Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Regret Quotes
AcceptanceConsequencesMemoryPerseveranceRegret No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
Child DevelopmentPresenceRegretValue Of Time I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.
DisciplinePersonal GrowthRegretWork EthicYouth I was a very serious teenager at that time and I considered the work to be the most important thing and I concentrated on that I was a bit goody goody I didn't fool around at all, which is a bit of a shame, I think I've missed on a lot of fun, but I've made up for it later.
CreativityPersonal GrowthRegretSelf-Improvement If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.
CourageDeterminationPerseveranceRegretSelf-awareness The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.
ChoicesDisciplineGrowthPainRegret We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
CautionEnvironmentalismHuman ImpactNatureRegret Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee.
ConvenienceConvictionIntegrityRegret People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
DisappointmentLeadershipRegretUnfulfillment Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.
AmbitionContributionPrideReflectionRegret When I look back on what I did for the Left, I'm in a small way quite proud of some of it - I only wish I'd done more.
ConsequenceGuidanceMissing OpportunitiesRedemptionRegret Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
CourageHonorLifeRegretYouth Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
InnocenceRegretSelf ReflectionWisdom I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
ConflictFearPersistenceRegretRevenge If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge.
AmbitionAuthenticityCompromiseRegretSelf-awareness I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I'm sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret.
GrowthPrioritiesRegretSelf ReflectionTime Management I'm definitely conscious of time. I already waste so much of it, just on a flight. I look back to when I was 13, and I wish I had stuck with my piano studies.
EmotionRegretRenewalTransformation Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Emotional StruggleLifeMemoryReflectionRegret He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
RegretSelf ReflectionShame Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.
AccountabilityQuality of WorkRegret I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
