"Regret or remorse of the wrong we have done should be in a positive spirit of changing, turning towards God with humility."
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"My greatest regret is selling my company."
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"Live your life like you're 80 looking back on your teenager years. You know if your dad calls you at eight in the morning and asks if you want to go out for breakfast. As a teenager you're like no, I want to sleep. But as an eighty year old looking back you have that breakfast with your dad. It just little things like that, that helped me when I was a teenager in terms of making choices you won't regret."
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"Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of."
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"Most of us fear reaching the end of our life regretting moments when we didn't speak up, say I love you, or say I'm sorry."
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"Don't ever regret being honest. Period."
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"A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors."
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"You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business."
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"My aim in life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life... looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, 'Oh, the pictures I might have made!'"
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"We're all haunted in one way or another, are we not? If not by spirits, then by our own demons and regrets."
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"Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name; And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt; Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay."
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"Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power. We must snatch the present moment, and employ it well, without too much solicitude for the future, and content ourselves with reflecting that our part is performed. He that waits for an opportunity to do much at once, may breathe out his life in idle wishes, and regret, in the last hour, his useless intentions and barren zeal."
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"I don't regret it, you know. I would do it all again. Children are our hope for the future." THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, said Death. "What does it contain, then?" ME."
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"My greatest accomplishment is succeeding in life, and I owe that to my family and twenty years in the military. I don't regret leaving the farm and ranch for the Army. Although I may have been a disappointment to my father, I achieved more than he could ever dream of in his short life."
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"How can you have any regret when everything worked out fine? But why I think it worked out fine is due to the lessons I learned along the way. And one of those involves listening to experts."
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"It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes over the last 24 years, I find myself in the position of saying that the band has broken up."
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"I don't believe in regret."
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"There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said."
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"When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets."
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"You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear."
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