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“Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.”
Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.
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“If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.”
Source : A. C. Grayling (2003). “Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age”, p.20, Oxford University Press, USA
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“Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.”
Source : "Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar". Book by Marshall Brown, 1899.
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“I dropped my phone on the floor and let the pain assail me. I'd given my heart away to someone who didn't want it. Even knowing that, I didn't regret it. I just wanted him to want me. I just wanted him to love me too.”
Source : Abbi Glines (2013). “While It Lasts”, p.239, Simon and Schuster
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“There's no regrets for me.”
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“There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small, daily joys. The bright sunshine on the breakfast table; the smell of the air at dusk; the sound of the clock ticking; the light rains that start gently after midnight; the hour when the family come home; Sunday-evening tea before the fire! I have never missed one moment of beauty, not even taken it for granted. Spring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways.”
Source : Agnes Sligh Turnbull, “No Regrets”
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“Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.”
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“For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to my mind were the most aggressive, and managed to keep their form in spite of their questionable discipline. Out of the line they were undoubtedly difficult to handle, but once in it they loved a fight. They were a curious mixture of toughness and sentimentality...”
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“Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'”
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“There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in moral discipline and the ability to do what is right.”
Source : Alan Keyes' Speech at the California Republican Party Convention in Sacramento, California, www.keyesarchives.com. February 27, 1999. 
