Regret Quotes

My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

It's better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.

My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, that I wasn't more careful about making sure that she was O.K. with it. I just sort of didn't ask. So that's how that goes.

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period.

I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.

There's not a second I regret having a child on my own.

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.

People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.

My biggest regret is that I didn't teach my two children how to speak Spanish.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

You have to be young to be able to do things like that. Now I'm more cautious. I'm proud that I was able to do what I did - psychologically it was a great wall to climb - but sometimes I regret it.

I don't regret setting bombs.

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.

One regret I have is that I did not learn more about what was happening very early, so that I could have tried to stop people from engaging in illegal activities.

I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.

He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him.

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.