Regret Quotes - Page 13

• I don't miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.

  Adam Gopnik

  Joy, Missing, Chance

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• I'm far from perfect. There's a lot of times you'll say something that you regret or do something that you regret and wish you wouldn't have said it or done it.

  Matt Kenseth

  Perfect, Wish, Done

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• 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

  Feel Better, Light, Oil

  Source: time.com

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• Give it your best shot. Go for it. If it's what you really want to do, go for it. Even if you don't make it, you will never look back and have regrets. You can always say, "Hey, I went for it. I tried my hardest. It was an awesome experience."

  Carmen Rasmusen

  Giving, Looks, Hey

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Most people who are on the road are pretty damaged. It's an escapist's life. It's not a life that forces you to look in the mirror at where you're at and what you're doing. It's one where you leave the mirror behind. I think that appeals to something in all of us. On the open road, all of your regrets are out the window.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Thinking, Mirrors, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Never, never waste a minute on regret. It's a waste of time.

  Harry S. Truman

  Waste, Wasting Time, Minutes

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• A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Lovers

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• The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of authority and wealth; it stands for self-denial and self-abnegation, for penance and regret, and is absolutely inert in the face of every [in]dignity, every outrage imposed upon mankind.

  Emma Goldman

  Father, Self, Church

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• I have never known anyone to accept Christ's redemption and later regret it.

  Billy Graham

  Redemption, Christ, Accepting

  Billy Graham (2013). “The Reason for My Hope: Salvation”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My father died very suddenly at sixty-three. Just dropped dead. For a long time afterward, I'd ask myself, Why didn't I ask him to play golf more? Why didn't I spend more time with him? But when you're off trying to get the brass ring, you forget and overlook those little things. It gives you a certain amount of regret later on, but there's nothing you can do about it. So you just forge on.

  Clint Eastwood

  Father, Golf, Play

  "Clint Eastwood: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2008.

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• I know that I will always regret it later in life if I had turned down the chance to play at another great club like Real Madrid...

  David Beckham

  Real, Later In Life, Play

  "Thanks all round at parting of ways" by David Harbord, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2003.

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• I don't regret not coming out early. A lot of people felt that I could have been a lottery pick, but we'll never know.

  Michael Finley

  People, Coming Out, Felt

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• No apologies, no regrets.

  Gale Harold

  Apology, No Regrets

  "Fictional character: Brian Kinney". TV Series "Queer as Folk", 2000-2005.

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• The only mental games in ski racing is the mental game against yourself. Is the whole goal of life preserving your life as long as you can? No. The goal is to enjoy your life, challenge yourself, to sometimes make stupid decisions-which are sometimes fun and sometimes idiotic and sometimes just a big fat mistake you regret.

  Bode Miller

  Fun, Mistake, Stupid

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• Do it or don't do it - you will regret both.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  You Will Regret

  Soren Kierkegaard (2004). “Either/Or: A Fragment of Life”, p.409, Penguin UK

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• One is not old until Dreams become Regrets.

  David Bryant

  Dream

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• I did some things I regret, and I know there are people who think they know me. I've heard the things they say, and some of them are hurtful.

  Lamar Odom

  Thinking, People, Hurtful

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• I can manage the regret, if not my own finances.

  Patricia Grasso

  Finance, My Own, Manage

  Patricia Grasso (2006). “Seducing the prince”

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• I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we'll make peace with each other . . . No rush.

  Paul Simon

  One Day, Making Peace, Dies

  "Rock Hall of Fame enrolls new class" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. March 20, 2001.

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• Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future
  And focus intelligently on the present.
  This is the best way of ensuring a positive future.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Past, Focus, Anxiety

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• When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the gospel to pumpkin pie. These, however, much as we may regret it, most savages receive with indifference. What they really value among the gifts that we bring to them is intoxicating liquor which enables them, for the first time in their lives, to have the illusion for a few brief moments that it is better to be alive than dead.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Light, Race

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.165, Routledge

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• I was at a restaurant and I heard this little voice at a nearby table pipe up and say, 'I believe I will have the chowder.' I got up and walked out into the middle of the restaurant. There was Sterling Holloway just sitting there being Sterling Holloway. Never in a million years would I have imagined that I'd have the honor of filling his shoes. I just regret not going up to him and saying hello.

  Jim Cummings

  Believe, Years, Shoes

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• While it is a cause for regret that Fischer did not continue to produce scintillating games, he perhaps had a greater impact on chess than any other twentieth century player

  John Nunn

  Player, Impact, Games

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• To say "no" is painful, but much better than a "yes" that brings regrets.

  Paulo Coelho

  Painful

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• Failure is something I can deal with. Regret is not.

  Jeremy Schoemaker

  Deals, I Can

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