Quotes about Regret

Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.

Memories were not always pleasant, she decided. Memories could bring pain, too.

Stephen raised his hands and shouted, "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you!" Ezra saw lances of genuine pain stab each of the men seated at the Council table. He felt again the power of his own guilt and regret and distress. Stephen finished with, "You now have become the betrayers and murderers, you who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it!

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.

Gratitude unleashes the freedom to live content in the moment, rather than being anxious about the future or regretting the past.

It is a terrible thing to think of the grace that is wasted in this world

In a 1977 interview with Christianity Today, Billy Graham said, "One of my great regrets is that I have not studied enough. I wish I had studied more and preached less. People have pressured me into speaking to groups when I should have been studying and preparing.

Unlived life is a destructive, irresistible force that works softly but inexorably.

Youth is wasted on the young.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.