We don’t have to live life with regret! No matter how many times you fail you need to continue looking ahead and continue making strides. May these quotes inspire you, so you can cherish every moment and seize every opportunity.

“What’s done is done.” –William Shakespeare

“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.” –Oscar Wilde

“Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.”
–Sivananda

“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations – one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it – you will regret both.”
–Soren Kierkegaard

“This is the book I never read ~~ These are the words I never said ~~ This is the path I’ll never tread ~~ These are the dreams I’ll dream instead”
–Annie Lennox

“A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams”
–Yiddish Proverb

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
–Alexander Graham Bell

“Don’t let the past steal your present.” –Terri Guillemets

“Old times” never come back and I suppose it’s just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that’s better.
–George E. Woodberry

“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.” –George Sand

“People so seldom say I love you And then it’s either too late or love goes. So when I tell you I love you, It doesn’t mean I know you’ll never go, Only that I wish you didn’t have to.”–Anonymous

“I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end. –Drew Barrymore”

“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future.” –Fulton Oursler

“Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.” –Jonathan Larson

“Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.” –Robert E. Lee

“A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.” –Charles Goodyear

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.” –Joseph Campbell

“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.”
–Rita Mero

“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.” –Mercedes Lackey

“Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.” –Miguel Angel Ruiz

“One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead” –Oscar Wilde

“There is nothing to regret – either for those who go or for those who are left behind” –Eleanor Roosevelt

“I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I’d just been myself.” –Brittany Renée

“If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.” -­-Anonymous