Top 100 Regret Time Quotes
#1. At the end of your life you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child or a parent.
Barbara Bush
#2. My point is,' Jamie continued, 'not everything's perfect, especially at the beginning. And it's all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it ... that's when you get into trouble.'
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Sarah Dessen
#3. I was up for Michael Corleone in 'The Godfather,' but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think Mr. Coppola made the right choice. The Julia Roberts role in 'Pretty Woman' held a bizarre allure for me. But, it's silly to look back with regret.
Eric Stoltz
#4. Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm ... I'm not going to waste my time crying. Because I am way too fabulous for that.
Jude Watson
#5. When it is mid week, pause and ponder! The very single days we disregard are what become the very years we wished to have used effectively and efficiently. If we disregard today, we shall remember our had I know tomorrow. Time changes therefore think of the changing times.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#6. To be honest, and I may regret saying this, the idea of playing the same character for a very long time is very daunting to me.
Lucy Punch
#7. People do dollar cost averaging because they have regret of making one big mistake. But the fact of the matter is that, mathematically, the market rises more of the time than it falls. It falls, but it rises more of the time than it falls.
Kenneth Fisher
#8. Anger seeped in, like an old friend who was a lousy house guest, but you forget every time he leaves how much you wish him gone, and welcome him heartily when he reappears. Anger was so much easier than hurt, or heartache, or regret, so anger it was. Welcome my old friend.
Julia Kent
#9. To be a good trader, you need to trade with your eyes open, recognize real trends and turns, and not waste time or energy on regrets and wishful thinking.
Alexander Elder
#10. He couldn't remember where he had come from, and ultimately he didn't know where he would go. But he could look back without regret on the time in between, his life, with a full-throated laugh and utter amazement.
Robert Seethaler
#11. Whenever life gets to be too much for me, I have a hard time keeping my eyes open. Sleeping is cheaper and safer than drinking. It keeps you from saying or doing things you'll regret later, and though you may have nightmares, you won't wake up with a hangover. I recommend it wholeheartedly.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
#12. Sometimes jn your life you make a decision and you find yourself questioning it. A lot. You don't regret it, exactly.you know that you probably made the best choice and that you're probably better off for it. But you do spend a lot of time wondering what the hell you were thinking
K.A. Tucker
#13. I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.
Italo Calvino
#14. I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.
Groucho Marx
#15. What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has been, in any moderate degree, healthy or peaceful)? That rich charm, which the least possession had for us, was in consequence of the poorness of our treasures.
John Ruskin
#16. If you don't pursue what you think will be most meaningful, you will regret it. Life is long. There is always time for Plan B. But don't begin with it.
Drew Gilpin Faust
#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. 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
#19. 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
#20. Live riotously lest not you regret the minutes, moments, hours and days of time gone by.
Maximillian Degenerez
#21. Monitor and control every passing day so as to live without regrets
Sunday Adelaja
#22. Oh God, Oh God! that it were possible
To undo things done; to call back yesterday!
That time could turn up her swift and sandy glass,
To untell days, and to redeem these hours.
Thomas Heywood
#23. It happens all too often - people regret that their language and culture are being lost but at the same time decide not to saddle their own children with the chore of preserving them.
Andrew Dalby
#24. The hurt, resentment, the revenge, the pride, and regret are thrown hard and fast like snowballs in the winter. Some major ones hit hard; some minor ones just roll off, while others stick for an elongated time ... as long as we stay in the cold frosty air of not letting go.
Wes Adamson
#25. 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
#26. Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.
Arthur Brisbane
#27. I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.
K'naan
#28. A guy said to a girl he liked; ' I am scared of loving again'
The girl responded ; ' the only thing that scares me is living a life of regret, in never chasing that things that once took my breath away
Nikki Rowe
#29. When decisively a new direction has come about in your life, you better take it or else you'll regret when it's too late and you can not change anything after that and if try you'll spend more than what you would've used at the first time.
Auliq Ice
#30. The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
Neil Armstrong
#31. There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it's really true: I should have stayed home.
David Rakoff
#32. 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
#33. I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past.
Carson McCullers
#34. It doesn't matter to me. I'm just worried. It's the first time I've see Teach like that. He said he had two regrets ... Once, 20 years ago. And once when you hurt your wrist. He said he didn't ever want to regret again. I wonder what that means.
Kim Su-mi
#35. A well known director wouldn't take the chance on casting me for an American role after he discovered that I was English. Some time later, he expressed his regret that he hadn't taken the chance with me.
Marsha Thomason
#36. Moments come and go; quick flickers in time. Yet those moments can have the profoundest impact on our lives. Either we seize them, and wield them to our needs, or we let them go. It's the moments we let go that, I believe, remain with us strongest - because regret is something that never leaves us.
B.N. Toler
#37. We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.
Thomas Jefferson
#38. I do not have time to sit down and regret anything although sometimes I wish I had been able to see more of my parents while they were alive and have done more for them.
Roger Moore
#39. The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.
Kris Kristofferson
#40. Some of the things that I regret most in my life happened when I was drinking. I'm just not good with alcohol. And I don't give a damn what time of the day it is, I just drink too much.
Ava Gardner
#41. 'He's the most charming man. He's the Oscar Wilde of our time. I only had one moment with him in that film and it's a great source of regret. I love spending time with him. He's always very open and effusive. His interest in you is genuine.'
Russell Crowe
#42. Guilt doesn't follow the rules of time. Most things fade with time, regret, eyesight, memories. But guilt feeds on time, and as it feeds, it grows, and when it runs out of time, it begins to gnaw on the guilty.
J.D. Mason
#43. I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly dismantled by the passage of time. I regret not spending more time looking at the people I love.
Shan Sa
#45. Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted.
Marilyn Monroe
#46. What I mean is, right from that first time, there was
something in Tommy's manner that was tinged with sadness, that seemed to
say: Yes, we're doing this now and I'm glad we're doing it now. But what a
pity we left it so late.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#47. Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.
Storm Constantine
#48. Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I've no regrets.
Roman Payne
#49. 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
#50. I don't have regrets I didn't spend more time with my family because I've lived my life to the full, and you can't look back in regret.
Lech Walesa
#51. She would never forget how his soul was lonely as the moon they'd met under, and how, for several brief moments, she'd been able to chase the loneliness away.
Katherine McIntyre
#52. 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
#53. ..the irreversibility of things is a kind of death at the heart of life and threatens constantly to steer us into time past- the home of
nostalgia, guilt, regret and remorse, the great spoilers of happiness.
Luc Ferry
#54. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to.
Trevor Noah
#55. All along, I was less concerned about walking a path of integrity and more caught up in a compass calibrated by greed. And with a compass such as this, how is it that I'm having a hard time understanding why I am where I am?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#56. Never go for someone that represents something that is more of a fantasy than reality in this crazy world of lonely people, unless it is for the shortest time possible, and unless you have clearly figured out an exit strategy.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#57. i dont love you... like i loved you... yesterday.
Gerard Way
#58. I'm not big on regret; I don't spend a lot of time on it.
Joss Whedon
#59. I regret things all the time. I've never regretted not saying something. I've only regretted saying something.
Chrissy Teigen
#60. When I have a difficult decision to make, I imagine myself as a 90-year-old guy looking back on his life. I imagine what I'll think about myself at that point in time, and it always makes it really easy to go for it. You're only going to regret that you wimped out.
Nick Woodman
#61. I did it, and it's all right. Even the worst experiences were right in their time, because otherwise, it wouldn't have come to this point. That was your road, and you had to walk it.
Michael "Bommi" Baumann
#62. Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#63. Regret is a painful thing. Few people understand that there are three important things that leave us and can never return. Words. Time. Opportunity. These are things we can never get back.
Kathryn Perez
#64. I don't regret my past, I just regret the time I've wasted on the wrong people.
Wiz Khalifa
#65. There's a time in your life when you have to stop looking back and start looking forward because otherwise you're going to walk down the road one day and bump into a lamppost. But it's not easy.
Anna Maxted
#66. I regret what I did but it was in my personal time and I therefore hope that it does not reflect on the show
Richard Bacon
#67. Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.
Jean De La Bruyere
#68. What was she like in the end?
The way most people are at the end. Scared and full of regret. The way you are all of the time.
Lisa Lutz
#69. Regret for things we have done can be tempered by time, it is regret for things we have not done that is inconsolable.
Sydney J. Harris
#70. But there is not much time to regret other people, their actions or inactions. Isn't drowning itself enough for one day? Here
Joanna Walsh
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. I knew it in my bones. That this time was it. I had finally made my choice, and so had he. He let me go. I was relieved, which I expected. What I didn't expect was to feel so much grief.
Jenny Han
#74. It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful husband ... but no sooner is he domesticated than he becomes polygamous, and makes nothing of owning ten or a dozen wives at a time.
Isabella Beeton
#75. No such thing as time travel, he'd rumbled patiently, once. Only live with what you've done, and try in the future to do what you're happy to live with.
Richard K. Morgan
#76. Ii would no longer waste time on regret. I would turn my face to the future and carve it into the shape I wanted. - Panchali
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#77. Deeply vulnerable and hurting within as you act tough outside. You do need people; you need them so much so that it scares you to death. You drive them away so they don't get too close; yet you regret it every time you do.
Rachel Reiland
#78. I regret everything because it has just finished, and already when I was twelve, I lamented the time that had gone by. Even in the best of spirits, it's always been as though I wrestle with the present in a vain effort to stop its becoming the past.
Andrew Solomon
#79. He meant it and he didn't. Both. At the same time.
'It doesn't matter if you meant it or not. This is the life you're living. It's not temporary and it's not pretend and there's no do-over...You don't get to regret us.
Nicola Yoon
#80. She was fabulously wrong when she said it the first time, and stunningly arrogant in her refusal to express any regret for lying to our fellow citizens.
Trey Gowdy
#82. In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.
Henry David Thoreau
#83. Abyss, n.
There are times when I doubt everything. When I regret everything you've taken from me, everything I've given you, and the waste of all the time I've spent on us.
David Levithan
#84. I will never regret being with you, Syd. Never. And I wish I could go back and relive those hours. I wish I could go back in time, and instead of hooking up with some chick, I'd man up and tell you how I really felt for you, how I've always felt for you.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#85. Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. Sydney J. Harris
J.L. Witterick
#86. My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.
Perry Como
#87. Sometimes, without effort, you live in the moment. You don't regret the past or worry about the future, and in that moment everything flashes before your eyes , a clear snapshot of what has to be done, and everything pauses.
Rebecca McNutt
#88. You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.
Marilynne Robinson
#89. I try not to spend too much time with regret, although I wish I'd had more hang time with my dad.
Woody Harrelson
#90. The entire time I'm burning in Hell, I'll regret each tear I made you weep. But if Hell were the price for twenty days with you, I'd condemn myself again and again.
- Cian MacKeltar
Karen Marie Moning
#91. ... Our lives are made in these small hours, these little wonders, these twists & turns of fate. Time falls away, but these small hours, these small hours still remain. All of my regret, will wash away somehow. But i can not forget, the way i feel right now ...
Rob Thomas
#92. You have to imagine your own death. When your time comes, what will you regret not doing? What will you wish you had more time to do, and what will have seemed trivial? Think of what you fear losing - those are the things that matter most.
Jeff Goins
#93. Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.
Federico Fellini
#94. I regret the time and resources needed to undertake this but ... it is right to lay this accusation to rest.
David Blunkett
#95. I had enough time being single to know I have no regrets about being married!
Jennifer Connelly
#96. I don't regret a single second that I spent with you." I smiled wryly at him. "No time spent with you is wasted.
S.C. Stephens
#97. The only way to live a life without regret is to make sure each unit of time that passes is being converted into product
Sunday Adelaja
#98. Things don't so much end as disappear. They don't so much begin as turn up. You think there will be a time to say goodbye, but people have often gone before you know about it. And I don't just mean the dying.
Rachel Joyce
#99. If we fail to give our time with those we love, one day we will live to regret it.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#100. You only get so much time to do something that you enjoy or love to do. If you can continue doing it, you might as well, because I don't want to live in regret. I don't want to be the person sitting behind a desk, wondering, 'Did I do it right, did I finish it off, did I really give it my all?'
Troy Dumais
