I Regret Quotes

Man, don't ever be sorry you don't want to kill someone.

Once a positive goal is chosen, you should decide to pursue it all the way to the end. Even if it is not realized, at least there will be no regret.

I don't know how to incorporate regret. But I'll say, like, "It affected me that way," "I learned this," "Next time maybe I'll do it differently".

My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.

Don't regret your mistakes. You'll always make mistakes. The better you are, the less mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to thoroughly analyze your mistakes.

It's easier to live with disappointment than regret.

It was a counter-attack and I had to take him down. I don't regret it and I would do it again if I had to.

Imagine ... Imagine no religion.

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

I don't have a lot of regrets in my life.

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.

Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.

As a member of the New York Senate from 1966 to 1989, I voted 12 times to establish the death penalty in New York... I regret my votes in favor of the death penalty.

It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

I had this vivid image of myself at the age of 60 looking back on my life and truly regretting the fact that I hadn't tried to be an actor

You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger.

I've never regretted a swim

I have one regret: I wish I was a better father.

Nothing is more frustrating to me than putting a song on an album and regret putting it on there. I'm excited that there are no songs on 'Tailgates & Tanlines' that I'm iffy about.

When I have a child, it will be probably become my whole life, so I don't want to have any regrets that I should have done more.

There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright]

Regret has a purpose. It's like the oil light on the dashboard of your life, telling you something needs to be fixed. So fix it. And feel better.

foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty.

I don't have one regret.

We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.

My reaction to your news is delighted astonishment that Lanark has been judged more popular than a book by Ian Rankin, and only regret that this wonderful honour had no money attached to it!

A regret I have was never being able to interview George Harrison. I just loved him but I never had a chance to interview him.

I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.

It's the things one might have said that fester.

From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.

I always say that things are meant to be and everything happens for a reason, so I don't have any regrets.

Chess is one long regret.

Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake.

A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

Am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes.

Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?

A Warrior of the Light has no regrets, because regrets can kill.

Regrets, I've had a few but then again too few to mention. And more, much more than this, I did it my way.

Believe me - I've done very good stuff and very crazy stuff, and I don't regret the crazy stuff.

I am too busy with my cause to hate too absorbed in something bigger than myself. I have no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him.

Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments.

Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.

The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.

I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.

I cannot learn creation from other people; I've got to do it myself. Now, honestly, I regret not studying - I don't know about harmonies, or anything, so if I'm composing a song, it's really hard.

I prefer buying things and figuring out where to put them later than regretting not buying them.

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly, it reminds us that we know that we could do better.