“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future.”
Fulton Oursler

“I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.”
Rita Mero

“One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.”
Oscar Wilde

“I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I’d just been myself.”
Brittany Renée

“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”
Mercedes Lackey

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”
Sydney Smith

“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”
Jim Rohn

“Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.”
Jonathan Larson

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
Alexander Graham Bell

“Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.”
Victoria Holt

“Regret is insight that comes a day too late.”
Unknown

“A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.”
Proverb

“I have no regrets. I wouldn’t have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.”
Ingrid Bergman

“There is nothing to regret – either for those who go or for those who are left behind.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.”
Charles Dickens

“Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it is only good for wallowing in.”
Katherine Mansfield

“I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.”
Lucille Ball