Top 33 Deep, Inspirational Quotes About "Regret" (2022)

"I have no regrets. I believe you have to go through everything to grow and learn."

--- A. J. McLean

#Regret #Believe #Grows

"Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else."

--- A. J. P. Taylor

#Ifs #People #Running

"On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes."

--- A. N. Wilson

#Night #Lost #Regret

"No regrets. There is no time for that. Regret is boring."

--- A. R. Rahman

#Boring #Regret #No Regrets

"If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end."

--- A.C. Grayling

#Ifs #Giving #Way

"Never do today what you can do tomorrow, because something may occur to make you regret your premature action."

--- Aaron Burr

#Can Do #Today #Tomorrow

"One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies."

--- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

#Should #Young #Law

"I dropped my phone on the floor and let the pain assail me. I'd given my heart away to someone who didn't want it. Even knowing that, I didn't regret it. I just wanted him to want me. I just wanted him to love me too."

--- Abbi Glines

#Want #Regret #Heart

"Don’t give up. You’ll regret it."

--- Abbi Glines

#Giving #Regret #Giving Up

"Things worth having don't come easy," Woods said. "You have to fight for it until you're tired of fighting, and then you take a breather and fight some more." He squeezed my shoulder. "Don't give up. You'll regret it."

--- Abbi Glines

#Giving #Regret #Easy

"I love it when I meet a woman who was poor as a child and maybe had an abusive family, and broke out and found the one and they're married with a very healthy home and children, and they've let go of regret and their past and decided to embrace their journey and what that stands for."

--- Abbie Cornish

#Children #Regret #Found

"Be content with what you have Be satisfied with your dwelling place to accommodate your enterprise, Restrain your tongue, And shed tears of regret regarding past sins you committed knowingly, and those you do not recognize."

--- Abdullah, Son of Masud

#Tongue #Regret #Wisdom

"One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great deal of hope and many dreams."

--- Abigail McCarthy

#Fruit #Regret #Deals

"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

#Ifs #Giving #Feels

"Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that you will, very soon, feel better - quite happy - if you only stick to the resolution you have taken to procure a military education.... 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

#Ifs #Giving #Feels

"My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit."

--- Abraham Verghese

#People #Spirit #Regret

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

--- Adam Gopnik

#Chance #Missing #Regret

"There's no regrets for me."

--- Adam Lambert

#Regret #No Regrets

"Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not hear The flutter of its wings, and feel it near, And just within our reach? It was. And yet We lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vague regret; But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late. No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been."

--- Adelaide Anne Procter

#Feels #Has Beens #May

"Regrets and Mistakes, they're Memories made"

--- Adele

#Made #Regret #Mistake

"To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing."

--- Adolf Eichmann

#Evil #Regret #Political

"I realise that man, in his imperfection, can commit innumerable errors - but to devote myself deliberately to errors, that is something I cannot do. I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie. Our epoch, in the next 200 years, will certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity. My regret will have been that I could not behold its demise."

--- Adolf Hitler

#Has Beens #Years #Ends

"I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful"

--- Adriana Trigiani

#Regret #Sleep #Tears

"It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success, did not leave us with the proofs of the theorems he discovered. In truth, Messrs Euler and Lagrange, who have not disdained this kind of research, have proved most of these theorems, and have even substituted extensive theories for the isolated propositions of Fermat. But there are several proofs which have resisted their efforts."

--- Adrien-Marie Legendre

#Theory #Regret #Kind

"Don't cry over spilt milk."

--- Aesop

#Regret #Dessert #Cry

"Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?"

--- Agnes Repplier

#Years #Middle #Regret

"There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small, daily joys. The bright sunshine on the breakfast table; the smell of the air at dusk; the sound of the clock ticking; the light rains that start gently after midnight; the hour when the family come home; Sunday-evening tea before the fire! I have never missed one moment of beauty, not even taken it for granted. Spring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways."

--- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

#Sunshine #Coming Home #Spring

"It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!"

--- Agnetha Faltskog

#Want #Behinds #This Day

"China didn't want to lose the cutting edge of technology. So the idea of having a Sina Weibo was an attempt to compete with Twitter. However, it has no soul - which is freedom of expression. Nevertheless, I think the government regrets having Sina Weibo, but they cannot shut it down. That would definitely be suicidal."

--- Ai Weiwei

#Want #Thinking #Ideas

"I never regret anything."

--- Ai Weiwei

#Regret #Never Regret #I Never Regret

"I often feel more disgust than pride about this kind of success. So there's no regret whatsoever."

--- Ai Weiwei

#Feels #Regret #Kind

"Are you living everyday so that even if the end were to come you’d have to regrets?"

--- Ai Yazawa

#Ifs #Ends #Regret

"Regret for a sinful past will remain until we truly believe that for us in Christ that sinful past no longer exists."

--- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Regret #Believe #Past

Deep, Inspirational Quotes about "Regret"