I Regret Quotes

If you do not master the art of self discipline- you will succumb to the emotions and reality of regret.

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.

the more I live, the more I regret how little i know

I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late; And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped plate The words that I withdrew too late.

I don't really regret much. I know there are things that I've done that have been wrong, and wish I could do over again, but I feel it's all made me who I am today, and I'm very thankful for that.

I did some things I regret, and I know there are people who think they know me. I've heard the things they say, and some of them are hurtful.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about regrets because there's nothing I can do.

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.

I regret not having enough training, I trained for a year at The Royal Court, but I very quickly went off to do films and television.

When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, then you are on the way to success.

The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again.

Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.

The stuff I find attractive in women I always regret finding attractive. I always like a kind of madness in a woman... I like it when they hate me right from the beginning.

I don't think there's anything I can't do. I have no regrets.

Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.

I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

Obedience is less painful than regret.

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

My advice is flip a coin. If you regret the way it landed, then go with your gut.

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

Don't be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams.

I'm far from perfect. There's a lot of times you'll say something that you regret or do something that you regret and wish you wouldn't have said it or done it.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.

Don't regret the past or fear the future. Both bring misery through self-doubt.

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

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.

Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret.

No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.

I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret

We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

Isn't it better to regret things you've done, than regret things you've never even tried?

Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.

Regret is just perfectionism plus time.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.

Erm, I don't really have any regrets.

My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.