Regret Quotations

In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else.

Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.

Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.

If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.

You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.

Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

I used to suffer from a lot of regret while touring. Regret at having to leave certain places, people and situations, or just a beautiful day.

I don't regret what I've been through. I've had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I've been so blessed that I could never say, 'I wish this didn't happen.' It's part of who I am. There's nothing in my life that's so ugh.

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.

The point isn’t to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.

I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.

You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.

The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

I have no regrets. I had an amazing surrogate who carried my son for me. I am so grateful to her. I can even say I am grateful for having cancer. I was always meant to be a mom, but if I didnt have cancer, I never would have had Zev. I would have had a kid, but not Zev, and I want Zev - tantrums and all.

If you don't learn from your mistakes, then they become regrets.

I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing

There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.

Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven't are either liars or narcissists

Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?

Despite everything, I have few regrets. I have crammed a lot of living into my time.

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

I'm never afraid to try something if I think it's funny. And I know I'll regret it if I don't.

I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man ... cannot be exempt from the common destiny.

A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.

If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires there shall be no regrets.

I don't regret anything and what I have done in my period of my life. Everything happens for a reason, and that's why I am here.

You can get stuck in the trap of reading your YouTube comments all the time. Sometimes I regret it. Not everyone is going to love you. And for some reason, stand-up has this thing where everyone thinks they can do it. So everyone thinks they're an expert.

I shall have less cause to regret the carrying my intended purpose into effect, foreseeing that you may immediately fill with advantage, the vacancy which will presently happen.

I don't really have any regrets because if I choose not to do something there is usually a very good reason. Once I've made the decision I don't view it as a missed opportunity, just a different path.

I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion.

If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.

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

The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it.

Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.

I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them.

A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather's life was that he died empty, because he accomplished everything he wanted, with no regrets. I think that, along with leaving a legacy, would be the greatest sign of success.

I gave everything in my career so I have no regrets at all.

Everything I turn up to, I think I'm going to enjoy. I never look back, so I don't have regrets.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

It's pathetic to have regrets about fashion. Things to do with my life, yes, I have regrets there.

I have no regrets about being 'Doctor Who'. It was the greatest thing that ever happened to me.

I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare.

I'd like to be remembered as someone that lived life by his own rules with no regrets.

I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.

One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.

Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.

When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.

I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about.

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

I don't regret anything I've ever done. I only wish I could have done more.

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself.

I love meeting 'the Odd Man Out' - like fans of 'Baywatch' who regret, as I do, that Tower 12 Productions didn't put nearly as much energy into writing and directing the show as they put into photographing and editing it.

I don't believe in regrets; I believe your future is in your tomorrows.

That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.

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.

I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.

While I have some regrets that this is my last opportunity to deliver a State of the State address, I appreciate and am humbled by the opportunities this great state has given me.

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well - there's another notch on my experience belt.

I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.

I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during 'Captain Blood.' I thought he was absolutely smashing for three solid years, but he never guessed. Then he had one on me but nothing came of it. I'm not going to regret that; it could have ruined my life.

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.

There is nothing I've been through in my life that I regret, or that I would go back and change. I feel like everything that happened - personally and professionally - I went through for a reason, and I learned from those things.

I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

I don't have regret about things I've done that are successful or not successful or what people perceive or don't know or whatever. I just know for me it had to be the right choice at the time. Sometimes that choice is just about getting a job.

I don't have a lot of regrets in my life.

I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for a year. That didn't really work for me. That isn't fair to make these life-forms and then disappear.

I have no regrets. I don't believe in looking back. What I am proudest of? Working really hard... and achieving as much as I could.

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

I have no regrets because I did everything by the book.

I've always been pleased with the investments I've made with my friend Albert Frere and I regret not having followed him more, because I would have been a lot richer.

I lived in the States from 1996 till 2000. I attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1997. But I wasn't the most hard-working student. I rarely went to school. At that time, I seriously doubted that you could learn creativity in school. Music isn't something you can just learn from other people. Sometimes I regret missing classes.

I always say that things are meant to be and everything happens for a reason, so I don't have any regrets.

I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.

I have no regrets. I've got my health.

Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.

I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.

Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people who have subsequently forgotten all about it. Meanwhile, on my shelves sit many orphaned books loaned to me over the years by trusting, innocent souls - some as long ago as the Seventies.

I did it my way, and I have no regrets when I look back on my career that it was just a big focus for me.

I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization.