Regret Quotes To Help You Forget & Move On

Regret is something that will totally change your life. Some people learn from it and make their future better but some people lose their all happiness in life because of regret. We have collected some of the best regret quotes from various people who have experienced regret themselves. We hope that these quotes about regret will surely help you learn from your mistakes rather than regret them.

• Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity. — Omar Ibn Al-Halif

• Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and just give her a house. — Rod Stewart

• No man is rich enough to buy back his past. — Oscar Wilde

• I regretted the time I wasted on things that did not matter with people that [do] matter. — Ric Elias 

• I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. — William Shakespeare
• The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Never let yesterday use up too much of today. — Will Rogers
• The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. — David Russell
• I’ve had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn’t. — Patrick Murray

• Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
• While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster. — Abigail Van Buren
• I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done. — Lucille Ball
• We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. — Jim Rohn
• I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences… I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else. — Queen Latifah
• I don’t regret what I’ve been through. I’ve had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I’ve been so blessed that I could never say, ‘I wish this didn’t happen.’ It’s part of who I am. There’s nothing in my life that’s so ugh. — Jennifer Lopez
• 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
• Speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret. — Laurence J. Peter
• Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow. — L. Ron Hubbard
• Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. — Benjamin Disraeli

• It’s better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret. — Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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Quotes on Life And Regret

• In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct. — John C. Calhoun
• I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent. — Publilius Syrus
• Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart. — Basil Rathbone
• If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret. — Jim Carrey
• 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
• I do not regret the things I’ve done, but those I did not do. — Rory Cochrane
• I regret those times when I’ve chosen the dark side. I’ve wasted enough time not being happy. — Jessica Lange
• There are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain I have caused others by words and actions. To the people I have hurt, I am truly sorry. — Matt Lauer
• I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. — Nathan Hale
• 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
• I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing. — Gavrilo Princip
• My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. — Woody Allen
• Never regret what you don’t write. — Abraham Lincoln
• Life is too short to hold regrets. Once it’s done, you cannot regret it. — Kay Kay Menon
• I’d rather regret doing something than not doing something. —- James Hetfield
• We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. — Ray Stannard Baker
• There is nothing to regret with a job well done. — Joe Garcia
• The past is a great place and I don’t want to erase it or to regret it, but I don’t want to be its prisoner either. — Mick Jagger
• I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end. — Drew Barrymore

Famous Regret Quotes

• I live a life that I never regret any decision. — Ricky Rubio
• The one thing I learned is to just give everything a shot. You don’t want to live in regret. — Chloe Kim
• As long as you feel good in something, it doesn’t matter what other people think. You just have to own it. You’ll never regret wearing something you really love. — Lucy Boynton
• I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. — J. Edgar Hoover
• No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. — Samuel Beckett
• 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 is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I’m content. — William Shatner
• 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
• You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward. — Aubrey O’Day
• I used to suffer from a lot of regret while touring. Regret at having to leave certain places, people and situations, or just a beautiful day. — Kiri Te Kanawa
• O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• I do not regret one moment of my life. — Lillie Langtry
• My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don’t make that mistake yourself. Life’s too damn short. — Armistead Maupin
• I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me. — Zachary Taylor
• The regret of my life is that I have not said ‘I love you’ often enough. — Yoko Ono
• 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
• Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. — Charles Dudley Warner
• Everyday I look back at my history and feel regret. — J Hus
• Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. — Charles Dudley Warner
• I never regret. I don’t like to look back on my life and have regrets. — Sarah Harding

Motivational Regret Quotes

• I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. — James Madison
• Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. — Jonathan Larson
• The only things you regret are the things you don’t do. — Michael Curtiz
• Regret doesn’t remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better. — Kathryn Schulz
• I never regret what I do. I’m very proud of every work I have done. — Kunal Khemu
• 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 leads to negativity, and negativity kills creativity. — Carol Channing
• To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity. — Bodhidharma
• I truly don’t believe in regret. — Bethenny Frankel
• I’ll never regret going on my mission. — Shawn Bradley
• Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents. — Bahman Ghobadi
• I live in the present because the past is regret, and the future is anxiety. — Patrice Evra
• I definitely regret the surgeries that I have had over the years, I think I was so young and in such an unstable situation in my life with so much going on and so much pressure. — Heidi Montag
• My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely. — Truman Capote
• My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life. — Rose Kennedy
• Everyday I look back at my history and feel regret. — J Hus
• No, I don’t regret my decision at all, especially after I started this music career. My eyes were as big as saucers. — Johnny Mathis
• I never regret my decisions. — Alexis Sanchez
• I don’t regret anything and what I have done in my period of my life. Everything happens for a reason, and that’s why I am here. — Golshifteh Farahani
• I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine. — Alice Walker

Regret Quotes About Mistakes

• My biggest regret is that I wasn’t able to help give our fans a championship. — Calvin Johnson
• The great regret of my life is that I didn’t have children. — Charlie Rose
• I love to never regret, or go, ‘I wish I would have tried that.’ — Sara Evans
• I think people may regret not following their instincts a lot. — Yo Gotti
• You tend to regret the things you haven’t done. — Darcey Bussell
• One of my biggest regrets ever was not taking the time to go to South Africa to meet Nelson Mandela. That is a big regret of mine. I should have figured out a way. — Charles Barkley
• I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family. — — Barbara Walters
• No, I don’t regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don’t regret anything. — William Shatner
• I don’t regret what I’ve done but some of the things I didn’t do. — Carol Kane
• I don’t regret anything, not even leaving Boca because it was the time to do so. — Carlos Tevez
• Regret is a bitter emotion, so painful that the urge to avoid it often drives decision-making strategies. — Robin Marantz Henig
• It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret. — Jackie Joyner-Kersee
• My only regret about money is that I don’t have more to give away. — John C. Bogle
• I regret losing certain women, but it was always my fault. — Scott Baio
• I never regret nothing I say. Never. Nothing I do. Never regret it. — LeSean McCoy
• I don’t want to regret doing something that I don’t believe in. — Nani
• I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret. — Bernard Tschumi
• I don’t regret anything I ever do or say. I don’t like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you’re honest. — Eva Longoria
• If you regret a mistake, don’t just make that mistake again. Look at it and learn from it and grow from it. — Vitor Belfort

• I think the last thing you want in life is to live with regret. — Rob Halford