Avoiding Regret Quotes

We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience.

Bravery and adventure! That's the ticket! Don't sit and gather moss. Get up, get out, do what you dream of doing, and if it doesn't work, it doesn't work, and you don't need to made that particular mistake again, but at least you won't get old wondering what if you had.

The past has nothing more to teach us. Then why not let it be …. We must look ahead …. Unless we learn to forget, we will be turned into a pillar of salt.

I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.

I don't look back. I don't live my life in the rear-view mirror because, if you do, you're bound to end up wrapped around a pole somewhere.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

I don't want to make the same mistakes of being swept along with things, taking on jobs that I'm not passionate about, that I don't really believe in but that everyone says I should do.

I try very hard not to look back.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.

One thing I feel clear about is that it's important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven't really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won't look back upon my forties with regret.

Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it's too late. Say what you're feeling. Waiting is a mistake.

My father said, '10 minus one is zero.' It means that even if you do good things 10 times, it is no use when you do some bad thing once. But it doesn't mean that I think I have positive image, so I always need to be careful about what I'm doing. I don't want to frame myself.

I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took big money for nostalgia and became like an oldies act.

I try not to look back at anything I do. I avoid it like the plague.

I think we will make it. Because one quality people have - certainly Americans have it - is that they can adapt when they see necessity staring them in the face. What to avoid is what someone once called the definition of hell: truth realized too late.

I have a lot of older brothers who messed up in different ways in my mother's eyes. So I learned from all of their mistakes. I can't go into detail, but while I was growing up, I always tried to make it a goal to relieve some of the stress my mother went through.

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.

I admit to have made some bad decision in the initial stage of my career and paid the price. I can't afford to do such a mistake again.

At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

I could have made a lot of bad decisions, and some I did, but fortunately, I learned from those mistakes, and once they happened, I never really made those mistakes again.

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

I don't like having regrets, I think it's important not to.