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.

Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They’re its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.

I passed under an arch out of that region of slabs and columns, and wandered through the open country; sometimes following the visible road, but sometimes leaving it curiously to tread across meadows where only...

If you think you can’t make time to invest into your life at once now, you will be compelled to make time to count your regrets one by one later. By all means, you’ll make...

I have no regrets about my life.

we lived depravityand called it truth, silencingour dreaming, andour love, discardingthings holy.

If I didn’t like someone, I wouldn’t want him calling me up when I was dying. I wouldn’t want them having regrets that they didn’t talk to me.

Malphas surveyed the women’s bodies with utter disgust and sorrowuntil he realized Tabitha was still alive. He knelt by her side and cradled her head tenderly. “Tabby… I’m so sorry”Grimacing she opened her eyes as...

[When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted...

Your ability to discern key people in your life and organization before you bring them in saves you lots of time, trouble, and regrets… Watch out!!!

There’s a difference between thinking you can’t be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.

Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you’re the one keeping them, I’ll be the one feeling better.

I’ve found the things I’ve regretted most in my life are the things I wanted to do but never had the courage to try. And I’m beginning to think I don’t want you to become...

May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had.

You know what I regret the most?” Trinity says, her voice just above a whisper.I don’t answer. All I can think about is how crappy it is that my fourteen-year-old sister already has regrets.

Neglected dreams become regrets.

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.