Quotes about Regret
salvation consists primarily in his beginning to sorrow earnestly over himself!
— Soren Kierkegaard
Remember, one lives only once; if it is neglected, if you do not come to suffer, if you avoid it—it is eternally irreparable
— Soren Kierkegaard
repentance and remorse. The one calls us forward.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on.
— Laurence Sterne
If i will start all over again I would chose network marketing.
— Bill Gates
What you wind up regretting aren't the things you do, it's what you don't do that you will never forgive yourself for.
— Alice Hoffman
No matter what, the past would follow around. A sorry soul that only grew heavier in each town. She couldn't run away.
— Alice Hoffman
The worst thing in the world for a mother is to leave her child. She couldn't bring herself to remember you, because if she did she'd have to leave you behind.
— Alice Hoffman
I treated you so mean. Like you was a servant. And all because Albert married you. And I didn't even want him for a husband,' she say. 'I never really wanted Albert for a husband. But just to choose me, you know?
— Alice Walker
Surely, we all can look back and see things in our lives that we wish we would have done differently. But the Bible says, "Make the most of each day."4 Yesterday is gone; tomorrow may not come. You must live for today. Start right where you are. You can't do anything about what's gone, but you can do a great deal about what remains.
— Joel Osteen
As long as you're living in regret, focused on the negative things of the past, you won't move ahead to the bright future God has in store. You need to let go of what didn't work out. Let go of your hurts and pains. Let go of your mistakes and failures. You can't do anything about the past, but you can do something about right now.
— Joel Osteen
Nothing will be sadder than to come to the end of life and realize what we could have become if we had just lived with an at-possibility mind-set instead of an at-risk mentality.
— Joel Osteen