Not Regretting Quotes

#1. You create your luck by being healthy and not regretting the past or being anxious about the future.

James Altucher

#2. When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

E.W. Howe

#3. Not regretting it later is the reason I've done at least three-quarters of the best things in my life.

Cheryl Strayed

#4. You're not living if you're not regretting.

Nicola Yoon

#5. people are here to do reckless things, stupid things they might later regret, though the point of it all is in not regretting. For the idea of the party is youth.

Lucy Foley

#6. What do I have left after running away from believing? I've come to think that even if I believe in people and get hurt it is much better than regretting not doing so.

Hotaru Odagiri

#7. And as terrified as she might have been as she lay in that room, perhaps regretting herself to the core, she had already resolved not to show any fear, no matter what was in store for her. So when

Chang-rae Lee

#8. Some things you did were worth regretting; others not.

Richard Yates

#9. I prefer buying things and figuring out where to put them later than regretting not buying them.

Christian Louboutin

#10. Regretting the past does not prevent me from repeating it.

Mason Cooley

#11. Many of our efforts to intentionally craft and subsequently force our limited vision on life has more often than not resulted in some degree of cataclysm or schism or division or any number of other things that aren't all that savory.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#12. 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.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#13. Heden chose to shut up. He could not remember ever regretting silence.

Matthew Colville

#14. My position was a common one; I wanted to do the right thing but could not help regretting the damnable expense.

Robertson Davies

#15. We can regret something that we did , we can regret something that we didn't do; but the only thing that we can not afford to regret is regretting being ourselves

Hisham Fawzi

#16. Grandmother was always regretting the old days-she was younger in old days,and the sun was warmer in old days,and cream did not turn so sour in old days-it was always the old days!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#17. Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

Jerome K. Jerome

#18. Live in a way that would not leave us regretting after so many years on earth.

Sunday Adelaja

#19. I'm taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I'm taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying what you already know and dismantling it. I thought it would be right up my alley. I can't tell you how much it's not me.

Helen Hunt

#20. I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.

Brittany Finamore

#21. Instead of regretting what we cannot do, it is better to do anything we can do. Even if what we do does not bring us to our goal, it brings us much closer to it.

CLAMP

#22. You have a way of turning the established order on its head." Instantly regretting that, he forced his face to relax; Lynx must not see anger in his eyes.

Gwynn White

#23. I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

Michael Caine

#24. 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.

Vaclav Havel

#25. Good Lord, I'm regretting this now," I muttered. "I have never - ever - smelled BO this bad in my life. And I once had s'mores wit a Sasquatch."
"Hang out with him for awhile," Mort gasped. "Eventually it's not so bad."
"Wow. Really?"
"No. Not really.

Jim Butcher

#26. Heredity. It's like going to a fortune-teller and regretting it. As human beings, we tend not to like things we can't avoid. Death, for instance.

Jo Nesbo

#27. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Henry David Thoreau

#28. The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

Daniel Craig

#29. [When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advantages squandered.

Anthony Bourdain

#30. 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.

Michael Caine

#31. It is true that I had wanted to die , but that is peculiarly different from regretting having been born. Overwhelmingly, I was enormously glad to have been born, grateful for life, and I couldn't imagine not wanting to pass on life to someone else.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#32. Not truly living in the present moment and later regretting is like closing your eyes when a peacock is dancing, only to want to see it dance once it is gone.-RVM

R.v.m.