"Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets." Author Unknown, from Dreams

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

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow." Chinese Proverb

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. Robert Brault

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

Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future. William de Witt Hyde, from Grammar

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

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. Jim Rohn

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

Looking back, I have this to regret...that too often when I loved, I did not say so. David Grayson
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs. Charles Dickens

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. George Sand

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

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

From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance. Italian Proverb

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. John Barrymore

It is not the experience of Today that drives a person mad, it is the remorse or bitterness of something which happened Yesterday and the dread of what Tomorrow may bring. Author Unknown, from Two Days We Should Not Worry

Never look back and regret, look back and smile at what you have learned. Michelle C. Ustaszeski

When tomorrow comes this day will be gone forever, but I shall hold something which I have traded for it. It may be no more than a memory, but if it is a worthy one I shall not regret the price. Author Unknown, from A New Day

I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened. Yanni

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. Victoria Holt

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

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
Never despair, keep pushing on! Sir Thomas Lipton

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

Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good. William O'Rourke

Take care that you don't come to know, a thing that's called regret. Wish Belkin, from Courage

Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is. George Carlin, from How To Stay Young

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