Life Regret Quotes - Page 2

• Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Regret, Looks, Life Moves On

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  Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

  Arthur Miller

  Life, Regret, Mistake

  FaceBook post by Arthur Miller from May 08, 2014

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• My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Epigraph to Eric Lax Woody Allen and his Comedy (1975)

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• You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Regret

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

  Robert E. Lee

  Regret, Views, Light

  Robert E. Lee, Ben Wynne (2004). “Recollections and Letters”, p.221, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

  Stefan Zweig

  Life, Regret, Years

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• There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

  Marcel Proust

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.775, Wordsworth Editions

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• Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

  Mary McCarthy

  Regret, Thinking, Action

  Mary McCarthy (2002). “A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays”, New York Review of Books

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• Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Forgiveness, Problems Love, New Day

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• My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Regret, Food, Wine

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• Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Trust, Being Yourself

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• My mantra has always been to have zero regrets in life. Everything I do at one speed, I go all-out.

  Apolo Ohno

  Zero, Regret, Speed

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• I don't want things that I regret in life, and things that I have not done - and I don't want to at 80 years wake up, and tell myself: 'Oh I was on top of my shape and skills and I didn't do it.'

  Georges St-Pierre

  Regret, Years, Skills

  Source: www.bloodyelbow.com

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• One's only real regret in life is the failure to act.

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock

  Regret, Real, Life Is

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock (2012). “Trick of the Eye: A Novel”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Regret, Wine, Sleep

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• I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to
  receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Daughter, Regret, Thinking

  "Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interviewed with Peter H. Stone. Issue 82, p. 339, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 1981.

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• My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.

  Perry Como

  Regret, Kids, Wish

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• My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Regret, Humor

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• You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Children, Regret, Mistake

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• My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

  Truman Capote

  Lonely, Regret, Childhood

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• You will have fewer regrets in life if you start focusing and taking responsiblity for where you are and where you want to be.

  Deborah

  Regret, Want, Where You Are

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• When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.

  Ben Nicholson

  Girl, Regret, School

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• MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Regret, Boxing, Champion

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• Most people’s major life regrets are not about the things they’ve done, but about the things they’ve not done, the goals they never reached, the type of lover or friend or parent they wished they’d been but know they failed to be.

  Thom Hartmann

  Regret, People, Goal

  Thom Hartmann (2011). “The Thom Hartmann Reader”, p.149, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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