• A few moments of misplaced values can mean a lifetime of regret. ~ Author Unknown
• A gypsy only tells the truth once in his life but he regrets it afterwards. ~ Gypsy Proverb
• Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions, “If I had my life to live over, I’d do it all the same.” ~ Joan McIntosh
• All of the Earth’s treasures can’t bring back a lost moment. ~ French Proverb
• Always repenting of wrongs done will never bring my heart to rest. ~ Chi K’ang
• Better by far you should forget and smile, than that you should remember and be sad. ~ Christina Rosetti
• Better to prevent than regret. ~ Salvadoran Proverb
• Better to sell with regret than to keep with regret. ~ Swiss Proverb
• Between tomorrow’s dream and yesterday’s regret is today’s opportunity. ~ Author Unknown
• Failure is never as scary as regret. ~ Author Unknown
• For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: “It might have been!” ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
• He who hesitates, regrets. ~ Albanian Proverb
• I demolish my bridges behind me… then there is no choice but forward. ~ Firdtjof Nansen
• I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent. ~ Publilius Syrus
• I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. ~ Nathan Hale
• If we always look back, we lose sight of what’s ahead. ~ Justin Sims
• If you are going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for in the morning, sleep late. ~ Henny Youngman
• It’s better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret. ~ Jackie Joyner-Kersee
• It’s not what you are; it’s what you don’t become that hurts. ~ Oscar Levant
• Judgement comes from experience, and great judgement comes from bad experience. ~ Robert Packwood
• Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain. ~ Arthur Waley
• Let the dead Past bury its dead! ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Let’s not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that’s gone. ~ William Shakespeare
• Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ~ Arthur Miller
• My one regret in life is that I’m not someone else. ~ Woody Allen
• Never look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
• Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience. ~ Victoria Holt
• Nobody who ever gave his best, regretted it. ~ George Halas
• One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late. ~ Agatha Christie
• Only in your imagination can you revise. ~ Fay Wray
• People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, and then repent. ~ Bob Dylan
• Perform good deeds; you will not regret them. ~ Moroccan Proverb
• Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. ~ Sidney J. Harris
• 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. ~ Arthur Brisbane
• Regret, like a tail, comes at the end. ~ Ethiopian Proverb
• Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs. ~ Charles Dickens
• Regretting the past is like chasing after the wind. ~ Russian Proverb
• Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. ~ Ambrose Bierce
• The best of prophets of the future is the past. ~ Lord Byron
• The biggest thing in today’s sorrow is the memory of yesterday’s joy. ~ Kahlil Gibran
• The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The first half of life is spent in longing for the second, the second half in regretting the first. ~ French Proverb
• The man, who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
• The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret. ~ Leo Buscaglia
• The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy. ~ Germaine Greer
• The only things you regret are the things you didn’t do. ~ Michael Curtiz
• The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. ~ Alfred North Whitehead
• The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but… what we ought to avoid. ~ Jose Ortega Y Gasset
• The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor. ~ William Hazlitt
• To regret deeply is to live afresh. ~ Henry David Thoreau
• Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday. ~ John Wayne
• We can’t afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be. ~ Denis Waitley
• We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow. ~ Fulton Oursler
• We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. ~ Jim Rohn
• Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret? ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
• When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment. ~ Author Unknown
• You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see. ~ Richard Martin Stern

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