Read here the best inspiring quotes about regret if you are thinking about your past mistakes.
Why do you need to read regret quotes? Because… We often become sad and worried by thinking about what has happened in the past. We start to regret that we should not have done that work. By remembering the mistakes of the past, again and again, we also waste our present.
Inspiring Regret Quotes
Inspiring regret quotes will help you to get out of regret, to enjoy your present moment.
Quotes to not wasting your time & energy
1. “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” ― Roy T. Bennett
2. “You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.” ― Nina LaCour
3. “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
Quotes to be what you want, not what others
4. “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” ― Shannon L. Alder
5. “My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.” ― Woody Allen
6. “Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart.” ― Jude Watson
Quotes to taking action towards your dream
7. “Every step towards your dream today is a step away from your regret tomorrow.” ― Steve Maraboli
Quotes about making victories without knowing
8. “The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte
Regret Quotes to work before you regret
9. “The real regrets in life are the risks you didn’t take.” ― Habeeb Akande
10. “Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven’t done.” ― Chad Michael Murray
11. “You can’t regret the life you didn’t lead.” ― Junot Díaz
12. “I do not regret the things I’ve done, but those I did not do.” ― Rory Cochrane
13. “The only things you regret are the things you don’t do.” ― Michael Curtiz
Regret Quotes to ask for help if you need
14. “The only mistake you can make is not asking for help.” ― Sandeep Jauhar
Regret Quotes to not thinking much about past
15. “Regrets of the past can be turned into seeds to grow a more positive future or unlearned, doomed to repeat the same.” ― Tambré Bryant
16. “Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.” ― L. Ron Hubbard
17. “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
18. “I think regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past.” ― Marlon Brando
Regret Quotes to never miss an opportunity
19. “Every opportunity missed is an opportunity for regret.” ― Karl Kloppenborg
20. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” ― John Wooden
Quotes to move on
21. “It’s better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.” ― Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Quotes to be happy
22. “I regret those times when I’ve chosen the dark side. I’ve wasted enough time not being happy.” ― Jessica Lange
Quotes to improve yourself
23. “Regret doesn’t remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.” ― Kathryn Schulz
24. “We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.” ― Lucy Maud Montgomery
25. “I don’t regret a single decision of mine. Even if I made mistakes, they helped me evolve.” ― Taapsee Pannu
Best Regret Quotes
26. “Living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.” ― Jodi Picoult
27. “No pain is unbearable except that of regret.” ― Jan Cox Speas
28. “Sensitive people either love deeply or they regret deeply. There really is no middle ground because they live in passionate extremes.” ― Shannon L. Alder
29. “Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.” ― Benjamin Disraeli
30. “We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.” ― Fulton Oursler
31. “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
32. “Speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.” ― Laurence J. Peter
33. “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” ― Nathan Hale
34. “I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.” ― Drew Barrymore
35. “To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.” ― Bodhidharma
36. “My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.” ― Truman Capote
37. “Regret leads to negativity, and negativity kills creativity.” ― Carol Channing
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