1. “Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.” – Mason Cooley
2. “Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.” – Victoria Holt
3. “Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in.” – Katherine Mansfield
4. “Regrets are the tears of choices not made and of good deeds left undone.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
5. “Regret is an unavoidable result of any loss, for in loss we lose the tomorrow that we needed to make right our yesterday or today.” – Gerald Lawson Sittser
6. “Regret is an excuse for people who have failed.” – Ned Vizzini
7. “Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.” – William O’Rourke
8. “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” – Coco Chanel
9. “We are all human and we make mistakes. Don’t let regret eat you alive. Be sorry, learn from it, and move on.” – Sonya Parker
10. “Regret is an emotion that has never served me well.” – Victoria Schwab
11. “You can’t change your past, but you can ruin your present by worrying about your future.” – Unknown
12. “Regret is not when you could not finish what you started but regret is when you do not start what you could have finished.” – Unknown
13. “The only things I regret, and the only things I’ll ever regret are things I didn’t do. In the end, that’s what we mourn.” – Unknown
14. “The only thing you should ever regret in life are the risks you didn’t take.” – Unknown
15. “If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.” – Shannon L. Alder
16. “Regret is a form of punishment itself.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
17. “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” – Lucille Ball
- “Regret is not proactive. It is not about action. It is about feeling sorry for yourself.” – Anonymous
- “Regret can be a strong motive in anyone’s life if you let it.” – Robin Hobb
- “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I’m content.” – William Shatner
- “Regret doesn’t remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.” – Kathryn Schulz
23. “It’s not what we did that we regret, it’s what we didn’t do that we regret.” – Unknown
24. “Regret is the beclouding of the mind, and not its chastisement.” – William Shakespeare
25. “The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins
- “You can’t change what’s done, you can’t go back in time, but you can choose to move on and be happy.” – Unknown
- “Regret is often greater than fear of failure.” – Unknown
- “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers
29. “Regret is the longing for life’s might-have-beens.” – Unknown
30. “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.” – Unknown
31. “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 J. Harris
32. “The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.” – Roy T. Bennett
33. “Regret is an unsettling emotion because it makes us confront the possibility that our past was less than perfect.” – Emily Ruskovich
34. “It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.” – Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- “Regret is a powerful emotion, but it can be an anchor that keeps us stuck in the past.” – Darren Johnson
- “Regret is the thing we should fear most.” – Anonymous
- “Regret is a fine conductor of fear.” – Emily St. John Mandel
- “Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been.” – Hilary Clinton
39. “Regret is an emotion I’ve tried to avoid, like pinching your fingers in a door.” – Adam Zagajewski
40. “You can’t change your past, but you can learn from it and use it to shape your future.” – Unknown
These quotes offer various perspectives on regret and the importance of learning from our experiences and moving forward in life.