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Quotes about Regret

I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for.
— Henry David Thoreau
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
— Henry David Thoreau
May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
— Henry David Thoreau
Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
— Henry David Thoreau
To reget deeply is to live afresh.
— Henry David Thoreau
Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.
— James Faust
Memories were not always pleasant, she decided. Memories could bring pain, too.
— Janette Oke
Stephen raised his hands and shouted, "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you!" Ezra saw lances of genuine pain stab each of the men seated at the Council table. He felt again the power of his own guilt and regret and distress. Stephen finished with, "You now have become the betrayers and murderers, you who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it!
— Janette Oke
I went blonde in high school and it was so bad. My complexion and blonde gave that orange look.
— Eva Marie
One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.
— Myles Munroe
Gratitude unleashes the freedom to live content in the moment, rather than being anxious about the future or regretting the past.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
It is a terrible thing to think of the grace that is wasted in this world
— Thomas Merton