Past Regrets Quotes:

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

- Jean Plaidy

topic: Life, Happiness, Break Up, Regret Nothing, Good Experiences

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Motivational, Courage, Regret, Past Regrets, Planning Ahead

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

- Nathan Hale

source: Before being executed as a spy by the British, 22 September 1776, in Henry Phelps Johnston 'Nathan Hale, 1776' (1914) ch. 7.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Country, Independence Day Patriotic, American Revolution

Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

- Miguel Angel Ruiz

source: "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

topic: Inspirational, Regret, Self Esteem, You Will Regret, Past Regrets

I don't regret my past, I just regret the time I've wasted on the wrong people.

- Wiz Khalifa

topic: Regret, Past, People, Past Regrets, Don't Regret Anything

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

- Fulton Oursler

topic: Moving On, Regret, Past, Life Regret, Fear Of The Future

When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator.

- Bonnie McFarlane

topic: Break Up, Encouraging, Broken Heart, Live In The Now, Life Opportunity

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

- Sivananda

topic: Inspiring, Depression, Attitude, You Will Regret, Overcoming Depression

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

topic: Positive, Fear, Moving Forward, Best Wishes, Fear Of The Future

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

- Oliver Goldsmith

topic: Wise, Regret, Lying, Past Regrets, Have No Regrets

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Time, Future, Heart, Indian Happy New Year, Past Future

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

- Tryon Edwards

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Bad Actions, I Am Sorry

Don't regret the past or fear the future. Both bring misery through self-doubt.

- Deepak Chopra

source: Deepak Chopra, Rudolph E. Tanzi (2012). “Super Brain: Unleashing the explosive power of your mind to maximize health, happiness and spiritual well-being”, p.54, Random House

topic: Regret, Past, Self, Self-doubt, Past Regrets

The only thing we can control is what we do in the present. The more we replay yesterday, the further we get from today's opportunities. And the further away we move from opportunities, the tougher the road is to get back. Opportunities never look as good coming as they do going, and they wait for no one. We need to be highly attentive to spot them. And we must be focused on our present capabilities, not past regrets.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Regret, Past Regrets, Replay

I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worried about it. I can't change it. I can't fix it. It is what it is. I'm just living.

- Ryan Sheckler

topic: Regret, Past, Steps, Past Regrets, Every Step

To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing

- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

topic: Regret, Past, Whole Life, Past Regrets

Above all, documentary must reflect the problems and realities of the present. It cannot regret the past; it is dangerous to prophesy the future. It can, and does, draw on the past in its use of existing heritages but it only does so to give point to a modern argument. In no sense is documentary a historical reconstruction and attempts to make it so are destined to failure. Rather it is contemporary fact and event expressed in relation to human associations.

- Paul Rotha

topic: Regret, Past, Reality, Past Regrets

Today, I will try to remember to regret the past. I will think of how many mistakes I have made throughout my life. I will say to myself, "If only I could go back in time and make different choices, so that my life could be the way it should have been." Then I will remind myself that I cannot.

- John S. Hall

source: "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

topic: Regret, Mistake, Past, Go Back In Time, Different Choices

Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.

- Omar Khayyam

topic: Regret, Wine, Past, Past Regrets

Career is the stringing together of opportunities and jobs. Mix in public opinion and past regrets. Add a dash of future panic and a whole lot of financial uncertainty. Career is something that fools you into thinking you are in control and then takes pleasure in reminding you that you aren't. Career is the thing that will not fill you up and will never make you truly whole.

- Amy Poehler

source: Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.169, Pan Macmillan

topic: Jobs, Regret, Past, Past Regrets

Do not regret the past. Look to the future.

- Soyen Shaku

topic: Regret, Past, Looks, Looking To The Future, Past Regrets

Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.

- Kristin Scott Thomas

topic: Regret, Past, England, Past Regrets

The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life, is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much

- Mel Gibson

topic: Spiritual, Regret, Past, Past Regrets