I Regret Quotes

In real life, people end up doing things because it's convenient and it works for them. You don't get up every day regretting what you're doing.

Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say that they would want it back.

There is no truer saying than "Revenge is a dish best eaten cold." It is so much sweeter for the waiting, and my only regret is that I cannot broadcast my triumph to the world.

Regret is a tricky word. Here's a big secret: nobody knows what wasn't.

But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed.

I have no regrets. I have spent my life, so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to do.

There cannot be many people who can go through life without regretting sooner or later a lack of knowledge about horses.

The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance.

If ever you get to be my age," said the old woman, "you will know all there is to know about regrets, and you will know that one more, here or there, will make no difference in the long run.

As you walk, you touch the ground mindfully, and every step can bring you solidity and joy and freedom. Freedom from your regret concerning the past, and freedom from your fear about the future.

Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination.

When a person sets a thing in motion, there's a feeling of unease, almost regret, until you learn the truth.

For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true.

My mom actually took me to get my first tattoo when I was 15. She highly regrets that choice now, as I have a lot more.

Well my own impression of my musical pieces is that no matter how long I've been at it, there's not much improvement. So that's kind of regrettable.

I don't know how you can look back with regret if you're at a moment when everything seems fine.

I can manage the regret, if not my own finances.

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

Although I have been through all that I have, I do not regret the many hardships I met, because it was they who brought me to the place I wished to reach.

When you close that door to nowhere throw away the key, we have a tendency to look back and regret

I did it my way, and I have no regrets when I look back on my career that it was just a big focus for me.

My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.

You'll regret the day you ever messed with Philadelphia Collins and sons

Comfort his family with a telegram, we regret to inform you we lost a man, but we gave him the highest medal of the land.

O that one unguarded moment! / Were it mine to live again, / All the strength of its temptation / Would appeal to me in vain.

I don't have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, 'You're going to be fine. It ain't that serious!'

The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end.

My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.

Let's just say you may regret that second piece of cake. Oh my God. Regret cake? Whatever was about to happen must be truly evil.

I am a total coffee snob and bore. If anyone makes the mistake of offering me 'a coffee' they tend to regret it - I'm worse than Mariah Carey, and the hot milk rider is completely non-negotiable.

Regret couldn't fix what he's broken. Apologies couldn't bring back what he's lost. What we'd lost.

Regret or remorse of the wrong we have done should be in a positive spirit of changing, turning towards God with humility.

A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

I have no regrets about my career or retiring. Not once have I thought 'Gosh, I wish I was back on the court.

I have been stupid and regret making a silly mistake experimenting with drugs.

My mother always taught me never to look back in regret but to move on to the next thing.

Having no regrets makes way for the best piece of advice I can give - don't be afraid of failure.

I was born under a lucky star, and I have nothing whatsoever to regret. I wouldn't change a thing about my life.

What's my greatest fear? I don't know; I have lots of fears. Regret, I don't want to have any regrets; that makes me scared.

It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.

I don't believe in regret.

I had no regrets when I did it, I have even less regret now because I can't imagine staying on the West Wing show and then, six weeks later, Aaron Sorkin leaving.

There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.

We're either nothing or a God's regret.

My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.

I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.

At one point, we were all fearful. But as you get older, it's the things you don't do that you regret, more so than the things you do. When fear knocks, answer.

Ive no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions.

The time is going to come when [people] are going to really regret this, and they're gonna want to be within [Donald] Trump's orb at some point, 'cause this country's gonna take off.

When we are certain that the way to accomplish our own wishes is to help others, we have no regrets.