Quotes about regret
regret able feels
Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read. Antonio Tabucchi
regret direct-effect educator
Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness. Derek Bok
regret sweat tears
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
regret wonder feels
she wonders if we feel more regret for the things we do or for the things we didn't do Deb Caletti
regret tears wipe
The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
regret yesterday today
The deepest regret of yesterday can be made right by following the Savior today.
regret giving one-day
If we fail to give our time with those we love, one day we will live to regret it.
regret path holiness
The more we devote ourselves to the pursuit of holiness and happiness, the less likely we will be on a path to regrets.
regret kissing kiss-me
Then kiss me, Claire," he whispered, "And know that you are more to me than life, and I have no regret. Diana Gabaldon
regret loss long
It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of power they principally regret the want of occupation. Edward Gibbon
regret years play
God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets. Ed Koch
regret taken long
By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards. Elizabeth McGovern
regret years lasts
There's a lot of regrets about last year - maybe turning up was the biggest regret about it Alan Sugar
regret father grieving
I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is nothing to grieve about. We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest. I leave no one to regret me much: I have only a father; and he is lately married, and will not miss me. By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault. Charlotte Bronte
regret poison remorse
Remorse is the poison of life.
regret apology long
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. Charles Dudley Warner
regret hard-times long
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth. Charles Dickens
regret opportunity space
No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused
regret sleep insomnia
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret. Charles Caleb Colton
regret done probability
We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.
regret humble errors
As there are some faults that have been termed faults on the right side, so there are some errors that might be denominated errors on the safe side. Thus we seldom regret having been too mild, too cautious, or too humble; but we often repent having been too violent, too precipitate, or too proud.
regret night errors
It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.
regret hair age
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
regret heart men
Repentance was never yet produced in any man's heart apart from the grace of God. As soon may you expect the leopard to regret the blood with which its fangs are moistened,—as soon might you expect the lion of the wood to abjure his cruel tyranny over the feeble beasts of the plain, as expect the sinner to make any confession, or offer any repentance that shall be accepted of God, unless grace shall first renew the heart. Charles Spurgeon
regret shadow steps
I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret. Alan Moore
regret mistake character
I don't regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn't pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it. Al Pacino
regret latin people
One of the regrets of my life is that I did not study Latin. I'm absolutely convinced, the more I understand these eighteenth-century people, that it was that grounding in Greek and Latin that gave them their sense of the classic virtues: the classic ideals of honor, virtue, the good society, and their historic examples of what they could try to live up to. David McCullough
regret giving another-chance
Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon of Present Regret. 'What have you done? David Mitchell
regret opportunity opposites
Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders. David Knopfler
regret heart silence
You should learn to say nothing that will cause you regret. You should not say what is not in your heart - or what is only in your heart for a moment. But you know this - silence is better. David Guterson
regret feel-better oil
Regret has a purpose. It's like the oil light on the dashboard of your life, telling you something needs to be fixed. So fix it. And feel better. David D. Burns
regret sea beloved-wife
He felt a momentary pang of regret that he had not spent more time with his beloved wife. But it passed when he remembered that the reason he’d gone to sea in the first place was that he had never really liked his beloved wife. Dave Barry
regret done pressure
Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days. David Talbot