I am deeply influenced by regret minimization framework of Jeff Bezos, the founder if Amazon.com. His idea is simple. You should never do things or do only those things so that, 10 years down the line, when you look back, you have the least number of regrets. Think about it for sometime. Think about the past 5 years in your life. What are the things that you regretted doing. What are the things that you regret not having done at all? For me, I have a lot more things that I regret having never done than having done, and ever since I read about this philosophy, my life have revolved around doing things that I know I will wish I did them, when I look back. You will at least have stories to tell your grand children. Would you rather say that you were just a boring young bloke while the grandfathers of their friends tell exciting stories that happened back in the early 2000s?
We now bring to you some of the most inspiring quotes about regret that will help reinforce this philosophy of regret minimization. Feel free to comment on your favorite regret quotes, rate other quotes or submit your own in the user section below.
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.”
~Oliver Goldsmith
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
~ John Barrymore
I’ve no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions.
~Ron Moody
Only in your imagination can you revise.
~Fay Wray
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
~Jim Rohn
Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden.
~T. S. Eliot
Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.
~ Oscar Wilde
A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference.
~Unknown
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been!
~John Greenleaf Whittier,
It is human nature to want to go back and fix things or change things that we regret.
~John Gray
If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
~Mercedes Lackey
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
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
~Ambrose Bierce
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.
~Arthur Brisbane
I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
~Samuel Butler
Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it.
~David Mamet
One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.
~Agatha Christie
I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
~Lucille Ball
It’s not what your are, it’s what you don’t become that hurts.”
~Oscar Levant
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
~P B Shelley
Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it is only good for wallowing in.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
~George Halas
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
~Arthur Miller
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
~Chinese Proverb
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
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
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