Regret Quotes

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn't change the name of our country.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.

I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it.

I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.

It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.

I really didn't feed off the whole Olympic experience at all, and I regret that from an athletic perspective, and also from a personal experience. I feel like I missed out, so I'm not going to do that this time.

Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.

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.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed.

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

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.

Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret.

I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

I was trying to protect my wife, I was trying to protect myself from shame, and I really regret it.

I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.

To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.