Regret Quotes - Page 4

• You won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Women, He Man, Men

  Bernard Cornwell (1997). “The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur”, p.120, Macmillan

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• Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Birthday, Time, Struggle

  'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 3, ch. 1

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• The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

  Helen Rowland

  Women, Opportunity, Getting Older

  A Guide to Men "Improvisations" (1922)

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  When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspiring, Motivation, Business

  "King of Cyber-Commerce". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 4, 2001.

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• For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.

  Norm MacDonald

  Done, Causes, Effects

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• One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

  Jean Cocteau

  Dream, Cutting, Fantasy

  "La Difficulté d'Etre ('The Difficulty of Being')". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1947.

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• Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

  Charles Dickens

  Hair, Age, Aging

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.183, Booklassic

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• As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.

  Stephen Fry

  Government, Victory, Next

  BBC "This Week", May 19, 2006.

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• I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Hurt, Past, Might

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• I do not regret one moment of my life.

  Lillie Langtry

  Life, Insperational, Moments

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• Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

  Jean Rostand

  Beautiful, Mistake, Science

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

  Francoise Sagan

  Book, Want, One Thing

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• If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people and with violent material. I don't regret having concerned myself with such people, because I think that most of us are disturbed.

  Tennessee Williams

  Thinking, People, Disturbed

  "Conversations with Tennessee Williams".

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• When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

  E. W. Howe

  Life, Men, Spending Time

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• 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

  Sweat, Tears, Needs

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• My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit, as well as physically.

  Stephen Hawking

  People, Advice, Would Be

  "Life and the Cosmos, Word by Painstaking Word". Interview with Claudia Dreifus, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

  Zachary Taylor

  Friendship, Presidential, Friends Come And Go

  Zachary Taylor, Smith PYNE (1850). “Obituary Addresses delivered on the occasion of the death of Z. Taylor ... in the Senate and House of Representatives ... with the funeral Semon by the Rev. S. Pyne, etc”, p.8

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• It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.

  Chris Kyle

  Jobs, War, Marine

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

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• The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mistake, Common Sense, Dorian Grey

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891)

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• Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Inspirational, Life, Courage

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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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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• I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Inspirational, Motivation, Night

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• 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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