Top 100 To Regret Quotes
#1. We tend to regret our yesterdays, live in our todays, and forget about our tomorrows.
Lisa De Jong
#2. Don't wait a lifetime to satisfy your needs or you may live to regret it one day.
Frank Sonnenberg
#3. Do you have to regret spending money when you earn money? And when it is time to spend, you should be strong that you got the opportunity to pay off your debt. Income is one's responsibility and expense is the means to clear off the responsibility.
Dada Bhagwan
#4. A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.
Hermann Hesse
#5. Sometimes it is better to express yourself without worrying about the results, than to regret forever
Anamika Mishra
#6. There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.
Criss Jami
#7. If he is satisfied with only regretting me, when he might have obtained my affections and hand, I shall soon cease to regret him at all.
Jane Austen
#8. Isn't it better to regret things you've done, than regret things you've never even tried?
Inio Asano
#9. Better to regret unsaid words than repent of words I could never call back. Who
Robin Hobb
#10. If there's something you dream of achieving, it's better to give it a go than to regret not having tried.
Allan Walsh
#11. Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.
Jimmy Buffett
#12. Today, I will try to remember to regret the past. I will think of how many mistakes I have made throughout my life. I will say to myself, "If only I could go back in time and make different choices, so that my life could be the way it should have been." Then I will remind myself that I cannot.
John S. Hall
#13. To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life; fully experienced, it turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibly lived better than our past.
David Whyte
#14. To regret anything is to regret myself.For if I plucked out these painful pieces, I'd be someone else, living another life.
Ian Ballard
#15. If your decision-making is improved on the ground, certainly you'll be less likely to make the kind of errors that will linger with you the rest of your life and lead to regret, remorse, and a whole cascade of psychological dysfunction.
Amishi Jha
#16. Most saints live to regret their career choice.
Bob Stokes
#17. They seemed happy and contented, though," remarked the Wizard, "and those who are contented have nothing to regret and nothing more to wish for.
L. Frank Baum
#19. Why should the Increate protect us from ourselves? We might protect ourselves from ourselves. It may be that he will help us only when we come to regret what we have done.
Gene Wolfe
#20. However much I have been blamed for not showing more deferences to a great party, and for not acting more steadily on party principles, all I have to regret is that I showed so much.
Robert Peel
#21. I drink to remember I smoke to forget / Some things to be proud of, some stuff to regret.
Jake Bugg
#22. Today we tell girls to grow up to be or do whatever they want. But the cultural pressure to become a mother remains very strong; rare is she who doesn't at least occasionally succumb to the nagging fear that if she remains childless, she'll live to regret it.
Kate Bolick
#23. Is it only in the army in the Philippines that Americans sometimes commit deeds that cause all other Americans to regret?
[Theodore Roosevelt 1901 relating reports of water torture in the Philippines to lynching in the south]
Theodore Roosevelt
#24. In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.
John C. Calhoun
#25. Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.
Anna Quindlen
#26. Letting someone control your life for you and decide what you will be is a sure way of creating things to regret on the day of reckoning.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#27. I eat cupcakes and I don't work out! But if you ask me in 10 years, I'm going to regret answering that way now. I don't even drink water, I'm terrible! I'm 24 now, so I guess I've been very, very lucky that it doesn't show that I like to eat. I should probably start working out I guess ...
Blake Lively
#29. The ocean tries to flood a boat, fire wants to eat the wood, the mind wills to regret, and silence shapes a landscape more deftly than sound - all of that was true.
Christopher Bollen
#30. Anger travels faster, conscience is slower! Angers goes ahead to destroy long before conscience lately arrives to regret! Don't try to keep anger just for a while ... It destroys before negotiations!
Israelmore Ayivor
#31. What heart has not acknowledged the influence of this hour, the sweet and soothing hour of twilight, the hour of love, the hour of adoration, the hour of rest, when we think of those we love only to regret that we have not loved them more dearly, when we remember our enemies only to forgive them.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#32. I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.
Jimi Hendrix
#33. A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you're going to regret it.
Carroll Bryant
#34. In life, you would regret definitely, either you become good person or the bad one, but being good is better to regret for
-Samar Sudha
Samar Sudha
#35. I want to mate with you more than my next breath, but I need you to be sure." His eyes were human again as he continued. "Dragon matings are for life. I... don't ever want you to regret mating with me. Even if every second that you are not mine is torture.
Katie Reus
#36. It's better to regret what you have done than what you haven't.
Paul Arden
#37. It does no good to regret the past... yet regret remains just the same.
Sang-Sun Park
#38. I was born under a lucky star, and I have nothing whatsoever to regret. I wouldn't change a thing about my life.
Richard Branson
#39. When shall I cease to regret you! - when learn to feel a home elsewhere!
Jane Austen
#40. Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.
William Benton Clulow
#41. The life of an Essentialist is a life lived without regret. If you have correctly identified what really matters, if you invest your time and energy in it, then it is difficult to regret the choices you make. You become proud of the life you have chosen to live.
Greg McKeown
#42. But critics of the war have no reason to regret their views.
Stephen Cohen
#43. People said to me, "You know, when you record a special, you're going to regret it. The one thing you'll regret because you're a comic is you'll think of better tags."
Jen Kirkman
#44. You will have to make decisions far worse. You are going to have to learn to think before you act, but never to regret your decisions, right or wrong. Otherwise, you will slowly begin to not make decisions at all.
Raymond E. Feist
#45. Never leave yourself open to regret Grace. We can only make a decision when we know the choices we are faced with. If we shy away, turn our backs and hide, we will simply never know. And that is when you end up old and wondering and regretting. Live a life of hope. Don't live a life of regret.
Hazel Gaynor
#46. Live a lie, and you will live to regret it; that's what livin' is to me.
Jimmy Buffett
#47. If you have confidence in your own words, aspirations, thoughts, and actions and do your very best, you will have no need to regret the outcome of what you do. Fear and trembling are lot of the person who, while stinting effort, hopes that everything will come out precisely as he wants.
Mas Oyama
#48. I shall have less cause to regret the carrying my intended purpose into effect, foreseeing that you may immediately fill with advantage, the vacancy which will presently happen.
Henry Laurens
#49. But he's grinning at her. She grins back. "You've made quite the new best friend," I say. His expression turns to regret. "Children do have questionable taste." I laugh. It's the first time I can remember laughing this week.
Stephanie Perkins
#50. It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.
Frank Zappa
#51. What is there to regret? I'm a committed Nazi, and if I had to be born a thousand times over, I would be a thousand times what I have been.
Klaus Barbie
#52. Don't live to regret not doing something you've always wanted to do. Just do it!
Julie Whitley
#53. He couldn't be more than twenty-five, but he obviously lived enough to have things to regret. He looked like he'd taken a long fall a short time ago. Pieces of the man he'd been were jumbled up with the new guy, the lost soul.
Jonathan Lethem
#54. There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind
Eleanor Roosevelt
#55. I don't know how to regret it. Because that would mean to regret that I ever met her and I can't make myself do that.
Katja Millay
#56. I know we shouldn't be putting ourselves into a situation we're only going to regret once it's over.
Colleen Hoover
#57. In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
Karl Rove
#58. I try not to regret too much. I find that feeling guilty takes up so much of my time already.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
#59. don't live to regret the things you never said
Nick Pollack
#60. You cannot just waste time. Otherwise you'll die to regret it.
Harriet Doerr
#61. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices.
Mitch Albom
#62. I am more than willing to be judged by the people you claim to represent. I will let them decide what price I should pay. But please do not sit there with that smug look on your face and expect me to regret the decisions I have made. Because, sir, the truth is I don't.
Jack Bauer
#63. In order to be released from that agony, it doesn't matter what it takes even if it means using your friend's life, right? And then after you've gobbled him down you'd be left alone to regret it while covered in blood and guts. That's the hunger of a 'Ghoul'.
Sui Ishida
#64. 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
#65. Better to regret actions you have taken than to regret not having had the courage to take them in the first place.
Holly Chamberlin
#66. To dream the future is much more better than to regret the past.
But the best of all, to live in the present life with all of your power.
Toba Beta
#67. Is it normal to regret not making a sex tape back when you were younger and your boobs still pointed vaguely at the ceiling when you were lying on your back? Because I feel like no one ever talks about that.
Jenny Lawson
#69. Her eyes showed that though she may have decided to regret him, as long as he was in her presence she could not.
Mark Helprin
#70. Don't choose to walk the well-worn path to regret. Be amongst the few who dare to follow their dreams!
Steve Maraboli
#71. I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice ...
China Mieville
#72. Whether you made your choices with your eyes open or closed, they're made. It's not time to regret them; it's time to live with the consequences.
Sarah Beth Durst
#73. You will live to regret this day forever, ThunderClan, and that is a promise. She
Erin Hunter
#74. Everything we do we choose. So what is there to regret? You are the person you chose to be.
Paul Arden
#75. I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during 'Captain Blood.' I thought he was absolutely smashing for three solid years, but he never guessed. Then he had one on me but nothing came of it. I'm not going to regret that; it could have ruined my life.
Olivia De Havilland
#77. Every drop of sweat and every breath we take in life, if not taken for the sake of Allah, will lead to regret and sorrow on the Day of Judgment
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#78. You've made mistakes, and you have every right to regret them. But don't let them own you, Evie. Don't let them be more important than they are.
Lynn Raye Harris
#79. ...At that moment, our fates entwined, Roses. I know not why, but I know it to be true - I am bound to you forevermore. There is nothing to regret.
Juliette Miller
#80. If you only live to regret your past, you'll never live to love your future.
Edward Grey
#81. The only thing you live to regret are the risks you didn't take
Zachary Scott
#82. When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.
Edward Abbey
#84. May you get exactly what you want and live long enough to regret it.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#85. I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?
Peter Tosh
#86. The days of my vanity are over and heaven knows they weren't happy enough to regret
Emma Donoghue
#88. 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
#89. I gave my word," Crispen said stubbornly.
"You said a McCabe never breaks his word."
Ewan shook his head wearily. "I'm beginning
to regret telling you of things a McCabe
doesn't do. Come, let's sit in the hall so you
can tell me of these adventures of yours.
Maya Banks
#90. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.
Mitch Albom
#91. The left side of my brain is telling me I want to sleep with every woman in the world and the other side of my brain is telling me I met this great girl and if I let that go I'm going to regret it.
Scott Caan
#92. The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
Mick Jagger
#93. Sharon looked at Aaron and smiled. She'd made the right decision, hadn't she? Would she come to regret this decision too? She'd made so many mistakes in the past. Was this another one? No, self-doubt isn't an option. Everything is going to work out here. It has to.
Tamara Hoffa
#94. The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
W. Somerset Maugham
#95. Maybe I might be repeating the same mistake again ... But don't you think it is far better to regret what I have done than what I have not done yet ... ?
Hiroko Sakai
#96. The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.
Tony Parsons
#97. Am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes.
Jeff Bezos
#98. Don't do anything you'll live to regret later.
Sarah Price
#100. A life totally committed to God has nothing to fear, nothing to lose, nothing to regret.
Pandita Ramabai