Regret Quotes

• Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Cute, Sad

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• I have no regrets - in fact, I am pleased to have expelled the US ambassador, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and to have closed the US military base in Bolivia. Now, without a US ambassador, there is less conspiracy, and more political stability and social stability. Without the International Monetary Fund, we are better off economically.

  Evo Morales

  Military, Political, Drug

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• What we most regret are not the errors we make, but the things we didnt do.

  Audrey Sutherland

  Errors

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• Don't be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Failure, Past, Opportunity

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2014

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  Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sympathy, Fear, Moving Forward

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.124, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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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, Fear, Apology

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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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• It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Done, Havens

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• It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.

  Federico Fellini

  Past, Waste, Wasting Time

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• Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Remorse is the poison of life.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Poison, Remorse

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.115, Penguin

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  A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

  John Barrymore

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret

  Leo Buscaglia

  Motivational, Challenges, Defeat

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• I would rather regret what I have done than what I have not.

  Fannie Hurst

  Done

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  Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Flower

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  With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Positive, Sorry

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 29, 2015

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• I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.

  Umar

  Silence, Words Of Wisdom, Speech

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  Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspirational, Im Sorry, Being Yourself

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• To regret deeply is to live afresh.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Negativity

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.

  Charles Goodyear

  Men, Causes, Reap

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• You have to take the good with the bad, smile when you're sad, love what you've got and remember what you had...Always forgive but never forget, learn from your mistakes but never regret, people change, things go wrong, just remember, life goes on.

  Unknown

  Sad Love, Forgiveness, Mistake

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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, Years, History

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