Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They’re its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.Anna Quindlen
I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.Mia Hamm
The great majority of men attend to what is necessary only when they feel a need for it—the precise time when it is too late.Napoleon Bonaparte
You need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much... We get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.Haruki Murakami
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.Katherine Mansfield
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.Mark Twain
The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.Benjamin Franklin
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
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 J. Harris
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.John Greenleaf Whittier
O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I should have known growing up and not having any money ever that I should have kept every dollar that I had.Heidi Montag
I have plenty of investments that I wish I'd never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment.Sam Altman
Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?Earl Wilson
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.Margaret Mead
People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.Katy Perry
I had been a Maoist, and then when the Gang of Four was overthrown, I was completely distraught. I was bedridden for three weeks; it was a very painful experience for me. Not only because I had been wrong, but because I felt really embarrassed that I had been lecturing and pontificating with such self-confidence.Norman Finkelstein
I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.Charles Schwab
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.J. Paul Getty
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.Swami Sivananda
I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.Nikki Giovanni
If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.Henny Youngman
I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.Robert Smith
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.Harriet Beecher Stowe
There is nothing I can do to undo what I did. I can only say again how sorry I am to those I let down and then strive to go forward with a greater sense of humility and purpose, and with gratitude to those who stood with me during a very difficult chapter in my life.David Petraeus
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.Henry David Thoreau
I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.Queen Latifah