Past Regrets Quotes

• Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

  Jean Plaidy

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

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• Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Courage, Regret

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  I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

  Nathan Hale

  Inspirational, Life, Country

  Before being executed as a spy by the British, 22 September 1776, in Henry Phelps Johnston 'Nathan Hale, 1776' (1914) ch. 7.

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• Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Regret, Self, Agreement

  "The Four Agreements". Book by Don Miguel Ruiz, 1997.

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• I don't regret my past, I just regret the time I've wasted on the wrong people.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Regret, Past, People

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• Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

  Fulton Oursler

  Moving On, Regret, Fear

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• When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Break Up, Encouraging, Broken Heart

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• Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

  Sivananda

  Inspiring, Depression, Attitude

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• Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Positive, Fear, Moving Forward

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• A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wise, Regret, Lying

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• Let the dead Past bury its dead!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  New Year, Regret, Moving

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 6 (1838)

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• Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

  Tryon Edwards

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• Don't regret the past or fear the future. Both bring misery through self-doubt.

  Deepak Chopra

  Regret, Past, Self

  Deepak Chopra, Rudolph E. Tanzi (2012). “Super Brain: Unleashing the explosive power of your mind to maximize health, happiness and spiritual well-being”, p.54, Random House

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• The only thing we can control is what we do in the present. The more we replay yesterday, the further we get from today's opportunities. And the further away we move from opportunities, the tougher the road is to get back. Opportunities never look as good coming as they do going, and they wait for no one. We need to be highly attentive to spot them. And we must be focused on our present capabilities, not past regrets.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Leadership, Regret

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• I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worried about it. I can't change it. I can't fix it. It is what it is. I'm just living.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Regret, Past, Steps

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• To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Regret, Past, Whole Life

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• Above all, documentary must reflect the problems and realities of the present. It cannot regret the past; it is dangerous to prophesy the future. It can, and does, draw on the past in its use of existing heritages but it only does so to give point to a modern argument. In no sense is documentary a historical reconstruction and attempts to make it so are destined to failure. Rather it is contemporary fact and event expressed in relation to human associations.

  Paul Rotha

  Regret, Past, Reality

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• Today, I will try to remember to regret the past. I will think of how many mistakes I have made throughout my life. I will say to myself, "If only I could go back in time and make different choices, so that my life could be the way it should have been." Then I will remind myself that I cannot.

  John S. Hall

  Regret, Mistake, Past

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.

  Omar Khayyam

  Regret, Wine, Past

  Omar Khayyam (1859). “Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-poet of Persia”, p.5

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• Career is the stringing together of opportunities and jobs. Mix in public opinion and past regrets. Add a dash of future panic and a whole lot of financial uncertainty. Career is something that fools you into thinking you are in control and then takes pleasure in reminding you that you aren't. Career is the thing that will not fill you up and will never make you truly whole.

  Amy Poehler

  Jobs, Regret, Past

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.169, Pan Macmillan

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• Do not regret the past. Look to the future.

  Soyen Shaku

  Regret, Past, Looks

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• Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Regret, Past, Roles

  "Kristin Scott Thomas: 'Food mixers are not on the menu, thanks...'" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2010.

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• The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life, is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much

  Mel Gibson

  Spiritual, Regret, Past

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