Megan Phelps-Roper Quotes

At some point, people have to come out of the penalty box for the things they have done in the past.

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.

He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost

Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.

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

What's done can't be undone.

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

I'm not big on regret; I don't spend a lot of time on it.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past.

I can't take it back. I can't take anything back. So I don't regret it.

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

The past is the past: what can you do about it?

There's mistakes that I have made. Some chances I just threw away. Some roads I never should've taken. Been some signs I didn't see. Hearts that I hurt needlessly. Some wounds that I wish I could have one more chance to mend, but it don't make no difference: The past can't be rewritten. You get the life you're given.

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

My history is long, and not much of it is good. I can't erase it, but I'm determined not to make another mistake. Not when the stakes are high, not when it comes to you.

It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

I don't really believe in regrets.

You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'

Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.

I regret everything. But so what? At least I have cause.

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.