Top 100 Do You Regret Quotes
#1. Rarely do you regret what you have done nearly as much as what you have failed to do.
Jeffrey Fry
#2. Do you regret those days?'
'No,' replied Marcelle acidly: 'but I regret the life I might have had.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#3. In life you don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do.
Hugh Jackman
#4. Do you regret your divorce? Was getting a divorce the best or worst thing that could have ever happened to you? Did you marry again? Will you marry again?
London Tracy
#5. How do you regret one of the best nights of your entire life? You don't. You remember every word, every look. Even when it hurts, you still remember.
Jenny Han
#6. Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down.
Scott Baio
#7. 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.
Katharine Hepburn
#8. My point is,' Jamie continued, 'not everything's perfect, especially at the beginning. And it's all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it ... that's when you get into trouble.'
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Sarah Dessen
#9. Are you sorry? Do you wish you could do it all again and go off and write novels instead of being a teacher?
No. You can't trade what is for what might have been.
Lurlene McDaniel
#11. Sometimes jn your life you make a decision and you find yourself questioning it. A lot. You don't regret it, exactly.you know that you probably made the best choice and that you're probably better off for it. But you do spend a lot of time wondering what the hell you were thinking
K.A. Tucker
#12. How do you sort the treasure from the trash? When does something move from sentimental to disposable? And if you think you are ready to part with it, are you really? If you throw it away today, will you regret it tomorrow? Or will it be something you never think about again?
Wendelin Van Draanen
#13. how do you get beyond the self-doubt and indecision? How do you find the truth?" "You can never know for sure, Dors, you just choose and go on. Usually there follows regret instead of reward, so you just choose again. In the end, you fade away.
Jeffery Brown
#14. If you're gonna do something tonight that you'll regret tomorrow morning, sleep late
Henny Youngman
#15. What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has been, in any moderate degree, healthy or peaceful)? That rich charm, which the least possession had for us, was in consequence of the poorness of our treasures.
John Ruskin
#16. At the end, regret only what you didn't do.
Charlie Rose
#17. If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.
Iyanla Vanzant
#18. 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.
Randy Pausch
#19. Live your life like the novels that you love to read. Only do the things that when you look back, you are proud of what you accomplished, feel good about how you treated others and didn't regret not doing to trying something. Every day is a new chapter, write something.
Taylor Berke
#20. How do you live with a regret so deep it cuts through every part of you?
Tiffany Snow
#21. Don't do something that you'll regret later.
Kim Tae-yeon
#22. Let your heart lead you, do not be afraid, for there will be much to regret if reason and sense and fear are your only markers
Tara Conklin
#23. When you are stressed, if you take three deep breaths before you say or do anything, this will help prevent you from making choices you might regret later.
Ilchi Lee
#24. 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.
Aubrey O'Day
#25. Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.
Mark Twain
#26. What love will make you do
All the things that we accept
Be the things that we regret
Ashanti
#27. Ain't no deserving, or otherwise,' Silo said, his bass voice rolling out from deep in his chest. 'There's what is, and what ain't, and there's what you do about it. Regret's just a way to make you feel okay when you're not making amends. A man can waste a life with regrets.
Chris Wooding
#28. When you get older, it's not about what you did that you regret, it's what you didn't do.
Grace Slick
#29. If you do not master the art of self discipline- you will succumb to the emotions and reality of regret.
John Assaraf
#30. Never do things that you will regret later.
Kim Tae-yeon
#31. Live your life in such a way that if God should greet you with "How are you?", your answer will be "I am how you wanted me to be"! Live life without regrets!
Israelmore Ayivor
#32. You said you'd cooperate."
I knew I'd regret my promise, just not quite this soon. "You don't wear pink!"
"Yeah, well, no one thinks I'm in league with the devil."
She shoves it into my chest. I narrow my eyes. "I do.
Eliza Crewe
#33. I'm a cat! Cats don't go round feeling *sorry*! Or guilty! We never *regret* anything! Do you know what it feels like saying, 'Hello food, can you talk?' That's not how a cat is supposed to behave!
Terry Pratchett
#34. In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit.
Alfred De Musset
#35. There are going to be more moments in your life that you regret not doing than there will be moments you regret doing. So do them, and please, don't hold back.
Sophie Abbott
#36. The regrets I have are so minor. You know, would I leave my Keith Richards hat, with the silver skull on it, on the stool at the coffee shop at LaGuardia? I wouldn't do that again. But overall, no, I don't have any regrets.
Hunter S. Thompson
#37. Don't regret anything you do, because in the end it makes you who you are.
Jared Leto
#38. I don't regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn't pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
Al Pacino
#39. No woman will ever take care of my children but me, she said. I will not allow it, do you understand?
And after I am gone Madge Toxley, if you try to make them yours, then you will live to regret it.
John Boyne
#40. Might paint something I might want to hang here someday, might write something I might want to say to you someday, might do something I'd be proud of someday. Mark my words, I might be something someday.
Sara Quin
#41. In 10,000 years you will not regret anything you didn't have or do in this life.
Matt Chandler
#42. Love does strange things to you sometimes. It can twist you into saying and doing things that you know you'll regret and still, you do them.
C.K. Kelly Martin
#43. If we are talking about choice and regret, what has happened cannot be undone. And dwelling on the past changes nothing. You will only drive yourself to insanity if you do.
Julie Kagawa
#44. I don't deserve your forgiveness, but I'm going to do my best to make sure you never regret it.
Lisa Kessler
#46. No such thing as time travel, he'd rumbled patiently, once. Only live with what you've done, and try in the future to do what you're happy to live with.
Richard K. Morgan
#47. Deeply vulnerable and hurting within as you act tough outside. You do need people; you need them so much so that it scares you to death. You drive them away so they don't get too close; yet you regret it every time you do.
Rachel Reiland
#48. It's not the intensity of pain, but the level of stupidness that makes you do things you regret.
Sarvesh Jain
#49. Only regret the things you don't do
Nicola May
#50. I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.
Eva Longoria
#51. I know you may not believe it, but the last thing I want to do is hurt you or do anything that would make you regret that we've met.
- Jeremy
Nicholas Sparks
#52. He meant it and he didn't. Both. At the same time.
'It doesn't matter if you meant it or not. This is the life you're living. It's not temporary and it's not pretend and there's no do-over...You don't get to regret us.
Nicola Yoon
#53. 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.
Bill Nighy
#54. Regrets are useless, " the Fool replied. "All you can do is start from where you are.
Robin Hobb
#55. There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. every part of your life has unfolded just right. And so -now- knowing all that you know from where you now stand, now what do you want? The answers are now coming forth to you. Go forth in joy, and get on with it.
Abraham Hicks
#56. You will make mistakes. You will make decisions, and sometimes you will regret those choices. Sometimes there won't be a right choice, just the best of several bad options. I don't need to tell you that you can do this-you know you can.
Sarah J. Maas
#57. In life do what you want. Because
you'll regret it later on when you can no
longer do it
Christian O. Ortiz
#58. When resistance closes the door against you, remember that persistence holds the key. Don't give up too early; insist to endure to the end ... You will never regret it!
Israelmore Ayivor
#59. You can't change the past,Aunt Lou used to say.Oh, but I wanted to;that was the one thing I really wanted to do
Margaret Atwood
#60. You have to imagine your own death. When your time comes, what will you regret not doing? What will you wish you had more time to do, and what will have seemed trivial? Think of what you fear losing - those are the things that matter most.
Jeff Goins
#61. It's yad that propels us, like a motor, onward. Yad is like envy, but it's not simply that. It's like spite, rage, anger, but more elegant, more complicated. It's like pity for someone, regret for something you did or did not do, for a chance you missed, for an opportunity you squandered.
Miroslav Penkov
#62. At one point, we were all fearful. But as you get older, it's the things you don't do that you regret, more so than the things you do. When fear knocks, answer.
Robin Roberts
#63. Why do what you will regret? Why bring tears upon yourself? Do only what you do not regret, And fill yourself with joy.
Gautama Buddha
#64. You only get so much time to do something that you enjoy or love to do. If you can continue doing it, you might as well, because I don't want to live in regret. I don't want to be the person sitting behind a desk, wondering, 'Did I do it right, did I finish it off, did I really give it my all?'
Troy Dumais
#65. Do you ever see someone doing something cool and you say to yourself, "I could do that" ... And then you don't? Ask yourself, why not? Honestly, why not? You really may not have a reason to do it, but if you'd regret not doing it? That's a whole other story.
Richie Norton
#66. Holding anger is a poison.
Never regret something that made you smile.
Do not do unto others what you do not want others to do unto you.
John Green
#67. When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.
Jack Nicholson
#68. Sometimes you do things you regret, but there's nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors close behind you. You move on.
Neil Gaiman
#69. Make the best of where you are and do your best to line up your Energy from where you are, because any bit of struggle or any bit of regret only holds your cork under the water and doesn't allow you to connect with the Energy that would allow anything to improve.
Esther Hicks
#70. Milo was concerned for Vilenthe she had a point the words repeated in her mind what makes you think she gives a shit you?Just think about that for a second before you do anything you'll regret.
Charon Lloyd-Roberts
#71. 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.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#72. I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No. That's speculation.
Chuck Yeager
#73. Bunter: "I assure your lordship that for the firsttime in my existence I regret that I have made no practical study of campanology."
Wimsey: "I am always so delighted to find that there are things you cannot do.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#74. Hands up if you're ready to do something you'll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.
Florence Welch
#75. Be kind to yourself. Remember that when you abuse yourself, you will experience the anger, regret, and apathy of the bully as well as the depression, anxiety, and insecurity of the victim. Whatever you do, be kind to yourself.
Vironika Tugaleva
#76. You know what, you need to stay out of my bedroom. You have your own."
He smiled. "I know I do. I see it quite often. I just prefer your bed. It smells better."
I made a face. "It smells better? What does your bed smell like? Regret and bad taste?
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#77. Do not regret the things you didn't do," Tamika said. "If you're going to regret something, it has to be the things you have done. We are not made up of the inverse of our experiences. If we were what we didn't do, I would be a ballerina.
Rose Christo
#78. Whatever it is that you want to do, do it today because you can handle the pain of trying hard now but you won't be able to handle the pain of regret later.
Dhaval Gajera
#79. Inez? I'm sorry I bit you," he said with sincere regret, and then inspiration made him add, "Bastien made me do it.
Lynsay Sands
#80. I see something between you two. I do not see it often. You have something rare and precious. You must treat your love like the most valuable thing you will ever own. Don't ever let it get away from you. You will regret it your entire life, I assure you.
Andrea Laurence
#81. Do you have to regret spending money when you earn money? And when it is time to spend, you should be strong that you got the opportunity to pay off your debt. Income is one's responsibility and expense is the means to clear off the responsibility.
Dada Bhagwan
#82. Either do it or don't do it. You'll regret it either way
Jeff Ball
#83. Do what is right, and you'll have no lasting regrets. Do what is right, and put yourself on the side of truth, goodness, and the best of life.
Ralph Marston
#84. Hansen: I do not look back because I cannot change the past. You should not, either. That is one of the first things you must learn as a hunter - do not regret what you do not have.
Ruby Dixon
#85. I do have a very deep sense of regret that there was a conflict and that people lost their lives, and you know, many were responsible for that - and a lot of them wear pinstripe suits in London today.
Martin McGuinness
#86. Never do anything you'll regret. Never regret anything you do.
Lea Mishell
#87. While you're telling yourself you'll 'do it tomorrow', I'm doing it today. And while I'm living my success, you'll be using words like 'lucky' to mask your jealousy and regret.
Steve Maraboli
#88. On the field, sometimes passion overwhelms you, and you do things you regret afterward.
Luis Suarez
#89. Then trust me. I think the safest place for me is with you, and I won't regret it. I don't regret anything. The things that we do and the things that happen ... to us," I gulped and pushed down memories, "make us who we are.
Shelly Crane
#90. Would you choose to be like me, if you had the choice?" "I do choose it. You regret what you are only because you think you must keep others away from you. It will not keep me away.
Tiffany Reisz
#91. The only thing worse than regretting the things you've done is regretting the things you didn't do.
Samantha Leahy
#92. Do not waste the moment of your life which comes together with death because you will bitterly regret the alienation of your own self.
Sorin Cerin
#93. I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
Soren Kierkegaard
#94. Because I love you. I love you too much, like I always do, but this time I don't regret it and I don't wish I could take it back because you need it. So take it from me, H. Take it all from me.
Laurelin Paige
#95. It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.
Winifred Holtby
#96. He tilted my head up with his index finger. Tingles spread on my skin. Pain, obstacles, betrayal and all shitty things that happen in life shape everyone, just as much as good things do. Don't regret anything if in the end you can say you're an amazing woman.
Stephanie Witter
#97. At the end of our lives, we mostly regret the risks we didn't take, the dreams we didn't do and the love we failed to give. If those things are going to be important to you at the end, make them important to you right now.
Robin S. Sharma
#98. What would you do in life if you knew you could not fail? What would you deeply regret never risking?
Mike Rabe
#99. All I know is, I was trying to win the football game. And the bottom line is, you have to do what you think is right. You have to go with your gut. And if you don't do that, then I think you regret a lot of things later on.
Mike Singletary
#100. Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
Aaron Burr
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