Top 100 Quotes About Regrets
#1. As of today, I have absolutely no regrets. I think I am a mature person who can take things in stride. I'm grateful for people in my past. They helped me get to where I am, wherever that is. But now, I am thinking for myself and sitting in on all the business transactions.
Marilyn Monroe
#2. It's better to have a pocket full of regrets than to never have lived.
John Rzeznik
#3. To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.
Robin Marantz Henig
#4. Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.
Edward Teller
#5. The most difficult thing about my job is that I do a lot of 19-hour days. It's really difficult to have a life, never mind a relationship. I don't have any regrets, really. I'm quite content. I'm very stubborn and persistent. I just keep working.
Kim Cattrall
#6. When you no longer worry about the future, and no longer have regrets about the past, you exist purely in the moment. If you concentrate on that moment you instinctively know, that as long as you have life you have hope.
Enjoy the moment. Breathe easily. Relax.
Paul Wilson
#7. The regrets about all she had let go flooded her. Where had all that enterprise gone? All that energy? Why had she never traveled? Or had more sex when she could? She had bleached and annihilated every waking moment of the last twenty years. Anything, rather than feel.
Rachel Joyce
#8. I just wish, maybe, that I'd started conducting earlier. I was about 40 when I started. Apart from that I don't really have any regrets. Is that bad?
Neville Marriner
#9. We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.
Dalai Lama
#10. Pining for what could have been only holds people back from living their lives now. Life is full of surprises, and it doesn't help us to fixate on regrets or try to recover what has been lost.
Jeff Goins
#11. I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.
Nicole Polizzi
#12. She hated him in that moment and she adored him. If she'd had any regrets, they'd gone.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#13. What's it like to face your own mortality? "It makes you think," I reply. "The big things, the small things. The dreams, the regrets.
Leylah Attar
#14. Let there be no hesitations, no regrets, no compromises - they are at once cowardly and vain.
Nikki Gemmell
#15. I don't like to dwell on regrets. They tell you that you have not come to terms with what you've done.
Joel Dicker
#16. You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.
Kim Kardashian
#17. As seemingly impossible as it may seem of having zero regrets, when I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.
Apolo Ohno
#18. I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability.
Robert Redford
#19. Treat every moment as if it is your last, because in life everything must come to an end, we don't know when or how so enjoy every moment for what it is and have no regrets.
Mark Burns
#20. Jeb Bush is facing criticism after it was just revealed that he checked off his race as 'Hispanic' on a voter registration form back in 2009. When asked if he regrets it now, Bush said, 'Si.'
Jimmy Fallon
#21. I could never understand how he always seemed so sure of himself. But now I did. It was because Connor really did know what kind of person he was. He had no regrets because he always shot from his heart.
Siobhan Vivian
#22. I try not to have regrets and to learn from every experience.
Tommy Hilfiger
#24. Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.
Nancy Gibbs
#25. Wishes left on your lips
The mark of their wings.
Regrets fly kites in your eyes.
Carl Sandburg
#26. There is no time for regrets. Regrets relate to the past. We have been there. We need to progress to the future.
Marilyn L. Rice
#27. Regrets are passions that aren't pursued.
Mel Walsh
#28. If you are looking for a happy book about beautiful people, this is the wrong story. If you are looking for a narrative without emotion, without regrets, and without mistakes, this is definitely the wrong story.
R.K. Ryals
#29. The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the pleasures it retraces, and we feel them again rather than recollect them.
Madame De Stael
#30. Your ability to discern key people in your life and organization before you bring them in saves you lots of time, trouble, and regrets... Watch out!!!
Assegid Habtewold
#31. Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.
Cameron Diaz
#32. Regrets. Sure you think about regrets, but it's not regret for the things you've done that occupy you, as much as it is a longing for the things you'll never have a chance to do.
Lori Lansens
#33. When I look back, I don't have regrets. In the moment I am really, really hard on myself, I'm definitely my own worst critic and can be my own worst enemy, and I'm trying very hard not to be that.
Emma Stone
#34. Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future
And focus intelligently on the present.
This is the best way of ensuring a positive future.
Chinmayananda Saraswati
#35. If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires, there shall be no regrets.
Bessie Coleman
#36. I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show 'Nanny 911' occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.
Amanda Donohoe
#37. Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.
Kathryn Schulz
#38. I want to live in such a way that, if it is only twenty-nine more days or twenty-nine more weeks, or if it is twenty-nine more years or more, I want to faithful with each one of those-that I could go and meet the Lord without regrets, without unfinished business.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#39. The biggest regret? This may be one of those years I have no regrets.
Billy Joel
#40. Will you have any regrets once she's dead?
Brooklyn's question and her voice echoed in my head as I watched her walking to her house, her hips swaying tantalizingly at every step. A heavy weight fell on my shoulders because I didn't have to ponder that question to find the answer.
Stephanie Witter
#41. When standing before certain men the philosopher regrets that thinkers are but perishable tissue, the artist that perishable tissue has to think.
Thomas Hardy
#42. When you have given your best, you are left with no regrets.
Abdul Mueed
#43. Wherever you are, be all there. I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.
Ann Voskamp
#44. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.
Haruki Murakami
#45. Part of me regrets ever meeting him. Because this hurts too much.
Kristen Callihan
#46. I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling.
Brad Pitt
#47. no matter how far you travelled, you couldn't leave behind the fears and regrets and grievances that cluttered up the cargo hold of your mind.
Terry Pratchett
#48. If you don't learn from your mistakes, then they become regrets.
John Cena
#49. I'm sorry," I whisper.
He takes my face in his hands. "I'm not. I'm not sorry I met you. I'm not sorry I fell in love with you. I have no regrets, Zahra, and neither should you. I love you.
Jessica Khoury
#50. The spider had no confusion, no despair, no regrets. No metaphysical doubt, no moral complications. Probably. Unlike me. I
Haruki Murakami
#51. Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.
Robert Breault
#52. Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears
To-day of past Regrets and future Fears
To-morrow?
Why, To-morrow I may be
Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years.
Omar Khayyam
#53. I have a lot of regrets about what I've done. If I had to do it over again, I never would have left the Mets. I'm very thankful for all that Mr. (George) Steinbrenner did for me when I was with the Yankees, but I wish I had stayed in New York with the Mets.
Darryl Strawberry
#54. The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#55. I have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I've been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn't change anything. I'm happy with who I am!
Alan Cumming
#56. Surely, if there could be regrets in heaven, the saints might mourn that they did not live longer here to do more good.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#57. We all have regrets. Anyone who says they have none is a liar, and anyone who thinks they'll live without acquiring some is a fool.
Karen Amanda Hooper
#58. I can't figure out how they decide on those things. So I don't have any regrets about anything that I did that didn't get a lot of people to see it.
William Petersen
#59. Regrets will eat you alive if you let them. You gotta outrun them. Find something in the now.
Annabeth Albert
#61. Be sure that your praise songs are numbered higher than your sorrowful dirges and your utmost hope, firmer than your woeful regrets. Be positive.
Israelmore Ayivor
#62. I am but little disposed to put things in writing. One almost always regrets doing so.
Charles Baudelaire
#63. I'm one of those fellas who's got lots of regrets, but I don't regret having regrets.
Lou Dobbs
#64. We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.
Libba Bray
#66. You made a decision given your life circumstances and you have to be ok with that. Regrets that can't be change is just torturing yourself.
Michelle Singletary
#67. I'm trying to avoid having regrets about missing opportunities. That would be the worst thing. Like having an audience waiting, and not working hard enough, and coming out with a record that disappointed them.
James Mercer
#68. Don't be blurred by impulse, to avoid regrets, refrain from doing things that will make you regret.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#69. I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.
John Lennon
#70. We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.
John Christopher
#71. I truly believe that regret is the only wound the soul does not recover from, and so I'm trying to live without regrets ... Each day is another chance to be swept away.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#72. 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.
John Major
#73. Whenever you lose someone you love, you have those lingering regrets. You wish you could hug them or kiss them or talk to them ... I don't want those regrets
Lisa De Jong
#74. I believe one of the most important reasons I am here today is to practice forgiveness and to learn the power of it as a gift to others and myself. By focusing on forgiveness in my life today, I am promoting my healing and lessening my regrets.
Lisa J. Shultz
#75. The difference between a moral person and a person of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, made out of weakness and tries to make amends with their life when they find the opportunity to say they are sorry is lost.
Shannon L. Alder
#76. the wise man never assumes anything, never regrets anything, is never wrong, never changes his mind.
Robert Harris
#77. An opportunity, no matter how small it is, is still worth a golden chance. So take it or have regrets for the rest of your life.
Francisca Olivia
#78. Leave it all on the track. Live with no regrets. Spend less time looking in life's rearview mirror and more time looking ahead at the road stretched before us and the opportunities that await. Why not, indeed?
Mike Dellosso
#79. You know what the secret to a happy life is?"
"No regrets. Just live in the moment.
Nicole Christie
#80. The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
#81. Write your dreams down, toss them into the sea, and make a wish, Isabel. Life is too short to live with regrets, own today as if it was your last.
A.M. Willard
#82. You don't get old until you replace dreams with regrets.
Troy Dumais
#83. You might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.
Ilona Andrews
#84. I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets.
Grace Kelly
#85. As long as we draw breath, we owe it to the ones we loved and lost to live out our lives without wasting them on regrets.
Sharon Sala
#86. Regrets are something you can't really have as an actor, because ultimately you'll end up destroying yourself ... there's a lot of disappointment in this business.
Henry Cavill
#87. Life is totally unbelievable. Enjoy it at its fullest, with no regrets.
Gloria E. Gherardi
#88. The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
Helen Rowland
#89. No more mistakes. No more regrets. It was her life now, and she was going to enjoy it.
Bernadette Marie
#90. The rocking chair test." "Pretend that you're one hundred years old," Alicia would say, "and you're sitting out on your front porch in a rocking chair. Now think back on your life. What was it like? Do you have any regrets?
Suzanne Brockmann
#91. Death was not prejudiced by mortal things such as station or gender. It came for kings and queens and prostitutes alike, often leaving the living with regrets. What might we have done differently if we'd known the end was so near?
Kerri Maniscalco
#92. I have some regrets that I might have hurt men in my life. But they can take care of themselves.
China Machado
#95. Yet if I was asked to do this again - in fact, if I was ever asked to repeat any of my experiences - I'd have to say, fuck it, bring them on. I've no regrets.
This is what it means to be alive.
John Barrowman
#96. I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for a year. That didn't really work for me. That isn't fair to make these life-forms and then disappear.
Dana Carvey
#97. I'm not sure how long we sit in Josh's truck, holding hands, surrounded by darkness and unspoken regrets. But it's long enough to know that there are no stories or secrets in the world worth holding onto more than his hand.
Katja Millay
#98. I don't have any regrets because I'm very optimistic, and live each day as though it's the last.
Michael Caine
#100. I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.
Ike Turner
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