No Regret Quotes

#1. I have no regret about making 'Heroine'; rather, I am happy I made it. I never shun my films; I stick to it.

Madhur Bhandarkar

#2. I'm going for it. Every part of my body says to jump and fly, no matter how hard voices like Shay and my parents try to ground me. I understand their realism, but I don't want to look back and regret not taking the plunge.

Krista Ritchie

#3. He dressed quickly in silence, refusing her tissues. He shakily pulled a wad of uncounted notes from his wallet, abandoned them in the no man's land between, and escaped in an indecent haste, leaving the shameful tableau in his wake.

Darren White

#4. They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.

Selena Kitt

#6. Sometimes things come out of your mouth that you regret later on. Or no, not regret. You say something so razor-sharp that the person you say it to carries it around with them for the rest of their life.

Herman Koch

#7. I will do today that which is of today and pay no heed to the tomorrow; nor waste regrets on that which was yesterday.

Walter Russell

#8. Was I the best husband? No. And I regret it.

Stuart Rose

#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

#10. 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.'

Natalia Vodianova

#11. There is no greater ache than this: guilt and regret in equal measure.

Nathan Hill

#12. I have always lived my life exactly as I wanted. I've tried to please no one but myself ... but I'm entirely content. I can sit back in my old age and not regret a single moment, not wish to change a single thing. It's what I wish for you ... a life with no regrets.

Katharine Hepburn

#13. The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#14. Regret was for people with nothing to defend, people who had no water.

Mindy McGinnis

#15. No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.

Esther Williams

#16. No matter what happens i choose to value the memories of the good times, grow from the lessons of the bad times because i don't regret a single moment of it, every detail made me who i am.

Tilicia Haridat

#17. You must not procrastinate. Rather, you should make preparations so that even if you did die tonight, you would have no regrets. If you develop an appreciation for the uncertainty and imminence of death, your sense of the importance of using your time wisely will get stronger and stronger.

Dalai Lama

#18. I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#19. 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.

Jack McDevitt

#20. If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.

Thomas Sowell

#21. If only certain things had been preventable, his life would have unfurled in front of him as intended, like a lush Oriental carpet. No surprises, no detours. Just a thick tapestry of days and nights that at the end of his time on earth, he could roll up and proudly claim as his own.

Shilpa Agarwal

#22. I have no regrets. I have not one single regret. I was born with a wonderful DNA where I felt that my life was not a race against someone else or another artist. It was probably internal.

Andy Kim

#23. But the first thing that we have to do is to say, I walk towards the tunnel, and I'm on my own, and I'm not afraid. And I have no regrets.

Jonathan Bowden

#24. The best advice I ever received? Simple: Have no regrets.

Richard Branson

#25. I have no regrets and if I had nine lives I would have gladly given them all up for my country.

Melchora Aquino

#26. He who does not regret the break-up of the Soviet Union has no heart; he who wants to revive it in its previous form has no head.

Vladimir Putin

#27. What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is ... It was death. I chose life.

Michael Cunningham

#28. Isaac didn't understand heartache. Or regret or longing or divided loyalties. Or anger or shattered trust or betrayal. Such things had no clarity. They involved expectations of another's behavior, and Isaac had no such expectations.

Mary Doria Russell

#29. It seemed to him that every time he made one choice in his life, he said no to another. All of those things he could not do or be were huddled inside of him; they might spring up at any moment, and he would be hobbled with regret.

Ayana Mathis

#30. Allow me to let go, let it hurt if it has
to, let me regret if i have to.
Aslong as my heart feels alive once
again that's all i strive for.

Morgan Chabane

#31. Patti, did art get us?'
I looked away, not really wanting to think about it. 'I don't know, Robert. I don't know.'
Perhaps it did, but no one could regret that. Only a fool would regret being had by art; or a saint.

Patti Smith

#32. People in Russia say that those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those that do regret it have no brain.

Vladimir Putin

#33. I never said you had to like it. You have to accept it. No regret."
- Clare Harding

From the current book in writing BUMPKIN by Lani Brown.

Lani Brown

#34. My main regret in life is that there is no MacArthur Fellowship awarded in the field of Panda Satire.

Anne Belov

#35. Some thoughts should never be conceived. Some questions should never be asked, because they have no answer, and the questions themselves serve only to haunt with grinding guilt and second guessing.

Bobby Adair

#36. Other men have created FTSE 100 companies. But I believe no man has done this in his lifetime without acquisition or borrowing. My one regret is handing over the reigns.

Peter Hargreaves

#37. And if you ask how I regret that parting?
It is like the flowers falling at spring's end,
confused, whirled in a tangle.
What is the use of talking! And there is no end of talking
There is no end of things in the heart.

Ezra Pound

#38. You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.

Nina LaCour

#39. The superior man accords with the course of the Mean. Though he may be all unknown, unregarded by the world, he feels no regret - It is only the sage who is able for this.

Confucius

#40. Yes, there was one. Solitary, gleaming. A regret. It was that, all her life, she had said no. From the beginning, she had let so few people in.

Lauren Groff

#41. I live my life with no regrets. Each decision of mine has define my life in a certain way

Katrina Kaif

#42. Why would anyone want to turn back time? There is no meaning in regret, no point in thinking about thing I could have done. Because there is no guarantee that any decision is the right one.

Kazuya Minekura

#43. That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.

Siri Hustvedt

#44. The acme of futility was to regret a pleasure that was past, and he had no intention of doing so.

Winston Graham

#45. No amount of regret can change the past. No amount of anxiety can change the future.

Karen Salmansohn

#46. First, forgive. Second, forget by choosing not to dwell on that which is forgiven and in the past. We have no right to keep in front of us what God has put behind Him.

David Jeremiah

#47. The most important decision I ever made in my career was to live my life in sports as honestly and ethically as possible. Never having compromised my values allows me to look back on my life with no regrets and feel satisfaction in what I was able to accomplish.

Greg LeMond

#48. Regrets are ridiculous, so I don't regret, no.

Nicole Kidman

#49. No apologies. No matter what happens, I will never, not in a thousand tragic outcomes, ever regret loving you.

Sara Raasch

#50. There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.

P.D. James

#51. 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

#52. Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets ...

Jimmy Buffett

#53. Evelyn, please, you have no idea how much I regret that day."
"I think I have some idea."
"I have thought every day about you - your loss. And every day, I only saw how I would make things worse if I were here."
"And I only thought of ways you would have made it better.

Tarun Shanker

#54. If I were to die today, I would have some concern for Tibet. But I know that I have personally done as much as I can to use my existence for others. So I have no regret.

Dalai Lama

#55. 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.

Jessica Lange

#56. There's no reason to regret anything. Regret is a waste.

Kristen Stewart

#57. I enjoy every opportunity and live every moment. And that is why I have no regrets. It's when you are not scared of losing that you win everything. Very often I take cabs to travel during the course of the day because I enjoy talking to cabbies from different parts of India.

Shailender Singh

#58. Regret comes late. Don't wait for him!

Toba Beta

#59. Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.

Alain De Botton

#60. There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do?
Morrie Schwartz

Mitch Albom

#61. 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

#62. I don't come from a musical family and didn't go to Julliard or anything, but I had this kind of vision of stuff that was so powerful that I just needed to find it. I have no regrets.

Andy Kim

#63. Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I've no regrets.

Roman Payne

#64. Then next time bring more water, but don't cry for this time. There should be no room in your life for regret. If in the moment of doing you felt clarity, you felt certainty, then why feel regret later?

Yaa Gyasi

#65. I think I hate it here because there is no love here anymore. I regret the effort I desperately made here.

Marilyn Monroe

#66. Living to give to others, working hard for your destiny
and fighting for your dreams are the battles you will never regret no matter how long it takes.

Michael Hutchison

#67. The book told unpleasant truths, and anyone who doesn't feel a qualm of regret at throwing a blanket over the truth is an asshole with no conscience.

Stephen King

#68. I have no regrets. To regret my past would be to admit I am not satisfied with who or what I have become. Everything I have accomplished and all I have been exposed to - good or evil - has created what sits before you.

Scott Hildreth

#69. Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall is painfully perfect.

Mordecai Richler

#70. When we are certain that the way to accomplish our own wishes is to help others, we have no regrets.

Sakyong Mipham

#71. If everything in the past has value, then there's no reason for regret, ever.

James A. Owen

#72. 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 .

William Westmoreland

#73. No, never regret destroying something written. Some things are best left hidden, especially if they can seriously hurt someone if they are found.

Lynne King

#74. Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;
I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#75. If you make the most of what you are doing, there is no way to regret what you are doing.

Tom Sileo

#76. But I am very persistent. I never give up on the things that I want. This ... you and me ... it's inevitable. Theren't no use in fighting, Kami. It's going to happen. And when you are madly in love with me, the only thing you'll regret is not falling sooner.

S.L. Jennings

#77. I shouldn't have looked. If I could go back in time, I would have. I had no idea that one look would devastate me. Weeks from now I would regret that one look, for one reason and one reason only. His eyes held my ruin.

Rachel Van Dyken

#78. I don't feel a yearning or a sense of missed opportunities. I don't have many regrets. So that's a nice feeling. To have no regrets and still have enough sense of adventure to take on risk.

Michael J. Fox

#79. I wish I could do it again, only I wish I could take all of the animals out of the environmental fur farm ... I have absolutely no regrets, and I hope the same thing continues to happen at MSU and every other college campus that does animal research.

Rod Coronado

#80. Do you regret those days?'
'No,' replied Marcelle acidly: 'but I regret the life I might have had.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#81. Leading with our heart requires replacing fear with faith. It means releasing the desire to control situations or people, or see the future, or change a past event. We accept our personal power by purposefully leaving no loose ends, so we move from day to day without regret.

Regina Cates

#82. My reaction to your news is delighted astonishment that Lanark has been judged more popular than a book by Ian Rankin, and only regret that this wonderful honour had no money attached to it!

Christopher Brookmyre

#83. I have no regrets. If I wanted to keep acting, I would have never left the cinema.

Brigitte Bardot

#84. There's no acceptance in watching someone die. There's only a lifetime of regret from knowing you couldn't stop it from happening.

Jewel E. Ann

#85. 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

#86. I like to live in 'fear'
becauSe, you are ready to face
any unexpected thing to become
and you have 'no regret' for it.

Sumit Lakhani

#87. 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

#88. It was no good to look back, to apologize for what had happened, or to wonder what could have been different.

Lily Blake

#89. There is no reason to regret that I cannot finish the church. I will grow old but others will come after me. What must always be conserved is the spirit of the work, but its life has to depend on the generations it is handed down to and with whom it lives and is incarnated

Antonio Gaudi

#90. Does changing for the better absolve you of all the wicked shit you did before?
No. March fills my head like a warm glow. Instead you receive the twin delights of guilt and regret.

Ann Aguirre

#91. If you have no regrets from the life you have lived,
your biggest regret should be the life you haven't lived.

Robert Sauber

#92. There's no such thing as yesterday, he thought dully. Memory is just today, happening over and over again, stamped indelibly with regret.

Helen Maryles Shankman

#93. I was trying to convince myself I could learn to be gay - but no. That's one of my great regrets.

Moby

#94. No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

William Shatner

#95. No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.

Holly Black

#96. Maintain your speed no matter what happens! For the tikbalang shall chase you
I regret to say ... to the ends of the earth!

Arnold Arre

#97. No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.

Thomas More

#98. When it is time to part, then it is time to part. There should be no regrets. The beauty of marriage is like the fleeting perfection of a snowflake.

Ming-Dao Deng

#99. Faythe ... ?" The tremor in his voice broke my heart. Then understanding surfaced, and his tear-filled eyes searched mine desperately. "No. No," he whispered through clenched teeth. "This was not wrong. It's the only thing I've done right in months. Don't you dare regret this.

Rachel Vincent

#100. Maybe that's why I get frustrated sometimes, because there's no one to blame for how our lives have turned out. I wouldn't change any of the things I've done, but at the same time I wish things were different than they are. I have no regrets, but there's also no satisfaction in where I am.

Chris Dietzel