Regret Quotes
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Looking back, I've never had one regret. (Quote by - Ted Lindsay)
Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened. (Quote by - William Henry Hudson)
Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long. (Quote by - Marguerite Gardiner)
We very much regret that our merger with Sprint was not allowed to proceed. (Quote by - Bernard Ebbers)
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. (Quote by - H L Mencken)
Were it not better to forget Than to remember and regret? (Quote by - Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven't . (Quote by - Lucille Ball)
When I am in the Scottish Parliament chamber, I often feel the need to sit for the entire debate. It's only courteous to listen to what everyone has to say, although I often find myself desperate to say something but too scared to stand up in case I regret it. (Quote by - Margo Macdonald)
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. (Quote by - Peter Gallagher)
I don't have a lot of regrets in my life. (Quote by - Cathy Freeman)
A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps. (Quote by - Charles Goodyear)
We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period. (Quote by - David Gill)
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. (Quote by - Nathan Hale)
Let's not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that's gone. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read. (Quote by - F. Sagan)
Speak when you are angry - and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. (Quote by - Laurence Peter)
I don?t regret coming to college. I had a fun year. I had a great year on the court, and off the court at school. (Quote by - Carmelo Anthony)
Oh, Lord, it is not the sins I have committed that I regret, but those which I have had no opportunity to commit (Quote by - Ghalib)
We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow. (Quote by - Fulton Oursler)
We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do. (Quote by - Zachary Scott)
Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures, we should put them behind us and go ahead, for vain regretting interferes with the flow of power into our own personalities. (Quote by - Edith Johnson)
The only DIY haircut I would ever recommend is a crop woth the clippers: mess around with scissors and you'll regret it! (Quote by - Charles Worthington)
The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks. (Quote by - Barbara Ehrenreich)
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts.... I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You just have to let those things bounce off . (Quote by - William Westmoreland)
I will always remember my playing career with fond memories and though there may be the odd regret the main feeling is one of immense pride. (Quote by - Tom Finney)
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. (Quote by - Nathan Hale)
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. (Quote by - Lucy Maud Montgomery)
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets. (Quote by - Henry A Kissinger)
Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect. (Quote by - The Lion)
Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today's duties put off until tomorrow give us a double burden to bear; the best way is to do them in their proper time. (Quote by - Ida Scott Taylor)
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. (Quote by - Frank Luntz)
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. (Quote by - Sydney J Harris)
A regret I have was never being able to interview George Harrison. I just loved him but I never had a chance to interview him. (Quote by - Nina Blackwood)
It's not what your are, it's what you don't become that hurts. (Quote by - Oscar Levant)
Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these... it might have been. (Quote by - John Greenleaf Whittier)
It seemed to me that 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. (Quote by - Nora Ephron)
There hasn't been anything in my life that I would regret, ... and I don't consider myself a fuddy-duddy. The only thing I don't have is an iPod. (Quote by - Helen Phillips)
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did. (Quote by - Sydney Pollack)
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them. (Quote by - Francis P Yockey)
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. (Quote by - Arthur Miller)
My only regret is that we didn't have more kids. I came from a family of four kids, but my wife and I just started too late. (Quote by - John Lithgow)
I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. (Quote by - Lucille Ball)
Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret. (Quote by - Robert E. Lee)
To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret. (Quote by - Thomas Harrison)
When I left school I went on trip around the world-I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life. (Quote by - Ben Nicholson)
I am a dejected, discarded bride, totally miserable. I have lost my youth; I regret and repent. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
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. (Quote by - Joseph Epstein)
I regret your going. We need a man like you at Ottawa, though I should not want two. (Quote by - Wilfrid Laurier)
Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change. (Quote by - Tom Clancy)
While had my time in the limelight, I regret that I didn't use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program. (Quote by - Bernhard Goetz)
I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be. (Quote by - Maggie Gallagher)
Only in your imagination can you revise. (Quote by - Fay Wray)
I gave a speech on Nov. 12 last year and made it clear in this speech that I have made some mistakes in the past and that I regret this and that I apologize for having wounded people by doing this. (Quote by - Jorg Haider)
Accept life, and you must accept regret. (Quote by - Henri F. Amiel)
Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, 'What will you have, sir?' And I said, 'A glass of hemlock.' (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
You cannot just waste time. Otherwise you'll die to regret it. (Quote by - Harriet Doerr)
Go to the effort. Invest the time. Write the letter. Make the apology. Take the trip. Purchase the gift. Do it. The seized opportunity renders joy. The neglected brings regret. (Quote by - Max L. Lucado)
Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days. (Quote by - David Talbot)
I was born to make music, really I have no choice. There are certain things I have to live with and I have lots of regret, but I hope to make the world a better place. I still believe that I can make difference. (Quote by - J. Loren Wince)
I am a competitive person, and I didn't win the leadership of the PC party with a mind to stepping down so soon afterwards. But no regrets. (Quote by - Peter Mackay)
I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much. (Quote by - Julie Christie)
It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help. (Quote by - John Keegan)
Youth is a blunder. Manhood a struggle. Old Age a regret. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present. (Quote by - Madeleine Lengle)
In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made (Quote by - Kathleen Norris)
Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm. (Quote by - Louis Farrakhan)
Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one. (Quote by - Theodor Herzl)
I deeply regret having let stand and later confirming the assumption that I went to Vietnam. For this and any other distortions about my personal life, I want to apologize to my family, friends, colleagues and students. Beyond that circle, however, I shall have no further comment. (Quote by - Joseph J Ellis)
No, why should I regret it ? There's no point in having regrets about anything, it's done. (Quote by - Gail Porter)
Those who give of themselves rarely regret it. (Quote by - Marvin Olasky)
The only possible regret I have is the feeling that I will die without having played enough tennis. (Quote by - Jean Borotra)
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. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
As past presidents of the Liberal Party, we deeply regret and are greatly saddened by the precipitate action by some party officers and members at the Manila Hotel. (Quote by - Florencio Abad)
Often regret is very false and displaced, and imagines the past to be totally other than it was. (Quote by - John O'donohue)
Again in the long of history most of what I said turned out to be true and Andrew's since expressed regret to me about that. (Quote by - Anthony Holden)
I regret that in the heat of the locker room atmosphere of the lobbying world, I sometimes, rarely - but sometimes - I resorted to language more common to a drill sergeant or a football coach. (Quote by - Jack Abramoff)
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. (Quote by - Jane D Hull)
I've always regretted the fact that I've never formally studied and learned the mechanics of writing music. (Quote by - Stan Getz)
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. (Quote by - Nobuo Uematsu)
I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me. (Quote by - Zachary Taylor)
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
I don't regret pulling the trigger. I should have been more careful with many of the things I said afterwards. That was a big regret. (Quote by - Bernhard Goetz)
Looking back, I have this regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. (Quote by - David Gayson)
I'm not sure that I deserve it, but I will do my best so that you won't regret it. (Quote by - Penelope Cruz)
I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do. (Quote by - Midori Ito)
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. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
I don't really believe in regrets. (Quote by - Wayne Newton)
I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets. (Quote by - Debbie Harry)
It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets. (Quote by - William Thomas)
Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this. (Quote by - Shania Twain)
I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else. (Quote by - Queen Latifah)
It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret (Quote by - Jackie Joyner-Kersee)
I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not (Quote by - Lucille Ball)
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. (Quote by - William O'Rourke)
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it come to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away. (Quote by - Leif Garrett)
When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves. (Quote by - Eleanora Duse)
One of the sweetest pleasures of a woman is to cause regret. (Quote by - Paul Gavarni)
Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight. (Quote by - Roland Gift)
To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing. (Quote by - Adolf Eichmann)
One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough. (Quote by - Hafiz of Persia)
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. (Quote by - Bob Dylan)
Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot. (Quote by - John Major)
You can't regret what you can't remember. (Quote by - Lisa Birnbach)
I've got a voice on each shoulder - one saying go home and stop being ridiculous, the other saying I might regret that decision. Golf and my body don't particularly go together, which is a bit of a bummer. I should have been England football captain. (Quote by - David Howell)
I've been aware of death since I was a little girl. My only regret willl be not being able to write about it. (Quote by - Vanna Bonta)
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)
If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed. (Quote by - Tennessee Williams)
This President has made, I regret to say, a colossal error of judgment. and judgment is what we look for in the president of the President of the United States of America. (Quote by - John F Kerry)
That's why I made decisions; they were tough decisions but we shouldn't feel bad at all - don't look back with any regrets, that's how I made decisions as governor. (Quote by - Scott Mccallum)
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. (Quote by - Harriet Beecher Stowe)
My only regret in the theatre is that I could never sit out front and watch me! (Quote by - John Barrymore)
I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end. (Quote by - Drew Barrymore)
The worst thing that one can do is not try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- and never knowing. (Quote by - David Viscott)
She did not know if she regretted having yielded to him, or whether she did not wish, on the contrary, to enjoy him the more. (Quote by - Gustave Flaubert)
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets. (Quote by - David Herbert Lawrence)
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in. (Quote by - Katherine Mansfield)
To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
One regret I have is that I did not learn more about what was happening very early, so that I could have tried to stop people from engaging in illegal activities. (Quote by - Fred F Fielding)
Better to sell it with regret than to keep it. (Quote by - Swiss Proverb)
The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
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. (Quote by - Thomas Gravesen)
Our performance during this World Cup has not been enough to progress further and both myself and all the players regret that and are hurt by that more than people realise (Quote by - David Beckham)
I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful. (Quote by - Tab Hunter)
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. (Quote by - Ingrid Bergman)
When I was an artist with the group everything was tailor-made, so it was my statement at that time. But watch the hairstyles. Probably the only thing that I regret wearing was Jerry curls. (Quote by - Grandmaster Flash)
We rarely repent of having eaten too little. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
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. (Quote by - Don Miguel Ruiz)
I have a beautiful son, I don't regret it, I'm very proud of the way that we handle our relationship and the way that we keep our son first and that's our priority. (Quote by - Nia Long)
Both of us are known for probably at times regrettable streak of independence. (Quote by - David Kay)
The first half of life is spent in longing for the second, the second half in regretting the first. (Quote by - French Proverb)
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. (Quote by - Victoria Holt)
I had the benefit of experiencing a hundred times more than the average kid. I don't look back with regret at all. It was the best life ever. (Quote by - Corin Nemec)
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like. (Quote by - Laurence Housman)
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)
I regret what I did but it was in my personal time and I therefore hope that it does not reflect on the show (Quote by - Richard Bacon)
Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake. (Quote by - Al Damato)
I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
If your going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for in the morning, sleep late. (Quote by - Henny Youngman)
Regret, which is guilt without the neurosis, enables us ... to move forward instead of back. (Quote by - Jane Adams)
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success. (Quote by - J P Getty)
I regret that I've been so busy with clinical work that I haven't been able to spend much time on experiments and outcome studies. (Quote by - Albert Ellis)
I've had regrets in the downtime and struggles in between, but I've made two movies in the past five years. I'm happy with them. (Quote by - Jason Patric)
The most horrendous thing. And I'm so terribly sad that Emily walked into that room. It's tragic and awful. I'll regret it 'till the day I die. (Quote by - Tatum Oneal)
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been!". (Quote by - John Greenleaf Whittier)
Regretting the past is like chasing after the wind. (Quote by - Russian Proverb)
You won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up. (Quote by - Bernard Cornwell)
I very much regret that our administration has pushed the whole issue of Kosovo to the back burner. (Quote by - Eliot Engel)
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. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him. (Quote by - Douglas Reed)
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. (Quote by - Charles Dudley Warner)
He who believes his wife too much will regret it in the end. (Quote by - French Proverb)
Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime. (Quote by - Imre Lakatos)
Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.' (Quote by - Margaret Cho)
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. (Quote by - Nora Ephron)
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
I do not regret one moment of my life. (Quote by - Lillie Langtry)
I regret not having enough training, I trained for a year at The Royal Court, but I very quickly went off to do films and television. (Quote by - Charlotte Rampling)
Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
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. (Quote by - Jacques Delors)
I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do. (Quote by - Rory Cochrane)
He treated me like a son and I let him down. I must take some responsibility for him getting the sack. I regret letting him down so much. (Quote by - Kieron Dyer)
I certainly don't regret my experiences because without them, I couldn't imagine who or where I would be today. Life is an amazing gift to those who have overcome great obstacles, and attitude is everything! (Quote by - Sasha Azevedo)
I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all. (Quote by - William Hung)
It's better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret. (Quote by - Jacki Joyner-Kersee)
Make the most of your regrets...To regret deeply is to live afresh. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
When one door closes, another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us. (Quote by - Alexander Graham Bell)
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. (Quote by - John Barrymore)
I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough. (Quote by - John Major)
I regret very much to hear so many people, many of my own countrymen, predicting war, stating that Europe is preparing and arming for such a conflict. (Quote by - Frank B Kellogg)
It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and sensless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart (Quote by - Jonathan Carroll)
I couldn't take it no more -- something had to be done, ... I am sorry, but I don't regret it. (Quote by - Randall Miller)
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. (Quote by - Roy Harper)
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. (Quote by - Henry James)
I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person. (Quote by - Rita Mero)
A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky. (Quote by - Kenko Yoshida)
My biggest regret is that I didn't teach my two children how to speak Spanish. (Quote by - Henry Darrow)
Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S. (Quote by - John Pople)
Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart (Quote by - Basil Rathbone)
The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
It is human nature to want to go back and fix things or change things that we regret. (Quote by - John Gray)
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. (Quote by - Arthur Brisbane)
I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did. (Quote by - Augusto Pinochet)
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
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. (Quote by - Swami Sivananda)
My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it. (Quote by - Jonathan Coe)
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. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright] (Quote by - Jude Law)
I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country. (Quote by - Nathan Hale)
It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into! (Quote by - Agnetha Faltskog)
Erm, I don't really have any regrets. (Quote by - Bobby Farrelly)
I regret the time and resources needed to undertake this but... it is right to lay this accusation to rest. (Quote by - David Blunkett)
Instant gratification is short-lived and full of regret. (Quote by - Brenda Buster)
We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us . (Quote by - La Rochefoucauld)
There's a lot of regrets about last year - maybe turning up was the biggest regret about it. (Quote by - Alan Sugar)
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow. (Quote by - L. Ron Hubbard)
Thinking of things to be done, hopes to be realized, persons to be helped, I say laughingly that I go to a multitude of funerals daily, burying so many deceased projects, so much of what I have had to let die and must bury without regret. (Quote by - Mary Madeleva)
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco. (Quote by - Emile Zola)
I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life. (Quote by - Molly Ringwald)
He has been in a very dangerous state, very near insanity, and if I have done my best for him and my children for staying here, you will neither regret nor complain of it. (Quote by - Julia Ward Howe)
As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth. (Quote by - Stephen Fry)
You know, there are two sides to Edward's theme. One is the fairy-tale theme. So, that's where I played a little closely to, and maybe a little too closely to. If so, then I did a disservice to myself and I'll regret it for the rest of my life. (Quote by - Danny Elfman)
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends. (Quote by - Jean Cocteau)
Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret. (Quote by - Mary Mccarthy)
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. (Quote by - Albert Ellis)
My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama. (Quote by - Richard E Grant)
The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and although I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets. (Quote by - Carly Fiorina)
Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future. (Quote by - William de Witt Hyde)
The only things I regret... are the things I didn't do. (Quote by - Joe Karbo)
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. (Quote by - Bram Fischer)
I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people. (Quote by - J. Danforth Quayle)
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. (Quote by - George Sand)
In 10 years we'll regret it, just like we regret losing the other buildings in Chicago Heights -- the Victoria Hotel and the Lincoln-Dixie theater. We have demolished enough masterpieces. That is a wonderful, wonderful building. (Quote by - Dominic Candeloro)
To regret deeply is to live afresh. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did. (Quote by - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
Something you need most might be something you turn away from, something you turn away from might be something you regret, and something you regret, in the end, might cost you the one chance you ever had. (Quote by - Brian Judge)
I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business. (Quote by - Bette Davis)
Regret, like a tail, comes at the end. (Quote by - Ethiopian Proverb)
But I regret not having liked history. (Quote by - Eva Herzigova)
The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret. (Quote by - Leo Buscaglia)
Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation. (Quote by - William H. Sheldon)
Live out of your imagination, not your history. (Quote by - Stephen Covey)
I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else. (Quote by - David Talbot)
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. (Quote by - Conrad Veidt)
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? (Quote by - Peter Matthiessen)
I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something. (Quote by - Jimi Hendrix)
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)
France regrets a decision which nothing justifies today and which could have heavy consequences for the region and for the world. (Quote by - Dominique De Villepin)
Regrets over the past should chasten the future. (Quote by - James Ellis)
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. (Quote by - Maurice Maeterlinck)
I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid. (Quote by - Katharine Hepburn)
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. (Quote by - Henry Laurens)
He who hesitates, regrets. (Quote by - Albanian Proverb)
Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence (Quote by - Will Henry)
I regret my choice of words which do not accurately reflect the process of the James committee, with which I have been closely involved and totally support. (Quote by - Howard Flight)
My one big regret was that there were no scenes that I could play with Eva Marie Saint. I hounded them. I said figure out some way, I just want to play a scene with this woman. But there was no way to make it work. (Quote by - Jessica Lange)
Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit. (Quote by - Rafael Sabatini)
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. (Quote by - John Barrymore)
Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in. (Quote by - Jared Harris)
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner. (Quote by - Tallulah Bankhead)
There have been loads of times I have regretted meeting Paul because I was so happy in my old life. (Quote by - Heather Mills)
Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact. (Quote by - Emile M. Cioran)
I told them that if I am with you, I'll always regret what I've done and I don't ever want to regret, (Quote by - Paul Rusesabagina)
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed. (Quote by - Owen Hart)
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. (Quote by - Maxims)
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late. (Quote by - Agatha Christie)
I regret what happened. I saw no other possibility to achieve my goal. It was not hooliganism. (Quote by - Mathias Rust)
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future. (Quote by - Fulton Oursler)
It's the things I might have said that fester. (Quote by - Clemence Dane)
I sometimes suspect him of having relations with another woman, and regret more bitterly the sacrifice which entailed upon me these months of fatigue and suffering. (Quote by - Julia Ward Howe)
Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot)
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. (Quote by - Billy Wilder)
Ask me that again next month, when you're all in Dhaka and I'm in Rome, watching Chelsea playing Lazio! (Quote by - Alec Stewart)
I regret to this day, sometimes, that my children didn't get to be as famous and as popular... but God always knows best. (Quote by - Solomon Burke)
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. (Quote by - Wendy Alexander)
That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it. (Quote by - Shawn Fanning)
I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable. (Quote by - Bob Newhart)
Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past (Quote by - Chinese Proverbs)
When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
It is about loss and dealing with regret. You have to tell people how you feel about them and deal with things before it is too late. (Quote by - Shawn Miller)
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. (Quote by - George Halas)
I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something. (Quote by - James Hetfield)
Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in. (Quote by - Katherine Mansfield)
To regret the past is to forfeit the future. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. (Quote by - Jonathan Larson)
There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
