Regret Quotes

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.

It's better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.

My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, that I wasn't more careful about making sure that she was O.K. with it. I just sort of didn't ask. So that's how that goes.

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.

I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.

There's not a second I regret having a child on my own.

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

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.

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.

People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

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.

You have to be young to be able to do things like that. Now I'm more cautious. I'm proud that I was able to do what I did - psychologically it was a great wall to climb - but sometimes I regret it.

I don't regret setting bombs.

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.

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.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.

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.

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

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.

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.

I had six silly tattoos done when I was young and I bitterly regret them. I've thought about laser surgery, but that leaves a scar, so I'm just leaving them.

I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it.