To Not Learn From And Overcome Your Regrets Can Be A Regret Itself.

Thoughts And Observations about Regrets:

“Life is about choices. Some we regret, some we’re proud of. Some will haunt us forever. … we are what we chose to be.” Graham Brown – U.S. attorney, author.

“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 – U.S. author.

“When it comes to regrets, it’s the dreams we didn’t go after that haunt us — the business we didn’t start, the book we didn’t write, the love we let slip away. When pursuing your dreams you won’t remember the bruises and failures, only the person you become.” Shane Parrish – U.S. author, blogger.

“If you don’t set goals, you can’t regret not reaching them.”?Yogi Berra – U.S. professional MLB player manager, coach.

“I don’t want to be 80-years-old and in a quiet moment of reflection, thinking back over my life, and cataloging a bunch of major regrets.” Jeff Bezos - U.S. entrepreneur.

“Regret doesn’t come from failure. It comes from giving up.” Mel Robbins - U.S. writer, podcast host.

“The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.” Mick Jagger – U.K. musician, singer, songwriter.

“I live in the present because the past is regret, and the future is anxiety.” ?Patrice Evra – French soccer player.

“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 – New Zealand author.

“Never look back in regret – move on to the next thing.”?Richard Branson – U.K. entrepreneur.

“You should never regret anything in life. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.” ?Victoria Holt – U.K author.

“Don't regret your mistakes. You'll always make mistakes. The better you are, the less mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to thoroughly analyze your mistakes.” James Altucher er – U.S. entrepreneur, author, podcaster.

“Regret is a tough but fair teacher. To live without regret is to believe you have nothing to learn, no amends to make, and no opportunity to be braver with your life.” Brené Brown – U.S. academic, podcaster.

"Regrets are not inherited. Regrets are those elements of life that seek to undermine our enthusiasm and our willingness to assume a life filled with new discoveries and the attainment of goals. Let not your regrets be your undoing but instead your vehicle to learn from what did not work."? Byron Pulsifer – Canadian author.

“I always try to do as much as I can do. I'm never a person that does not enough, because I'd regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn't work.” Tom Brady – U.S. NFL player.

“Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.” Kathryn Schulz – U.S. journalist, author.

“Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.” Don Miguel Ruiz – Mexican author.

“Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher.” Marilyn Ferguson – U.S. author.

“I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done in life, any choice that I’ve made. But I’m consumed with regret for the things I didn’t do, the choices I didn’t make, the things I didn’t say. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to. ‘What if . . .’ ‘If only . . .’ ‘I wonder what would have . . .’ You will never, never know, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days.”?Trevor Noah?-?South African comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, television host.

“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 – U.S. journalist.

“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”?Haruki Murakami – Japanese writer.

“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us.” Joseph Campbell – U.S. author.

“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”??Jonathan Safran Foer – U.S. author.

“Until we have finally accepted the fact that there is nothing we can do to change the past, our feelings of regret and remorse and bitterness will prevent us from designing a better future with the opportunity that is before us today.”?Jim Rohn – U.S. entrepreneur, author.

“If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.”?Thomas Sowell – U.S. economist.

“Regret, remorse, sorrow all emotions that can result in negative feelings. Only you can change your emotions to positive ones, you cannot change the past but you can change the future. … Don’t live your life regretting yesterday. Live your life so tomorrow you won’t regret today.” Catherine Pulsifer – Canadian author.

“I don’t believe in regrets. Regrets just keep you chained to the past. You gotta make peace with the past. There’s no reason to regret it. You’ve done it, just make peace with it. … People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.” ?Bob Dylan – U.S. singer, musician, songwriter.

“The wiser you get the more absorbed you are in the moment. Fools live in the future. The wise live now.” Maxime Lagacé – Canadian hockey player.

?“It's better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.” Jackie Joyner Kersee – U.S. athlete.

“The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.” Henri Frederic Amiel - Swiss philosopher, poet.

“When people look back on their lives, it is the things they have not done that generate the greatest regret. ...People’s actions may be troublesome initially; it is their inactions that plague them most with long-term feelings of regret. … A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets.”?Gary Keller – U.S. author.

“Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. if it’s bad, it’s experience.” ?Eleanor Alice Burford – U.K. writer.

“I don’t regret any of the decisions I’ve made in my life. Because with every choice I’ve made, I’ve learned something new.”?Ariana Grande – U.S. singer, songwriter, actress.

“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.”?Sean Covey – U.S. business executive, author.

“A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference.”?Grenville Kleiser – Canadian/U.S. author.

“When you give it your all and it doesn’t work out, you are broken for a while but it passes because you have no regrets. You gave it everything you had.” ?Shane Parrish – U.S. author.

"We cannot always change what has happened to us, but we can change how we react and how we live in the future. Living with no regrets is living successfully."?Dr. Ellen Taricani?– U.S. academic.

“Living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.” ?Jodi Picoult – U.S. author.

“The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.” Norman Cousins – U.S. journalist, author.

“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”?Mercedes Lackey – U.S. author.

“Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.” Maya Angelou – U.S. poet.

“Never regret anything that made you smile. … Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ?Mark Twain – U.S. author.

“My old high school football coach used to say … If you give it everything you have and you fail you’ll have one night of bad sleep but if you don’t give it everything you have and you fail you will think about how you should have for the rest of your life.” Shane Parrish – U.S. author.

?“To live without regret is to believe you have nothing to learn, no amends to make, and no opportunity to be braver with your life.”??Brene Brown – U.S. academic, podcaster.

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”?H. Jackson Brown, Jr. – U.S. author.