Top 1200 Past Regrets Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Every decision I've made in my career was just to play, to try and get as much game-time as possible. I can't say I've got too many regrets.

There's nothing easy about winning a game in the National Football League, let alone winning a championship, things that we've done in the past. However, that's in the past.

There's a lot of regrets about last year - maybe turning up was the biggest regret about it

History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in light of the present; and we can fully understand the present only in light of the past. To enable man to understand the society of the past and to increase his mastery over the society of the present is the dual function of history.

I don't have regrets from either life or the industry. I'm happy and satisfied with life.

But what is past my help is past my care.

To be a good trader, you need to trade with your eyes open, recognize real trends and turns, and not waste time or energy on regrets and wishful thinking.

To quote Frank Sinatra, "Regrets, I've had a few / But then again, too few to mention."

If I was lying on the side of the mountain, dying, would I have any regrets? Yeah. I would regret not making films.

Instead of receding, the past actually becomes more important. That's what will happen to you. It sounds unlikely, but the past actually changes complexion as you get older.

You shouldn't have regrets. I'd say instead that I've learned a lot of lessons. Yes, I could have handled some things better. But they've also made me who I am today.

Among the conservative Greek opinion there would be no regrets that Alexander the Greek leader was invading the barbarians.

Some countries and some people are so primitively religious and so underdeveloped that they don't need a time machine to go back to the past; they are already in there, in the very distant and dark past!

I believe it's so important to love life, enjoy it for its small moments and live without regrets - life is so unpredictable.

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

I don't have any regrets. It's like, I go for what I want, I say what I want.

Our past can control today and tomorrow only to the degree we allow it. The past should not be a place where we dwell but a place from which we learn all we can and then move on.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.

The establishment of inner harmony is to be attained neither in the past nor in the future, but where the past and future meet, which is the now. When you have attained that point, neither future nor past, neither birth nor death, neither time nor space exist. It is that NOW which is liberation, which is perfect harmony, to which the men of the past and the men of the future must come.

Do what is right, and you'll have no lasting regrets. Do what is right, and put yourself on the side of truth, goodness, and the best of life.

I have no regrets. I feel very grateful for the life that I had - you know, family I live with; and I've been doing work that I love, ever since I came to Nashville.

You don't want to live in the past. Everything in life is in the future. You don't want to continue to be buried in the past.

The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance.

Although there are real hazards in saying yes to life, they are inconsequential when compared to the regrets that come with saying "no".

One of life's regrets is that you didn't always tell the truth, and now it's too late, because the truth has changed.

Whatever happened in the past is in the past.

I was just walking around like a zombie..I really had no idea what I was doing.. But the best thing that I did do was leave and get the hell out of there. I have no regrets.

Regrets are stupid; they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.

I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.

Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.

To each their own. One must live each day so that there are no regrets.

It is hard to celebrate the past in an ecumenical way, or even in a fair-minded one, apparently. The trouble with the past is not just that it's behind us, it's that it is not even over yet.

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.

People should learn that you cannot dwell in your past. One who dwells in the past hurts not only himself, but also the people around him.

Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it then the picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.

Football is what, 15 years? I want to invest 100% of my life into the game, so when it's all said and done, I don't want to have regrets.

You rarely come across the complete footballer, but Scholes is as close to it as you can get. One of my regrets is that the opportunity to play alongside him never presented itself during my career.

I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them... on face value.

I was lucky enough to play for the top three Italian clubs during the golden era of Italian football, so I have no regrets.

You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.

They always say it is better to have loved and lost and all that, so no I don't think I have any regrets, and I have always been there for all of my kids no matter what.

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.

I don't have any regrets whatsoever because it has been my life. I've been very privileged, I'm lucky and I'm still alive.

The past is not dead - it isn't even past

What's in the past is in the past... let it be, let it be. We all grow up.

I really don't have no regrets. I think that where I am in the stage of my career and in my life made me who I am today.

The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.

For the past fourteen years, it's been my job to push past my boundaries and do things I never thought I could do, which is why it's been such a fulfilling career.

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

Failure is not an option, and I always felt like I'm a man who doesn't have regrets, and I don't live with excuses. I can't take excuses.

Man down is a song about a girl who has committed a murder that she regrets and is completely remorseful about.

Well, if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes. There is no deeper meaning behind things that gives me a reason to be here.

Marriage is an effort to legalize love. It is out of fear. It is thinking about the future, about the tomorrows. Man always thinks of the past and the future, and because of this constant thinking about past and future, he destroys the present. And the present is the only reality there is. One has to live in the present. The past has to die and has to be allowed to die.

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.

You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.

The past isn't over. It isn't even past.

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.