Top 61 Rather Regret Quotes
#1. I would rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. ~Lucille Ball
K. Langston
#2. I would rather regret what I have done than what I have not.
Fannie Hurst
#3. I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.
James Hetfield
#5. At the time there were moments of extreme discomfort; but the adventure, the danger, the exhilaration of doubt and peril are in retrospect something I rather regret having lost.
Elizabeth Peters
#6. I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
Lucille Ball
#7. I would rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not
Lucille Ball
#8. There's a quote of hers [Lucille Ball] that I've always loved: 'I guess I would rather regret the things I've done than to regret the things I've never done.
Carol Burnett
#9. TV actress Lucille Ball once remarked, 'I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I've not done.' This
Ashwin Sanghi
#10. I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
Lucille Ball
#11. I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven't.
Lucille Ball
#12. I would rather regret the things that I have done than those I have not.
Garikai Nhongo
#13. We must come to grief and regret anyway - and I for one would rather regret the reality than its phantasm, knowledge than hope, the deed than the hesitation, true life and not mere sickly potentialities.
A.S. Byatt
#14. I think what I regret is that I would rather do something like that when I was a more established actress and I really had proven myself first. Now, people are still unsure whether I can act or not. I just don't want to be one of those girls who are playing off the show's popularity.
Megan Fox
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather than closed to events, integral in the moment rather than distended across time by regret or anxiety.
Robert Grudin
#18. I am not sorry, she realized. She had chosen to live freely as a killer rather than die quietly as a slave, and she could not regret that.
Leigh Bardugo
#19. Every event has a purpose and every setback a lesson. Failure is essential to personal expansion. It brings inner growth and a whole host of psychic rewards. Never regret your past. Rather embrace it as the teacher it is.
Robin S. Sharma
#20. So long as we see the stones and joints, and are not deceived as to the points of support in any piece of architecture, we may rather praise than regret the dexterous artifices which compel us to feel as if there were fibre in its shafts and life in its branches.
John Ruskin
#21. What I do know is that there are two kinds of pain in this life: risk and regret. I'd rather live with the first than the second.
Holley Gerth
#22. People's most common regret was living the life others expected of them, rather than having the courage to live a life true to themselves, and realising some dreams had gone unfulfilled as a result.
Bianca Nogrady
#23. Never regret your past. Rather,
embrace it as the teacher that it is.
Robin S. Sharma
#24. The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.
Paul Allen
#25. I would much rather feel the physical soreness that comes with exercise than to feel the psychological soreness that comes with regret.
Steve Maraboli
#26. Any fighter knows that regret that doesn't inform your future is wasted emotion. If you lose and dwell on the missed opportunity rather than the chances to come, you're finished.
Craig Lancaster
#27. Life is short and precious and we never know what is around the corner. So you live for now, seize every moment that comes your way and if you're going to look back on your life with regret, it's easier to regret the things that you did do, rather than the things you didn't
Holly Martin
#28. The light in the darkness, as Stephen explained it, did not chase away the shadows of fear and regret: It merely illuminated the fears worth fighting. It lit the paths dictated by fate and choice, rather than casting a celestial glow on the way to a better and more perfect world. Although
Christopher Rice
#29. She doesn't understand what she's asking, Jean-Claude said.
No, but she asks, and if we do not do it, we will always wonder. I would rather thy and fail than regret having never tried at all.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#30. Don't live in a world of 'I never should have'. Regret is a terrible burden to carry through life. It stoops your shoulders and keeps you looking down at the ground rather than up at the stars.
Mary Alice Kruesi
#31. For me, the most powerful way to write about something is through the absence of it. Rather than writing about what it was to become a new mother, I wrote, for example, a father facing death and addressing his estranged son about the regrets of his relationship.
Nicole Krauss
#32. Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.
Antonio Tabucchi
#33. But I'd rather look back and regret something I did when I was young and crazy, than look back and regret something I never had the courage to do, and realize it's too late.
Cherrie Lynn
#34. You must always remember that your future holds promise and good fortune. Count your blessings, and never regret what was not. Rather, focus on the path God has chosen for you.
Mirella Sichirollo Patzer
#35. Why regret that I lived miserably Yesterday. Rather, Why not commit and resolve to live happily today.
R.v.m.
#36. Rather the pain of discipline than the pain of regret.
Bob Andrews
#37. I would rather live with the consequences of my failures than live in regret without ever trying.
Bryan Nyaude
#38. Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic vision of how things might be if there were men around; I saw myself in a country house with six children and a garden. That has never been achieved - and I still regret it.
Claire Tomalin
#39. 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
#40. I want to take retirement rather than feel as if it's taking me unawares. Maybe even seize it joyously. But at least behold it without looking back so longingly that I turn into a pillar of regret.
Klaus H. Carl
#41. The world he had left was not ready for his return, or rather, he was not ready to return to the world he had left.
Matthew J. Hefti
#42. 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
#43. His will to live was waning, and it made him almost transparent, as though rather than dying, he might just disappear one day, leaving behind only a vague scent of regret.
Ian Morgan Cron
#44. I'd rather trust and regret than doubt and regret. - Kirito
Rei Kawahara
#45. I don't regret the numerous pictures of Brigitte Bardot, but I'd rather have a good photograph of my father.
Raymond Depardon
#46. Everything was cold, and she chewed from habit rather than enjoyment, but she knew she would regret it later if she went to bed hungry as well as angry.
Renee Ahdieh
#47. We will never regret the kind words spoken or the affection shown. Rather, our regrets will come if such things are omitted from our relationships with those who mean the most to us.
Thomas S. Monson
#48. In a serious sense, wanting to change something from the past doesn't work for me - change something you don't enjoy now rather than regretting it later.
Rory McIlroy
#49. It would have been a difficult matter for Mr. Pontellier to define to his own satisfaction or any one else's wherein his wife failed in her duty toward their children. It was something which he felt rather than perceived, and he never voiced the feeling without subsequent regret and ample atonement.
Kate Chopin
#50. It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live
Maximilien Robespierre
#51. If you've no world of your own, it's rather pleasant to regret the passing of someone else's.
John Osborne
#52. I'd rather look forward and dream, than look backward and regret.
James Van Praagh
#53. You'll never let me go, will you? Giving me the space and freedom I want isn't your idea of love, is it? You'd rather cut me deep on earth to spare me pain in hell, whereas I think hell is right here.
Matthew J. Hefti
#54. When to give grace? I'd rather stand before God knowing I loved others too much rather than regretting that I judged too harshly.
Lysa TerKeurst
#55. 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
#56. The happiest people are those with the fewest regrets. It is not because they have succeeded in everything they've tried; rather, they're happier because they at least put forth the effort - win or lose -and tried to make their thoughts and dreams a reality.
Ian K. Smith
#57. Never look back to the past, never regret, even if there is emptiness ahead.' But I couldn't help it. Sometimes I would rather look back if it meant that I could feel something in my heart, even something sad. Sadness was better than emptiness.
Xiaolu Guo
#58. It's my life and I'm not afraid to LIVE it! I would rather experience the ups and downs of a life I have chosen, than to suffer the regret of a life I have settled for.
Steve Maraboli
#59. Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse, rather than the other; and why does he further feel that he ought to regret his conduct? Man in this respect differs profoundly from the lower animals.
Charles Darwin
#60. I'd rather have weeks, days, hours with you happy and content than a lifetime filled with regret.
Faith Sullivan
#61. Walking with our heads down trying to pull the weight of our mistakes doesn't make them go away. Choice it the only thing that conquers regret. Choosing to learn from our past and waking up with hope on the pillowcase beside us rather than remorse.
Robin Bielman
