Most failures are one-time costs. Most regrets are recurring costs. The pain of inaction stings longer than the pain of incorrect action.

Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.

The future is now! Don’t make that second pass you into regrets.

I’m not really one for regrets.

As much as he loathed himself for it, he couldn’t stop thinking about Abigail. If he hadn’t met her, he might be married to someone else. Some nice woman who didn’t throw dishes at him....

I’m a selfish, selfish bitch. Because all I can think about, is whether I’ll regret it in three hours, when we walk out of here, and I never know, not even once, what it’s like...

Life is too short for regrets.

What are we going to do, Ayden?” she whispered, glaring up at me.”I don’t know,” I confessed. “But how about we burn that bridge when we get there?””I thought it was ‘cross’ that bridge?”I lightly...

Personally of course I regret everything.Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need,not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy,not a doubt, not a trust, not a...

She could have lived every minute she’d had with him better. She should have always spoken the best words she could to him.

…a noisy parade of memories that frustrate her because of the way they play themselves out. These memories-it feels like she’s back there in the moment, like she has the moment to do over and...

I don’t have long-standing regrets; they pass as I see how things are meant to be.

Peter denied Jesus; Judas betrayed Jesus. The bad news was that both of them fell off the track and were both filled with regrets, remorse and anguish for their mischievous behaviours. However it was only...

Live your life so you don´t have to have any regrets when you throw your 70 year old birthday party

I am constantly reminded that we are a products of the choices we make

Would ‘sorry’ have made any difference? Does it ever? It’s just a word. One word against a thousand actions.

You could continue to repress and think about the life you could have had or you can take what you want from life and see that the world finds that person infinitely more irresistible…

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

regret is mostly caused by not havingdone anything.

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything – that is the definition of conviction.

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

Regrets serve their purpose. You’ll see.

I looked after that Dudley family for too long, over six years. His daddy would take him to the garage and whip him with a rubber hose-pipe trying to beat the girl out a that...

The only thing worse than regretting the things you’ve done is regretting the things you didn’t do.

When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better–her husband; money; his books. But for her own part she...

It takes time, or does time take it?

I don’t have any regrets.

One of my main regrets in life is giving considerable thought to inconsiderate people.

Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, when you say to somebody “I love you”, when you are considering your children, when you...

Whenever you lose someone you love, you have those lingering regrets. You wish you could hug them or kiss them or talk to them…I don’t want those regrets

This worldthat was our homefor a brief spellnever brought us anythingbut pain and grief;its a shame that not one of our problemswas ever solved.We departwith a thousand regretsin our hearts.

In the long-run, regrets consist less of bad choices and more of choices not made at all. Little do we realize, those were choices too.

Withdraw from talking about leaving someone behind. Just rekindle the friendship and love while you still have that moment together.

No matterwhat he did to make Claire’s life better or show her he’d changed, these memories would always linger in the recesses of his mind. For the rest of his life, he’d know what he’d...

Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.

I could have could haved, but instead I did have. Is there any other way to love?

Naturally—and why should I not admit this—I have occasionally wondered to myself how things might have turned out in the long run…. I only speculate this now because in the light of subsequent events, it...

In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.

The only thing equal to the enormity of his want was his regret.

Regrets will eat a man up. My pa told me that. Said you should always try to make your peace when you can, ’cause no man knows what the Lord has in store for us...

I have no regrets because I did everything by the book.

Mamma says if we stay so focused on our past failings, we won’t be able to move beyond them and learn what we need to know.

On my solemn oath, Edmund, I’d gladly face not having an acre of land to call my own, nor a penny in the bank, I’d be willing to have no home but the poorhouse in...

Did not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

Acknowledge yourself for your greatness and your instincts and know that you always do your best even when the outcomes don’t appear that way.

One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.

In life, you would regret definitely, either you become good person or the bad one, but being good is better to regret for”-Samar Sudha

I can’t take back the past, but I can fight for the future.

Who said death is dead? He’s fully alive, traveling around the world, throwing shadows and soaking in the sun. Visiting the young and old; placing bets and dicing regrets, for the worse or a better...

Many of our efforts to intentionally craft and subsequently force our limited vision on life has more often than not resulted in some degree of cataclysm or schism or division or any number of other...