The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One can have many regrets in life, but they are temporary. There are lessons to learn from every mistake.
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.
Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own.
A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.
When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.