Niccolo Machiavelli
Political Philosopher, Historian
"it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret."
Repent quotes
Repent
52 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent."
Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old."
Giovanni Boccaccio
Poet, Novelist
"It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly."
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"The offender, who repents, is not yet lost."
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"Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives."
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"A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it."
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"Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest."
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"God never repents of what He has first resolved upon."
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"Beware! Don't allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, Later I will repent and ask God's forgiveness."
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"It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent"
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"Let your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting."
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"By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated."
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"Repent or be damned! If you have already repented, please disregard this notice."
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"Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent."
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"To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right."
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"Whichever you do, you will repent it."
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"I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame."
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"If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul."
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"On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone."
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"He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time."
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