically, stress results whenever anxiety about the future or regrets about the past are invoked.
~ Deepak Chopra
One of the major regrets of life, for most people, is their yielding to the wishes of others, instead of doing what their heart desired most. Always dare to respect yourself first before anyone else, in your speech as much as in your actions. Self-respect is the precursor to Success.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
What about you?" he asked, his words not much more than a mumble. "Regrets?" "Many," Skuduggery said. Tesseract's breath rattled in his chest. "That's the goo thing about living. You get to make up for past mistakes." "Or make brand-new ones.
~ Derek Landy
I don't do regrets. 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
I don't want to start the rest of my life having regrets.
~ Jen Calonita
Good news: most people are surprisingly respectful with boundaries. Folks take a no better than I suspected. When I say, "Thank you for inviting me into this good thing of yours. It is as extraordinary as you are. But any new yes I give means a no to my family and sanity. Please accept my sincere regrets and count on my prayers," most people are amazing. You can say no, and no one will die.
~ Jen Hatmaker
Wise women know what to hold onto and what to release, and how to walk confidently in their choices—no regrets, no apologies, no guilt. I deeply believe God wants this freedom for us. Scripture instructs us to live presently and joyfully, resisting worry and believing Jesus set us free for freedom's sake.
~ Jen Hatmaker
Thank you for inviting me into this good thing of yours. It is as extraordinary as you are. But any new yes I give means a no to my family and sanity. Please accept my sincere regrets and count on my prayers,
~ Jen Hatmaker