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Regret Quotes
37 FAMOUS QUOTES · REGRET
Regret Quotes
Read 37 famous regret quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
“I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”
Charles Dickens
“And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth.”
The Bible (Matthew 25:25)
“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
Ambrose Bierce
"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive."
Orlando Aloysius Battista
“Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”
Jeff Bezos
“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”Benjamin Franklin
“Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.”
Pythagoras
“An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.”
Publilius Syrus
“Anger begins with madness and ends in regret.”
Arabic Proverb
“Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.”
Benjamin Disraeli