Quotes on Regret
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck
When one door closes, another door opens; but we 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
Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures, we should put them behind us and go ahead, for vain regretting interferes with the flow of power into our own personalities.
Edith Johnson
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
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Spend time with those you love. One of these days you will say either, "I wish I had," or "I'm glad I did."
Zig Ziglar
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 Harris
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
George Eliot
It's better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
Jacki Joyner-Kersee
Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.
Tom Clancy
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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