Top 1200 Never Regret Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

My greatest regret would be that I took my success for granted, because it was given to me at such a young age.

I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.

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

I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree.

I don't regret any of my transgressions, because I believe I paid for them a million times over.

You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.

At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.

I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.

I very much regret that our administration has pushed the whole issue of Kosovo to the back burner.

I didn't have a school life like everyone else because I started working at a young age. That's what I regret.

As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought Id regret it if I didnt act.

There was a very cautious man Who never laughed or played He never risked, he never tried, He never sang or prayed. And when he on day passed away, His insurance was denied, For since he never really lived, They claimed he never really died. (Anonymous poem)

I just love that whole Brill Building era. I will always regret not being there. That's where I belong.

That's one thing I don't want to happen is a regret getting a tat because that bad boy not going away.

No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.

I apologize to the women I’ve hurt. I deeply regret what I did and know that it has forever impacted all of our lives.

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Regret is a bitter emotion, so painful that the urge to avoid it often drives decision-making strategies.

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.

My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets - Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.

As an athlete, you'll never feel bad about losing, but what you will feel bad about is underperforming. That's a real thing and it happens a lot when we don't live up to our potential. And that keeps you up at night and can give you years and years of regret. It could be a relationship, it could be a homework assignment, or it could be an athletic competition. If you don't go out and perform to the best of your ability, it will really bother you.

Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair?

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

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

Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.

Have I made mistakes in my many years of political activity? Of course! I am sorry and regret them.

It is my biggest regret that I let my marriage to Erica fail. It is what it is, and she is doing an incredible job with the kids, and we are in a great place.

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

I was keen to become a dancer and was studying for it. Somehow, it did not work out and I joined theatre. I do not regret it.

I, personally, have standards that I have set for myself. I'd like to achieve those and look back without regret.

I wear stuff I regret all the time. It's very rare that I look back at a picture and think it was all good.

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.

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

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

I do believe that my life, career has been fulfilling, I've had my share of disappointments too, but I have nothing to regret.

But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.

I'm ready to wait for the best role rather than do all the projects coming my way and regret about it later.

I think, from every actor I've ever spoken to, they say the biggest thing they regret from life is not finishing school.

He looked at her. "I will miss you, Montana. For the first time in my life, I'll regret leaving someone behind.

If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.

Nelson Mandela set his course a long time ago, and in word and deed, years of determination, sacrifice, and faith--he set a new standard in the likes of Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King, Jr. --changing the world and all of us for the better. I was one of those regular citizens watching when he made his first trip here after being released from prison. Amazing memories. I regret that I never met him in person. May he rest in peace

I often feel more disgust than pride about this kind of success. So there's no regret whatsoever.

September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.

The consequences of ignoring the Lord and His prophets are certain and often accompanied by great sorrow and regret.

I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.

My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets: Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.

It's so much worse to regret something you never did. It's often worth running through your fears to their logical conclusion to help disperse them. One footnote - if life has taught me anything it's to trust the shy people. Popularity means a lot of people like you a bit, you have broad appeal. But who wants broad appeal? Interesting people are always a bit niche. Remember what Steven Patrick Morrissey said: "It takes guts to be gentle and kind.".

A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.

The only possible regret I have is the feeling that I will die without having played enough tennis.

Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.

She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience.

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one directionally, without regret or reservation.

I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.

Who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret?

Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.