Regret Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, Patrick Mahomes, Shania Twain, Michael Pollan, Alberto Santos-Dumont and many others.
When you go into a game, and there’s something that was drawn up the way it was supposed to be drawn up, and you missed the throw or the catch, as a receiver, it’s something where you feel bad about that. You can always regret just missing it, but as a football player, you have to move on to the next play.
If you draft me, you’ll never regret it.
So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can’t be controlled.
Relationships have been a way of life and I don’t regret being in one ever.
When I grew up, I had everything you could ask for, and I kind of didn’t appreciate it. Because it was a given for me. Everybody that grew up in my neighborhood was going to have an opportunity to go to college. I took that for granted. I always regret that.
The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.
You have to grow. If not you’re then living in regret and you’re living in the past and you’re not progressing forward. And I learned the mistakes that I made and they made me stronger.
I don’t have any regrets, really. What I got out of the sport was more than I ever dreamed was possible. We took some good runs at the Olympics, but the closest we got was third in the Canadian trials. But I can’t ever say I regret that, because I loved the career we had. And for me, that was enough.
When you are young in this world, you believe that the class of deductive truths about social matters is larger than it turns out to be. […] I have discovered, to my infinite regret, that most of the serious debates over the basic principles of any political order have an irreducible empirical content.
People always tell me I’m going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?
Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair?
I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are.
I think the only regret I have is not to have opened my eyes sooner to aspects of life like the relationship of man with nature and animals.
I regret to say that during the first act of this, I fell so soundly asleep that the gentleman who brought me piled up a barricade of overcoat, hat, stick, and gloves between us to establish a separation in the eyes of the world, and went into an impersonation of A Young Man Who Has Come to the Theater Unaccompanied.
If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
I got a regret: That I started acting so late. I was 27, and guys who start at 18 or so, there’s this kinda continuity of friendships they form in the profession by startin’ young, I’ve never had that.
A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?
When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I played until I was 18, and although I found it nerve-racking to play solo, I loved playing in an orchestra. When I left school I didn’t carry on with it, which I regret.
I just wish, maybe, that I’d started conducting earlier. I was about 40 when I started. Apart from that I don’t really have any regrets. Is that bad?
Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences of sin. Remorse and regret cannot compensate for sin….though sins can be forgiven immediately – the consequences can last a lifetime
I’m the kind of person who would rather rock in my rocking chair when I’m old and regret a few things that I did than to sit there and regret that I never tried.
This thing you carry inside you, I don’t know what it is. I don’t know where you got it. But Harry, the past is the past. You are alive today. That is all that matters. You must remember, because it is who you are, but as it is who you are, you must never, ever regret. To regret your past is to regret your soul.
I don’t regret any steps that I take in life.
That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly be inside the most inner part of the most inner life of a person. What does it feel like there, and what are the regrets and sensations and longings, and what is the music of it?
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
My greatest accomplishment is succeeding in life, and I owe that to my family and twenty years in the military. I don’t regret leaving the farm and ranch for the Army. Although I may have been a disappointment to my father, I achieved more than he could ever dream of in his short life.
… You are the closest I will ever come to heaven, either here on Earth or in the afterlife, and I will not regret it, not even at the cost of your tears. So I go to my grave an unrepentant sinner, I’m afraid. There is no use in mourning one such as I, dearest… –Simon to Lucy in a letter before the last duel.
I didn’t know, at 22, that regret is useless. If I could go back and change something – give myself some big break, pass along some secret information, reassure myself that most things would, in fact, work out – I don’t think I would.
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.
This is my greatest regret – that my music is not being played, and more people aren’t seeing Chubby Checker. That’s very painful for me. Many nights, I have tears in my eyes about that.
Regret is a toxin that I try not to allow in my body.
A significant regret is that I was not as good a father as I would have ideally liked to be. I was not, I think, a bad father.
As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.
It was a counter-attack and I had to take him down. I don’t regret it and I would do it again if I had to.
The only thing I regret is not winning the Premier League with Liverpool. I’ll never know how that feels and experience the reaction of the city, as I did after Istanbul. It hurts because I know the people want the league title more than anything.
Of course, there are days when you remember that what if I had continued irrespective of hits or flops, maybe I would have been in different place. I agree and accept that, but there is no need to regret because the 8-9 years I was away from cinema has also given me depth and changed me as a person.
I never regret anything. I always said that when I’m old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn’t do; and now I’m old, and I don’t regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I’m still having it.
I regret the things I didn’t do, not what I did.
The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths.
The U.S. government is selling $30 billion worth of fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. Yeah, it’s part of a new initiative called, ‘Operation Regret This In Five Years.’
It’s not something that’s at the forefront of my mind, but I think I’d regret it if I didn’t have children.
My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.
You’re not to wallow, but if you don’t process your regrets, then they remain emotional underground toxins.
I am not premeditated in what I am going to say. That means there will be times I regret saying certain things.
I used to worry a lot. I still worry a lot, but not about the things that I used to worry about because my younger self, I didn’t regret anything that I ever did… I was happy, and I was free, and I was living it up.
Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine.
But you know all about that, being sorry and having no words to say something when you know you should but you just can’t.
As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I’m not going to say what they were.
No words can describe the depths of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation and the presidency – a nation I so deeply love and an institution I so greatly respect.
War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.
I like challenges and I don’t believe in failure. I don’t believe in regrets. I believe suffering, failure – all those concepts – are things that are absolutely necessary to make us the best people that we can be, the best at whatever we want to do.
Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.
You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have not many months to live; but, of course, I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.
My life was really focused on futbol, but as those things happen in life, my passion for music won over my passion for futbol. But I love what I do. I don’t regret it.
Powerful people have no regrets.
My regret was immediate and permanent and useless.
No one regrets having changed a lightbulb.
We keep ourselves so tied up in regretting the past and fearing the future that we don’t have any energy left to figure out who we are and what we want to create right now.
It’s just not in me to regret being me.
I’ve lost loved ones in my life who never knew how much I loved them. Now I live with the regret that my true feelings for them never were revealed.
Regret not that which is past; and trust not to thine own righteousness.
All that I have said up to now has merely been words.
When people come to see me, I have to say something.
But it is best not to speak about these matters too much.
Better to begin practice without delay.
I am like aВ good friend inviting you to go somewhere.
Do not hesitate, just get going. You won’t regret it.
When people come to see me, I have to say something.
But it is best not to speak about these matters too much.
Better to begin practice without delay.
I am like aВ good friend inviting you to go somewhere.
Do not hesitate, just get going. You won’t regret it.
a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.
When I say, ‘I’m sorry,’ it’s because I regret something.
You’ll never regret being a good friend.
We were to work in a film titled ‘Zabardast’. Unfortunately, this film didn’t take off. After this, I never got another chance to work with him, I regret not having worked with Dilip Kumar.
Every mistake that you make, or every thing that you might regret, you don’t need to necessarily regret it, because it can be a step forward. You just move forward and let them go because there will be a lot of bad auditions, and there will be a lot of negative responses. But that won’t last forever.
I regret the time and resources needed to undertake this but… it is right to lay this accusation to rest.
I did some things I regret, and I know there are people who think they know me. I’ve heard the things they say, and some of them are hurtful.
I wouldn’t say I regret anything. I would say I just wish I did things better.
My mom just died. We blink and another decade passes. I don’t want to reach the end of my life and regret not having given my days everything in me to make them worthwhile.
Each minute we spend worrying about the future and regretting the past is a minute we miss in our appointment with life – a missed opportunity to engage life and to see that each moment gives us the chance to change for the better, to experience peace and joy.
Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
When you regret something, what you aren’t seeing is that someday, later, or maybe sooner, you’re going to see why you didn’t get the thing you wanted. So often, something better is just around the corner.
Everybody’s got regrets. It’s a personal choice as to whether or not you can change.
Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign‘d On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!
Oh, I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly. But that’s just part of the deal. I’m not really sure what’s going to come out of my mouth.
I do think it’s important to be smiling and not make it all about business. You’ll look back and regret it later, if you don’t take advantage of your youth and your ability to travel. And it gives you something to pull from and inspiration to play your characters, and for your life and your development as a human being.
When we grow old, there can only be one regret – not to have given enough of ourselves.
What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
I didn’t want to go to school for more than four years, and I didn’t know what you did with a bachelor‘s in biology. So I switched over and got my degree in communications. I regret it now. It was one of the most idiotic things I ever did.
Regret is a form of punishment itself.
If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
It is with great regret that I have to inform Manchester City of my wish to leave the club. I would like to state that I have great respect for the club, its supporters, and the owner, Sheikh Mansour, who has been nothing other than respectful to me.
‘Emeril’ came on the air right when a new president of NBC was taking over, and there was just a big shift going on. And then 9/11 happened, and that really pretty much killed it, because the show was already having a hard time finding an audience. I don’t regret it. I had a really good time.
Villains with a conscience have this sad realization of who they are, and the monster they’ve become — there’s a sense of regret. So at the end of these movies there’s a dramatic resonance that really stays with the audience.
I don’t keep it secret that I live with my partner Gio. I’m very proud of my gayness. But there is lots I wouldn’t want the press to write about me… it is a matter of regret that being gay is the most interesting thing about me.
Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I’m starting to regret it.
There’s a lot of things I could’ve done better, and I regret not doing better. I do know I always gave it my best shot.
Music lets me forget bad experiences. You cannot keep ragas and regrets in your mind together.
With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didnt use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.
Sacrfice,” the captain said. “You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn’t get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to.
I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him.
I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive. Yes, I think that those issues are very interesting to play in a character, and they’re prominent issues in life, and I think people can relate to them.
I didn’t have a school life like everyone else because I started working at a young age. That’s what I regret.
If I lost your respect…I’m just hope you don’t look at me as something you regret.
All of us at some point in life regret for things we did and did not do in life.
Regrets don’t help anything.
In life, you can’t regret anything because it’s called opportunities that you pass. You’re the only one that can take the opportunity but you disappoint yourself with the decision of doing or not doing.
I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret.
I’m lucky to be getting a lot of good work in Tollywood. And I won’t say I’m choosy, but of course, you have to select the best, and I’m trying to grab as many good films as I can. There was a time when I had to let go of some films which I regret now.
Actually, the only thing that I can honestly say I really regret now is the blackface thing. I did not understand.
If you regret anything in your life, then you haven’t learned any lessons.
Better ten days of love than years of regretting.
Regret is a waste of time and energy and doesn’t do a thing for me.
I did Polyester, and I dont regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.
No one should say whether others should breed or not, that would go against how I feel a woman has the right to choose. Everyone has the right to feel regret.
Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: Yesterday’s regret and tomorrow’s worries.
The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but… what we ought to avoid.
My biggest fear is that I might end up doing a film which I might regret at a later point of time.
If I have any regrets, I could say that I’m sorry I wasn’t a better writer or a better singer.
What I do regret is working too hard sometimes instead of really enjoying my youth. I’m trying to make an effort to stop and smell the roses now.
The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.
I don’t believe in regret.
If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won’t be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret.
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it
I don’t really regret much of my music life.
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’d like to ask Eleanor Roosevelt what she regrets most, because I think that might reveal something that I didn’t catch on to while I was writing my book and, hopefully, that would start a conversation.
Your peers when you’re a teenager will always be the keepers of your embarrassment and regret. It was one of life’s great injustices, that you can move on and be accomplished and happy, but the moment you see someone from high school you immediately become the person you were then, not the person you are now.
I’ve been taught not to have any regrets. If we were to add up all of the hours spent regretting mistakes and use that time to develop new ideas, who knows how many brilliant new businesses would be created.
I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions
I work a lot abroad and have the most wonderful family and kids, but being away, you do miss out sometimes. I really hope I won’t regret the choices in the future.
If there’s one regret I have of my time in comedy it’s that I really I was so obsessed with improv for so many years and I exclusively did improv for the first 6 years or 7 years. I was doing comedy and then I started doing solo work and stand up, a bit of writing, making videos, and really going into it on that end.
Erm, I don’t really have any regrets.
I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.
I don’t regret anything that I’ve turned down, and I don’t regret anything that I’ve done, really.
I love that sound,’ he mumbled into her hair. ‘Blackbirds at dawn.’ ‘I hate it. Makes me think I’ve done something I’ll regret.
When I have a child, it will be probably become my whole life, so I don’t want to have any regrets that I should have done more.
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
I realized that, after tasting entrepreneurship, I had become unfit for the corporate world. There was no turning back. The only regret I had was having wasted my life in the corporate world for so long.
I did Polyester, and I don’t regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.
Present fear is never as bad as later regret.
Some of what is being said about me is untrue or mischaracterized, but there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed. I regret that my shame is now shared by the people I cherish dearly.
I don’t have any regrets. There’s no point regretting anything because everything that you do gives you more experience and potentially makes you a stronger person or a better person.
I live my life with no regrets. Each decision of mine has define my life in a certain way
I have always believed it is not enough just to wear the silver fern and I do not regret pushing myself to try to deliver my best possible performance.
We didn’t know each other well. I never had the time. Now I see that it doesn’t make any difference. The ones who hurry and the ones who take their time all end up in the same place. Just don’t have any regrets. No regrets.
He had regrets, of course, but not so many that he would lose any sleep over them. Life surprised him now and then and he didn’t much care for surprises, unless he was passing them out. But – what was to be done? You had to deal with the reality, he had learned that over the years, no matter how much you didn’t like it
I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions.
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.
I’m not a fan of small talk but if you want to get into the big questions of life – your deepest regret, your greatest joy – then we’re going to have a great chat.
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.
If I regret leaving City, I’d regret leaving Madrid, I would regret Arsenal, and I would regret maybe even Metz, where I started off. So I have no regrets in life; life is too short to start regretting things.
In terms of relationships, I’ve had two failures, although I don’t like to call them failures; they are self learning, and I cannot say I regret any of my relationships. I’ve always said that I am a much loved woman.
In the emotion, you say things that you regret the next day.
A state of skepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the multitude that, if they are forcibly awakened, they still regret the loss of their pleasing vision.
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.
The thing that I regret is not having better relationships with a lot of people. Being the hard-nosed guy that I was, I think I could’ve come off a little bit better in my relationships with a lot of people, and I didn’t.
Everyone is going to go through that phase of not liking their hair, but at the end of the day you’re going to regret that you ever put relaxer or anything in your hair.
In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.
Do it right, regret nothing.
I don’t regret anything, because I feel better every year, and if I’d done something different, maybe I wouldn’t. I’m more of a whole person, the older I get.
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
On out deathbeds we’re not going to regret all the work we didn’t do. We’re going to regret all the sex we didn’t have!
Don’t give up. You’ll regret it.
It is my biggest regret that I gave up 10 runs on my last outing as a Ranger.
Temporary feelings of regret are a normal part of the mourning process. This helps us retrieve our lost dreams. If we hold on to regret, we risk trapping ourselves in a prison of unrealized dreams from which it is difficult to escape.
I did regret not graduating high school, but I made a point of going back and getting my GED later. It was important for my kids.
When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, then you are on the way to success.
A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory,
where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough becomes truth.
where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough becomes truth.
i have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.
Failure is something I can deal with. Regret is not.
There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there’s no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible.
The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.
I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.
I don’t live in regret land. I live in the now and in the future, and in the dreams that I have.
A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives.
It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.
I had a fantastic time at Birmingham and I never regret anything that happened there.
Live fast, fight hard, no regrets!
I don’t think there’s a person out there who can say they haven’t done something they regret.
I don’t know if I have any regrets, I have had a pretty successful life. I have learned good, bad, and ugly.
I was always in a big hurry to do everything. Before I was 20, I was married twice and had two kids. But I don’t regret any of it. I learned a lot about myself. I had a lot to say for someone my age, real early on.
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
That is the one thing in my public career that I regret–my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.
Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven’t are either liars or narcissists
Anything worth having is hard to keep,
I love you like my coffee, so hot and so sweet.
So, let’s stick it out so we never regret it,
I could forgive the past-but I never forget it.
I love you like my coffee, so hot and so sweet.
So, let’s stick it out so we never regret it,
I could forgive the past-but I never forget it.
I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes my life bearable, because my happiness with human beings is so precarious, my confiding moods rare, and the least sign of non-interest is enough to silence me. In the journal I am at ease.
I will always love you Drizzt Do’Urden my life was full and without regret because I knew you and was completed by you. Sleep well, my love.
I have no regrets. If I wanted to keep acting, I would have never left the cinema.
I think we all have regrets but I try to just learn from them instead of giving them too much attention and validity in my life. I used to regret not going to a major four-year university and missing out on dorm life but if I had done that, who knows if I would be doing what I do now.
God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday’s canvas with today’s paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret.
We regret mistakes were made.
I never regret things. It’s a really dangerous thing to say, but for anyone involved in the arts, the bad things that happen make for good material. It’s not a comfortable truth, but it is true.
When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything – that is the definition of conviction.
My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.
Do I regret getting married? It’s hard for me to say anything because ultimately we’re talking about the mother of my child.
Do the obvious, you won’t forget it. Do the obvious, you won’t regret it. Obvious, obvious, obvious.
Regret isn’t good. Every decision one makes in life is made for a reason or another. Whenever something bad happens, I go, ‘This is happening for a reason‘, or, ‘This is going to teach me something’.
A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference.
The libertarian can have no truck with ‘left’ or ‘right’ because he regrets any form of authoritarianism – the use of police force to control the creative life of man.
I do sometimes think I could have done without the drugs actually; that was a waste of time, and a huge risk. But then again, there’s nothing I can change, so in a way regret is pointless.
Don’t be afraid of girls. That is my big regret. Knowing what I know about girls, I should have just gone for it. Guys are such wimps.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
I deeply regret the damage which recent publicity has brought to the Labour Party. However, I reject any suggestion of intentional wrongdoing on my part.
Duty doesn’t need to call; it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for regret.” Odd Thomas
Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.
I don’t regret anything, not even leaving Boca because it was the time to do so.
There are five signs of righteousness: a gentle disposition and a soft heart, shedding tears of regret, ascetism and not caring about the world, being unambitious, and having a conscience.
Diwali means to be in the present, so drop the regrets of the past and the worries of the future and live in the moment. It is a time to forget the bickering and negativities that have happened through the year. It is a time when you throw light on the wisdom you have gained and welcome a new beginning.
I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.
When you get older, it’s not about what you did that you regret, it’s what you didn’t do.
I’ve neglected my own vanity. Not that I regret it, but looking good is part of my job.
No mistake, I shall regret the absence of your keen mind; unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.
People are terrified of other people or difficult projects because they tell themselves that they could fail or be rejected. Failure can lead to sorrow, regret, frustration and annoyance-all healthy feelings without which people couldn’t exist.
I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember… it’s not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.
Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future.
Living in regret will become your biggest regret.
My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it.
What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.
I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
But it is imperative, for our own survival, that we avoiid one another, and what more successful means of avoidance are there than words? Language will keep us safe from human onslaught, will express for us our regret at being unable to supply groceries or love or peace.
I do not regret working with Rupert Murdoch. But there is a nasty undertone to a lot of what he does which does not exist with the Barclays.
I regret that I stayed in my first relationship for too long. I didn’t get that it wasn’t working out.
I can say, “I don’t have anything I regret!” But I can also say, “I can go forward in my life the way it is and I don’t think I’ll accrue any future regrets.”
Never tweet while you’re angry; you’ll probably regret it later.
I don’t believe in having regrets. I believe everything happens for a reason even when we don’t want it to happen. Every high and every low moment has a lesson waiting for you to find it.
The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
I’m not trying to regret nothing in my career.
The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.
Clearly, I regret the email was quoted incorrectly and I regret that it’s become a distraction from the story, which still entirely stands. I should have been clearer about the attribution. We updated our story immediately.
Yeah, I regret we weren’t on a higher floor.
I don’t regret anything.
Everyone’s taste is different. But I think the best way to defend against regrets after opening night is to try your best to tell the story you want to tell. In terms of smaller changes over time, I think good plays are like poems. Every syllable counts.
Designer pricing should hurt, but it shouldn’t kill you. You wince when you hand over your AmEx, but once you get it home, you never regret it. You divide it by how many days you’re using it, and suddenly it becomes affordable.
I don’t regret doing ‘The Living Daylights’. If I hadn’t done Bond, I wouldn’t have been in America doing my series, and I would have had a different life.
I never regret anything and I don’t believe in regret. I think it’s just a big time-waster.
O last regret, regret can die!
I think I’m designed to regret everything.
I’m not naturally a gifted dancer, and I don’t enjoy it. I didn’t go to any of those classes in drama school ’cause I was like, “I’m not going to dance. I don’t need to learn to dance.” I regret that.
I don’t do too much looking back and regretting things – not that I haven’t made tons of mistakes. But I do think people are in our lives so we can learn lessons and evolve as better human beings.
Believe me – I’ve done very good stuff and very crazy stuff, and I don’t regret the crazy stuff.
It’s not like he called me up and asked me. They’ve never wanted to throw us into that world, and I think our decision probably shocked them. But I love my dad, and I think I’d regret it if I didn’t do this.
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.
Family life is tough, I’ll say that for it. But in my case, I’ve mined the family. In a sense, I’ve used it. I’ve used what happened – the different events, the births of children, birthdays. Connecting, not connecting. Regret, shame, guilt. I mean, they’re all in the songs. And love, too, I hasten to add.
I regret that I had to leave my country. But I had to do it in order to achieve and decide my own fate. I was forced into it. Democracy came about 15 years too late for me. But I have to say that it’s there now, and Czech Republic is a fantastic country; it always was but just had the wrong regime at the top.
You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.
My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can’t.
I never regret any of the work I’ve done.
So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can’t help it.
Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic vision of how things might be if there were men around; I saw myself in a country house with six children and a garden. That has never been achieved – and I still regret it.
Well my own impression of my musical pieces is that no matter how long I’ve been at it, there’s not much improvement. So that’s kind of regrettable.
I have no tattoos that I regret – I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
Discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons
One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, ‘Whatever you do, don’t smoke‘. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
Success is assured when a person fears the pain of regret more than the pain of the process.
If you want to cry, then cry. Decide by yourself whether you are important or not. Even if other people value you, nobody can do anything for you. Ultimately, it’s your problem so if you live without regrets, then over time I think that your problems would disappear.
for every person who’s stepped out of line and lived to regret it, there are two people who stayed in line because they got their values mixed and lost their nerve, and who have lived to regret it still more. You don’t hear about those people because they’re still in line where they don’t show.
That’s the thing about love – it’s full of possibilities. It can lead you down so many different paths. Sure, for some of us, it can lead to sadness and regret. But, for others, well, for others it can lead them to the greatest future they could’ve ever hoped for. Love is the most possible thing in the world.
My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.
I regret not being able to mature quicker.
You shouldn’t never regret something that made you smile
It’s always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.
If I have one regret in my career, it is that I did not join Rangers a lot sooner.
It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.
I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.
She tried to think of what to say to make it all better again, or at least the way it was before she’d made her confession, though she didn’t regret having confessed. Perhaps that was what had been wrong with her all along. Now that the lie wasn’t between them anymore, maybe she could love him again.
I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family.
I think one of the things I regret was not having more faith in myself early on.
When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness.
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.
Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. It’s a dead language. The thing is, you can’t un-sin. You can only repent.
After I played the mother in a few films, I was only offered mother roles. I just wanted to act; so I don’t regret doing any film.
It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
I didn’t leave Barcelona in the best way but I took the decision to leave and I don’t regret it. There were a few problems with the club – some misunderstandings – and so I decided to leave because I wanted to develop as a player.
It isn’t the great big pleasures that count the most; it’s making a great deal out of the little ones–I’ve discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.
If ever you get to be my age,” said the old woman, “you will know all there is to know about regrets, and you will know that one more, here or there, will make no difference in the long run.
Life is full of regrets, but it doesn’t pay to look back.
One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.
If I had to live my life over again, I would live it exactly the same way. I would do everything in the same way. I don’t regret anything.
My biggest regret is that I didn’t listen to my intuition as it was yelling at me.
I have the deepest regret about 9/11. Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the most difficult days I’ve ever had. I was in Lima, Peru, and had to fly back eight hours not knowing what happened in my own country, knowing thousands of my fellow citizens had died.
When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders.
I don’t regret having been fat at all.
I have never known anyone to accept Christ’s redemption and later regret it.
We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday’s good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow’s regrets.
I regret. I apologize. I blame myself. I continue as before.
I’m not a blokey bloke. I don’t take myself too seriously. But that doesn’t stop me being a bad person sometimes and doing things I regret. Such as having a child with someone you’ve split up with, then falling in love and wanting to spend the rest of your life with someone else. That’s quite difficult.
Most saints live to regret their career choice.
Although there are real hazards in saying yes to life, they are inconsequential when compared to the regrets that come with saying “no”.
I regret not the things I have done, only those I have yet to do.
Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain.
I’m slowly becoming a repository for decomposing sorrows, regrets, ignored injustice, and forgotten promises. I can still feel its stench. But when I get accustomed to it, I will call it experience.
I don’t have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we’ve all made some of those. But I’m not sad about change.
I am what I am. I don’t regret anything.
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn’t want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as a fan, but was hiding sinister ambitions and angles. Maybe he’s actually the boring one looking for something interesting to write about.
I’ve always known that there’s more going on inside me than finds its way into the world, but this is probably true of everyone. Who doesn’t regret that he isn’t more fully understood?
A lifetime of lonely regret or happiness with some pain along the way.
Regrets are born of paths never taken.
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.
A person without regrets is a nincompoop.
As long as youre happy where you are now, you cant really regret anything youve done.
Regret for wasted time is more wasted time
I don’t regret the way I approached things, because otherwise I wouldn’t have achieved what I did, but when I look back, I could have enjoyed things more.
As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality, and we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by.
I wore a ‘Black Metal‘ Venom T-shirt once, in January 1993, to promote black metal, and I regret having done that ever since.
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
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
Remember, the pain of rejection is nothing compared to the pain of regret.
I don’t believe in regrets; I believe your future is in your tomorrows.
I think what I regret is that I would rather do something like that when I was a more established actress and I really had proven myself first. Now, people are still unsure whether I can act or not. I just don’t want to be one of those girls who are playing off the show’s popularity.
At a recent show, I looked out and I saw this girl crying in the audience and it really affected me. I wanted to stop the song and go and give her a hug. I should have, actually – I regret not doing that.
I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don’t regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.
Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.
Moments, when lost, can’t be found again. They’re just gone.
It always surprises me when people say, ‘I don’t regret one thing about my life. I wouldn’t change anything because it’s all led me to where I am today.’ I would want to change certain things that have caused others pain.
I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all.
…but I’ve never regretted it. You can’t regret experience.
It’s better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.
Marry or marry not, in any either case you’ll regret it
You have this one life. How do you wanna spend it? Apologizing? Regretting? Questioning? Hating yourself? Dieting? Running after people who don’t see you? Be brave. Believe in yourself. Do what feels good. Take risks. You have this one life. Make yourself proud.
In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.
I’m genuinely curious about people, and I’m always interested when people do share with me. But I would not want someone to share something with me and then after the fact feel uncomfortable or regret it.
Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to.
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Sometimes I regret that the wonderful children‘s stories that have been made into movies were – people no longer read ‘The Wizard of Oz’; they think they know the story. They don’t know anything about all the bits and pieces they had to leave out.
I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I – but it’s a mistake I can’t regret, because it’s like saying, ‘I shouldn’t have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.’
Revenge is so much more satisfying than regret.
I love to never regret, or go, ‘I wish I would have tried that.’
I’m very grateful for what I have. I’m old enough that I can mort out at any minute without any sense of regret at all. That’s not true. I might look back and think I wish I hadn’t been so selfish when my kids were smaller. But I’m not overwhelmed by regret.
I don’t really regret anything I’ve done, even if it’s bad. I mean, I have a $100,000 Chopard watch. I don’t need a $100,000 watch, but I like it. It’s all diamonds. That’s a little extreme, but I don’t care.
Spendin all the money I just worked my ass off for doing things that I won’t regret.
We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken.
Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I’m just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things.
It’s easier to forget the past if nothing ever reminds you of those leathery old scars that can never again feel any loss or pain; the old wounds must be kept open if you are going to remember their cause and regret their occurrence.
Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
It’s easier to live with disappointment than regret.
May you get exactly what you want and live long enough to regret it.
I don’t regret my past, I just regret the time I’ve wasted on the wrong people.
I’m too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
You can’t let regret stifle your creativity.
I’m far from perfect. There’s a lot of times you’ll say something that you regret or do something that you regret and wish you wouldn’t have said it or done it.
My role in Palin is something that there’s not a day that has gone by that I don’t have regret about.
Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in “sadness”, “joy”, or “regret”. Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I’d like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions.
Regret is what you should fear the most. If something is going to keep you awake at night, let it be the fear of not following your dream.
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’m not big on regret; I don’t spend a lot of time on it.
You only regret what you don’t do! Go for it, live your dreams and enjoy it all!
Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.
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.
It’s my job to turn my mess [life] into a message and never regret a day of my life.
I regret something about every single one of my roles. I always, always have something to regret about them, because I just think I didn’t do well enough with them.
A nation that turns it back on Christ and God’s words of truth will inevitably regret it.
I regret that I’ve never actually managed to be inspired enough to get into anything else, and I should’ve been, I really should have been, because the piano can be a wonderful instrument. But I’m afraid that my inspiration is just purely on the words… and it’s gonna stay there.
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
Regrets are as personal as fingerprints.
It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we probably would not know in advance and, once the discovery is made, it cannot be undiscovered.
I often feel more disgust than pride about this kind of success. So there’s no regret whatsoever.
There are moments in your life where you realize you could do nothing, but if you do, you’ll probably regret it forever.
I’ve started spending more of my time studying, trying to improve my IQ by reading and writing. I’ve missed out on a lot in life. I don’t regret this, of course. Nevertheless, I need to make up for lost time.
I should have got a better deal in my career, but everything has its time. You can’t rush things, feel remorse or regret.
I don’t have regrets because they are negative.
Give your real being a chance to shape your life. You will not regret it.
You’re never going to regret working out or being active. You might regret not doing it, you might regret pressing that snooze button, but you’ll never regret getting physically active.
Obviously, in my twenties, a lot of downtime was spent having a good time, which I don’t regret; that was what I needed to do to get some things out of my system.
I did it to get what I want. Maybe I should regret that, but I can’t. Sometimes you do the bad thing and hope for the good result.
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
I regret that the presentation I made at the UN turned out to be wrong. It was wrong on the stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, but pretty much right on intentions and capabilities.
I have a lot of regrets, of course I do. I should have taken that part; I should have maybe married that one, I don’t know, but I didn’t. So I am what I am and I’m pretty confident that I can break in. I think what I have to offer on film and on television is honest.
Ask God for forgiveness, and leave your regrets in the past!
Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.
Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I’ve become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn’t streamed into science, and I regret that now.
I don’t regret not going to college. Students learn up to the age of 21, then stop. I’ll always be learning – the things that really matter in life. How to sign on, how to get free food, how to be streetwise.
One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.
Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.
Here is my biggest takeaway after 60 years on the planet: There is great value in being fearless. For too much of my life, I was too afraid, too frightened by it all. That fear is one of my biggest regrets.
I was a slow starter. I didn’t really make any dazzling impressions. But I don’t really regret that because I learned a lot along the way. I always kept busy – I found my way my way, and I’m happy about it.
I wasn’t mentally prepared to take care of them, I was focused on my career. And then when I got to be in my 40s and I thought about having kids, I wasn’t able to have kids naturally. I don’t regret it.
One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.
I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.
You learn from things that you experience in life. I’d never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn’t how I have chosen to live my life.
As simplistic as this may sound, commitment is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.
The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret
I don’t really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn’t want a different life.
I don’t have one regret.
You don’t want to look back at your years with regrets. Regrets have no place in your memory jar.
Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose.
Indeed, Xcor stayed away for the wrong reason, the bad reason, an unacceptable reason—in spite of all his training, he found himself choosing Throe’s life over ambition: His anger had taken him in one direction, but his regret had led him in another. And the latter one was what won out.
My dream is to do things until ‘I have no regrets’
I don’t know how you can look back with regret if you’re at a moment when everything seems fine.
I will never regret being there for my children, watching them, making sure they’ll be okay. But I might regret not being there for them.
We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything.
I think I don’t regret a single ‘excess’ of my responsive youth – I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
I never regret making a decision.
I could have worked with great people like Nile Rodgers, which I regret. I don’t have many regrets, but I remember he’d shown some interest, and I was just in my own world, man.
To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible – that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.
Do what you want, if it is something you did regret the next day, sleep in late.
You cannot just waste time. Otherwise you’ll die to regret it.
When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
Are you living everyday so that even if the end were to come you’d have to regrets?
Never, never waste a minute on regret. It’s a waste of time.
Live a lie, and you will live to regret it; that’s what livin’ is to me.
There are people who are saying that they voted twice for Mr. Obama and they are now feeling a great sense of regret, not only over Guantanamo, etc., but now perhaps the entry into a new war in West Asia.
Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.
Being hurt by someone you really cared about, it makes me want to make them regret ever hurting my heart. Best way of doing that? Success. Get ready for it.
I don’t think my experience with professional football has been what you’d call normal but I don’t regret it.
If I get to the end of my life, if I die, and I find out religion is one big lie, I still won’t regret it because it’s helped me to live a better life, to be a better person, to care about people, to believe in forgiveness, to believe in hope.
I dont really believe in regrets.
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won’t soothe his soul.
Regret is unnecessary. Think before you act.
I have no regrets because I did everything by the book.
I did have regrets these past six months,” he told me quietly. “I found it a curse as much as a blessing, all that time to think. About the things I could have said, that I should have told you  .  .  .
Whenever I have a birthday, I think back over the past year, how I’ve spent my time, what I’ve accomplished, what regrets I have, how I’ve tried to make the world a better place, and what exactly I’ve been doing with my life over the past 365 days, and I think to myself: ‘Man, I wish I’d gotten laid more’.
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other path, no other way, no day but today.
Stephen A.Douglas was a risk-taker by temperament; I expect that Lincoln – Douglas debates represented another risk he just couldn’t resist. He lived to regret it.
People do dollar cost averaging because they have regret of making one big mistake. But the fact of the matter is that, mathematically, the market rises more of the time than it falls. It falls, but it rises more of the time than it falls.
What we most regret are not the errors we make, but the things we didnt do.
I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
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.
I don’t remember myself to be a forefront fighter, but when pushed to a point with a wall behind me, there is only one way forward. Later you can call it a Rambo syndrome, but I never regret it, as it comes naturally to me, and in my mind, that is the only way.
Of course I do not regret the Bond days, I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth I have always hated guns and what they represent.
A Warrior of the Light has no regrets, because regrets can kill.
The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called — which only a nerd would call — a “regret minimization framework.” So, I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, “Okay, now I’m looking back on my life. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.”
Life is a process of accumulation. We either accumulate the debt or the value, the regret or the equity.
Do not regret the past. Look to the future.
Never regret something, because at one point everything you did was exactly what you wanted to do. And sometimes that’s the hardest thing to realize.
I don’t go around regretting things that don’t happen.
The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again.
I will always cherish the times at JGR. The only thing that I regret is that we didn’t win more races and/or championships.
The great regret of my life is that I didn’t have children.
I don’t really regret anything about my youth.
Regrets are ridiculous, so I don’t regret, no.
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.
I don’t regret anything I’ve put out there.
Isn’t it better to regret things you’ve done, than regret things you’ve never even tried?
I still can’t say whether I ever want children….I can only say how I feel now–grateful to be on my own. I also know that I won’t go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life; I don’t think this is a strong enough motivation to bring more babies onto the earth.
I don’t have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might’ve unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.
Some of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain and regret and need and hollowness and a feeling as close to anger as I will ever be able to manage.
I regret I didn’t ever learn how to fly a plane. I had the opportunity when I started to make some money, and I regret I didn’t really take the time out and put the effort in and do that.
I so rarely turned down a role, that I can’t say I have any regrets in that regard. There were many roles that I would rather not have done, but having a home and family requires that we sometimes do things we would rather not.
Everything I turn up to, I think I’m going to enjoy. I never look back, so I don’t have regrets.
When I’m old I’m never going to say,I didn’t do this or, I regret that. I’m going to say,I don’t regret a damn thing. I came, I went, and I did it all.
There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips.
A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread.
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.
With every decision you make in your life, you’re going to have some regrets about the way it goes. You just have to chose which set of regrets you can live with the best, and try to minimize the amount of regrets you have.
If I’m awake at 2 A.M., I’m either suffering from anxiety or doing something I will regret tomorrow.
You look at the road you could have taken, you know, I just think that’s interesting… I’ve been on a lot of roads and I had to hitchhike on a couple of ’em… I have to be very honest: There’s not an awful lot of regret in my life. I think that, you know, you learn from everything, and then, sometimes, you don’t.
Droll thing life is — that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself — that comes too late — a crop of inextinguishable regrets.
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They’re making a mistake.
We’re either nothing or a God’s regret.
They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.
I became a man in New York. New York made me the musician that I am and the person that I am, so it’s impossible for me to say I regret having lived there.
Regret is such a pointless emotion.
Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.
But when my grandmother saw me plucking [my eyebrows] she said: ‘Don’t. You will regret it. One day you will wake up with no eyebrows and think how stupid you were. Your eyebrows are the most beautiful thing about you.’
it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.
It’s my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It’s the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn’t have used it.
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
My head has got regrets, but I haven’t.
I quit the Knicks so I know what quitting is, I did. I quit. And it’s something I regret to this day. I live with it every day and I regret it. And I let my emotions come into it. And I was just emotionally spent. I made a bad decision and I quit.
The truth is, I’m proud of the life I’ve lived so far, and though I’ve made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
I had no regrets when I did it, I have even less regret now because I can’t imagine staying on the West Wing show and then, six weeks later, Aaron Sorkin leaving.
To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.
We find it difficult to comprehend, and we deeply regret the decision as it is discriminatory in the sense that it targeted certain countries without a clear reason.
You think I regret saving your life?
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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 can’t take it back. I can’t take anything back. So I don’t regret it.
My family’s great and everybody’s happy and healthy and my career is good. But personally, I had to sacrifice a lot in my own personal life. And I regret that.
When the human organism is discharging its negative experience efficiently, the mind is empty of past or future concerns; there is no worry, anticipation, or regret. This means that the mind is left open to Being, the simplest state of awareness.
There have been many articles about the top regrets that people have when they’re dying. They are always, “I missed the ordinary moments.” We miss those ordinary moments, and yet, that’s what we’re trying to distract ourselves from at the same time.
Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
I started my career because if I’d have done anything else, I would regret it. I truly feel this career chose me more than I chose it. I would say that it’s for something greater than me with a little of the creative fulfillment that comes with it splashed in there.
I regret a couple of wardrobe decisions.
I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
One of the many things I regret is that I hurt so many people by giving them nasty nicknames, and above all that I was unkind to the children of celebrities.
This felt right. Not just leaving, but how I was doing it. Without regret, without second guessing. And with Wes right there, holding the door open for me as I walked out into the light.
Choose with no regret.
Remorse – Regret that one waited so long to do it.
Regrets, I’ve had a few but then again too few to mention. And more, much more than this, I did it my way.
When I prepare for any tournament, I just feel that I want to give my best in the tournament as I may not get the next opportunity and I don’t want to regret it after this tournament.
I want to take retirement rather than feel as if it’s taking me unawares. Maybe even seize it joyously. But at least behold it without looking back so longingly that I turn into a pillar of regret.
My only regret is that I’m going before that rat, Robespierre! [to his executioner] Don’t forget to show my head to the people; it’s well worth seeing.
It is with enormous regret that I have decided to leave Wish You Were Here?’ after two very happy years as its presenter. It was always my intention to do two years on this wonderful program and now it is time for me to move on to other things.
My religion is to live and die without regret.
Do it or don’t do it – you will regret both.
I will never look at you in the same way ever again. I’ll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.
I always had a sort of niggling regret that we didn’t come do stuff in America.
I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me… I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely… I could have used a bit more solitude.
And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement. They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer.
Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man’s destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny . . . it is also her vulnerability.
It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.
I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.
God is the God of ‘right now.’ He doesn’t want you sitting around regretting yesterday. Nor does He want you wringing your hands and worrying about the future. He wants you focusing on what He is saying to you and putting in front of you … right now.
Man down is a song about a girl who has committed a murder that she regrets and is completely remorseful about.
I had to constantly try and fit in it and it really exhausted and tired me. I don’t regret it because that was my learning to learn to come to this point of loving myself unconditionally.
I’m sick of being everyone’s regret. My mother died in shame because she’d borne me. My father and brother despise me and my sister can barely look me in the eye! (Acheron)
What I regret most after becoming a cartoonist is having used my real name. At first, I figured there was no way I’d sell anyhow, so I didn’t even consider using a pen name.
What I can say is I think [Miley Cyrus] a fantastic artist. She’s got a fantastic voice. I made a comment in the past that I really regret making because I never like being mean.
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.
It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.
Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you’ll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.
Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.
I have no regrets, none whatsoever.
What love will make you do
All the things that we accept
Be the things that we regret
All the things that we accept
Be the things that we regret
I think you regret the things that you don’t do more than the things you do.
Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.
Everybody’s got regrets. Everybody’s made mistakes. Nobody’s perfect.
All I can do is engage with complete sincerity. Then whatever happens, there is no regret.
I don’t regret anything, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t look back and think, ‘What was I thinking?’
Among the conservative Greek opinion there would be no regrets that Alexander the Greek leader was invading the barbarians.
I think everyone can relate to the werewolf myth – because we’ve all, as a result of alcohol, drugs, exhaustion, rage, gone off the leash and come to regret it later. I appeal to this psychologically – the unleashed id – but with a biological cause; I’m hopefully making possible supernatural circumstances.
My big regret is that my brother and I didn’t start doing what we did like, 10 years before. I feel like then we would have sold some records. We started pretty late – I was 27 when our first album came out.
How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.
Embrace a mistake and learn from it; don’t regret them.
My major regret in life is not going to university, though not for the qualification I would have gained. People I know who went there have a working method where they sit down and get something done; they know how to start and get on with things. I will do anything to avoid getting on with stuff.
A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.
I don’t think there’s anything I can’t do. I have no regrets.
Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.
I feel that I’ve worked with a lot of interesting people, and I have no regrets. I’m just curious about what I might have done if I’d had people in my life then who did explain what the publicity game was.
Regretting the past does not prevent me from repeating it.
I had a blast in the ’90s, perhaps too much fun, and maybe I should have worked a lot harder and partied a lot less, but I definitely don’t regret the 12 years I spent living out in L.A.
It’s better to have something to remember than anything to regret.
I’d like to be remembered as someone that lived life by his own rules with no regrets.
I don’t regret anything that I ever did. You just look back at things and you either learn from them or get what you can from them but I wouldn’t change what I did.
There cannot be many people who can go through life without regretting sooner or later a lack of knowledge about horses.
I’m trying this thing where I don’t regret as much ’cause it doesn’t really work that well to regret things.
It’s exciting to look back at the work that I’ve done and not have a single regret about a job I’ve taken. I feel really proud of every film I’ve been a part of. Big or small role, I feel like it was the right choices.
I’ve paid my price, a high price, I watched my mother die. I look at everything I’ve been given now as a form of compensation. A person who has regrets is a person who casts anchors.
I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn’t have anything to regret for the rest of their life.
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.
When you look to the past, don’t sit and dwell on your regrets. Instead, focus on the things you learned from each experience and how they may enrich your future. Use the past not as something to hold you back, but as a method for reaffirming the drive to move forward on your chosen path.
You can’t regret the life you didn’t lead.
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
Everybody in life says things at times that they regret.
I have no regrets. Regrets are meaningless. You can’t change yesterday or tomorrow. You can change only this present moment.
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
I’ve made a lot of dumb mistakes, but I don’t regret them at all.
Regrets are only felt by those who do not understand life’s purpose.
We suffer one of two things. Either the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. You’ve got to choose discipline, versus regret, because discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons.
With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.
