Confucius Quotes

Learning from our mistakes is critical for improving, but even I don't have patience for ranking my regrets. Regret is a negative emotion that inhibits the optimism required to take on new challenges. You risk living in an alternative universe, where if only you had done this or that differently, things would be better. That's a poor substitute for making your actual life better, or improving the lives of others. Regret briefly, analyze and understand, and then move on, improving the only life you have.

Regret should be handled swiftly, and you shouldn't hold onto it. People spend their entire lives regretting what they didn't do and what they should've done. Hey, man, you did what you did.

Accept what you did do, and live with it.

I can't dwell on past mistakes.

I'm one of those people where, if I go back and look at it, I'm going to feel like, 'I wish I would have... ' I need to just leave it on the floor. What's done is done.

The past is past. There is no point in repeating what you did in the past.

I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.

I'm starting to think, though, that some things never get that. The replay, and all. So at some point you have to make peace with it as it is, not keep waiting for a chance to change it

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.

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about regrets because there's nothing I can do.

I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.

I truly don't believe in regret.

I think we all agree, the past is over.

I believe there were things I probably should have done differently. But I'm not going to spend a lot of time crying over spilt milk.

The past is past; what's gone on has gone on.

Certainly, there were tough times, but no, you can't go back and change it. So, why dwell on it?

I don't look back and regret anything.

You can't go back and alter the past.

Whatever happened in the past is in the past.

I can't dwell on the past. It's over, there's nothing I can do about it.

I was wrong. Those days are over and they ought to be over.

Regrets and Mistakes, they're Memories made

We only have the past that we have. Not all of our deeds were incorrect.

Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.