Regret Quotes and Sayings Page 2

Regret, remorse, sorrow all emotions that can result in negative feelings. Only you can change your emotions to positive ones, you cannot change the past but you can change the future by helping someone."

Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is only good for wallowing in. Katherine Mansfield

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. Jim Rohn

It is not the experience of Today that drives a person mad, it is the remorse or bitterness of something which happened Yesterday and the dread of what Tomorrow may bring. Author Unknown, from Two Days We Should Not Worry

Never look back and regret, look back and smile at what you have learned. Michelle C. Ustaszeski

When tomorrow comes this day will be gone forever, but I shall hold something which I have traded for it. It may be no more than a memory, but if it is a worthy one I shall not regret the price. Author Unknown, from A New Day

I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened. Yanni

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. Alexander Graham Bell

Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good. William O'Rourke

Take care that you don't come to know, a thing that's called regret. Wish Belkin, from Courage

Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is. George Carlin, from How To Stay Young

I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person. Rita Mero

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

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

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. George Sand


"From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance."
Italian Proverb








Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
Victoria Holt








"Regrets are
the natural property
of grey hairs."

Charles Dickens


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