Quotes About What You Should Have Done

#1. For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.

Richard J. Needham

#2. There are times that all you need is someone who will listen to you without judging you - not telling you what you should have done or should do, but simply, listening to you

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#3. There comes a time in life that all you need is just someone to listen to you without judging or telling you what you should have done and should do, but simply just listening to you.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#4. Whatever you do, don't wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life.

George Clooney

#5. You get to know what you should have done better regretfully when you watch others take the stage enthusiastically to do what you should have done better

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#6. He used to say that sinning was not about the bad things you'd done and regretted but about the failure to do what you should have done. Especially for others.' She

Marguerite Poland

#7. Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.

Snoop Dogg

#8. If you're constantly ruminating about what you just did- or what you should have done- or what you would have done if you only had the chance, you will miss your life. Ok, you will fail to connect with it. You will fail to connect with other people.

Sam Harris

#9. Sometimes, until you do what you shouldn't have done, you least remember what you should have done

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#10. Rather than concentrating on what you should have done, concentrate on what you can do now.

Rachel Van Dyken

#11. I suppose in the end it's almost too easy to look back and say what you should have done, how you might have changed things. What's harder - what's much, much harder - is to accept what you actually did do.

Peter Hook

#12. You did what you should have done. Accept that sometimes the consequences are harsh and unforeseen. Accept that you cannot always allow for every result. There is nothing wrong in this.

Terry Brooks

#13. Concentrate on what you will do, not what you should have done.

Jim Butcher

#14. When failure imprisons you for not doing what you should have done, you have no option than to bail yourself on the promise of trying again! Try again!

Israelmore Ayivor

#15. The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done ... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.

Lil' Wayne

#16. Each empty seat in the auditorium, is the probability of what you should have done and not done.

Rehan Waris

#17. But then what should I have done with you, Nina, how should I have disposed of the store of sadness that had gradually accumulated as a result of our seemingly carefree, but really hopeless meetings?

Vladimir Nabokov

#18. Release blame. It does not help you to go over and over what you think you should have done or said. Stop blaming other people too. You don't need to make yourself or other people "wrong" in order to deal with your life in the moment.

Sheri Kaye Hoff

#19. None OF Days Are Ever Promised ... So Don't Waste Another, Being Angry And Upset Over What Was Done To You, You Don't Have Or Should Have Been.

Timothy Pina

#20. Learn to let others do their share of the work. Things may be done less well, but you will have more peace of soul and health of body. And what temporal interest should we not sacrifice in order to gain these blessings?

Rose Philippine Duchesne

#21. In raising children, life brings forth those things where you do what you should never have done and what I taught you never to do. And when my kids have done those things, I just kind of look at them and say, 'Now you know life.'

George Foreman

#22. When you get a hankering to talk or complain about what you gave up for Lent, replace that hankering by speaking the word of God. For all the times you would have done the activity that you gave up for Lent, replace it by reading the word of God. Christians should always be drawing closer to God.

Monica Johnson

#23. That you should write down valuable ideas that occur to you as soon as possible goes without saying: we sometimes forget even what we have done, so how much more what we have thought.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#24. And I'm hoping that fair-minded people will stand up and say that what's been done to me is wrong, and that-that people's personal lives have no impact on their ability to be a journalist, you know. Why should my past prevent me from having a future?

Jeff Gannon

#25. We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.

Mitch Albom

#26. Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio
Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know

Neil Young

#27. What is a throne? - a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state - I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public - people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#28. You should be a pleasing personality. Instead of thinking about how you should be pleased, I don't like this, I don't do like that, instead of, what have I done to please others?

Nirmala Srivastava

#29. What I should have done, if I was going to be a GM, was gone on the road, gotten into the personnel a lot better. To do that job, you've gotta do it all year. I just did it at draft time.

Matt Millen

#30. Well, what should I have done? Counted every tree?" "Of course, they must be counted. You didn't count them, but Ryabinin did. Ryabinin's children will have means of livelihood and education, while yours maybe will not!

Leo Tolstoy

#31. It's not worth it to weigh what you could have done or should have done when there's no way of changing it.

Alexandra Bracken

#32. Sometimes I think this job is going to kill me," Abby said. "Seeing what people have done, what people continue to do, to my Foxes. I wish I could protect you, but I'm always too late. All I can do is patch you up afterward and hope for the best. I'm sorry, Neil. We should have been there for you.

Nora Sakavic

#33. It's funny, you can get over the win pretty quick and get ready for the next opponent. When you lose, it just eats at you ... What could we have done? What should I have done? All those things. Just part of playing professional sports and sports in general.

Tony Romo

#34. Animation should be an art ... what you fellows have done with it, making it into a trade ... not an art, but a trade ... bad luck.

Winsor McCay

#35. I know I'm tired of thinking about what I should have done yesterday. I know I'm just tired. If I knew what to do with my life, how to fix it up, I would have done it a long time ago. You can't dig that? You think I want to live like I'm somebody's throwaway?

Walter Dean Myers

#36. Gallimard: You have to do what I say! I'm conjuring you up in my mind!
Song: Rene, I've never done what you've said. Why should it be any different in your mind?

David Henry Hwang

#37. The day it comes out, there's already things that you start to go, 'Oh, I should have done that a little differently.' You start to make a list in your head. I actually write things down
what I'm going to do next time.

Howie Day

#38. And they just let you enter after their effort?"
"What should they have done, Mr MacRieve?"
"I know exactly what I would have done."
"I know exactly how I would have retaliated.

Kresley Cole

#39. You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement Day when He asks you why you didn't read your bible? Hmm?
I will tell Him that His press agents could have done with a writing lesson or two, I said. To myself.

Jennifer Donnelly

#40. It's always easier to wonder, to ask yourself what if, to think you could have done it differently, should have done it differently.

Kristen Kehoe

#41. I declare you're enough to make one regret ever having had a family at all. I have a great mind to say I wish I hadn't. Then what would you have done, I should like to know?' Mr.

Charles Dickens

#42. As you grow older, Michael, you'll learn an important lesson - that most people spend their entire lives wishing for a second chance to do what they should have done right the first time.

Richard Paul Evans

#43. Designing is so easy - it's the business that is hard. That's why you really have to respect Ralph Lauren - look at what he's done. Anybody who can sustain themselves should be applauded.

Thom Browne

#44. You should have certainty in what you do. Anyone who has done anything in this world was hated. If you're not hated, you've done nothing.

Yehuda Berg

#45. Shame on you! Think what this child has done! You might not have more courage, but you should be ashamed to show less.

Philip Pullman

#46. The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done.

Helen Keller

#47. Don't beat yourself up over what you could have or should have done. The past is gone. Move on to the future.

Richelle Mead

#48. We fixate on sins of commission: Don't do this, don't do that - and you're OK. But that is holiness by subtraction. And it's more hypocrisy than holiness! It's the sins of omission - what you would have, could have, and should have done - that break the heart of your heavenly Father.

Mark Batterson