You Will Regret Quotes

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

  Bernard Cornwell

  Regret, Women, He Man

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

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• Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

  Eric Mangini

  Inspirational, Strength, Motivational Sports

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• It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts.

  Oscar Levant

  Hurt, Regret, Don't Regret

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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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• If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

  Jim Carrey

  Karma, Pain, Regret

  "Carrey: 'Life Is Too Beautiful'". www.cbsnews.com. November 18, 2004.

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  The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Relationship, Happiness, Sympathy

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.58

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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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• 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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• You will regret many things in life but you will never regret being too kind or too fair.

  Brian Tracy

  Regret, Things In Life, Kind

  Twitter post from Sep 16, 2014

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• I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Regret, Stupid, Apology

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

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• Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Moving On, Forgiveness, Regret

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

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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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  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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• I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Regret, Philosophy, Two

  "Either/Or". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, February 20, 1843.

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• 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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• At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

  Barbara Bush

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  Barbara Bush (1994). “Barbara Bush: A Memoir”, Scribner

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• Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Inspirational, Regret, Self Esteem

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

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• Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Love, Positive, Heartbreak

  David Grayson, Ray Stannard Baker (1942). “Under My Elm: Country Discoveries and Reflections”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran

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• The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

  Michael Curtiz

  Regret, Short Life, Life Is Too Short

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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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• Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Regret

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.288, Wildside Press LLC

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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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 think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

  Henry James

  Birthday, Regret, Thinking

  Letter to Hugh Walpole, 21 Aug. 1913

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• You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.

  Sophocles

  Regret, Hate, Anger

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