Regret & Remorse Quotes

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

You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever.

Wayne Dyer

Make it a rule in life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing in.

Katherine Mansfield

Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs.

Charles Dickens

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Edward George BulwerLytton

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.

King Charles I

Let's not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that's gone.

William Shakespeare