Quotes about regret
regret interviews able
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. Nina Blackwood
regret pride vanity
There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do? Morrie Schwartz Mitch Albom
regret sacrifice thinking
Sacrfice," the captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.
regret book should-have
It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. I always wished I had done more with my work; I wished I had written more books. I used to beat myself up over it. Now I see that never did any good. Make peace. You need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you.
regret should-have forgiving
We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.
regret thinking wish
There are not many regrets that I have. There are a few things that I wish I'd changed in my life, but they are not so dramatic that I'd go out of my way to change them. But I go back and think about my life so far periodically in my head. Mike Tyson
regret years bird
Never look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last. Miguel de Cervantes
regret who-i-am riding
I'm very versatile and there's nothing I really regret in my life. I'm excited with who I am and I'm just going to keep riding the wave. Rick Ross
regret thinking why-not
I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret. Edward Albee
regret vices honest
We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this. Holbrook Jackson
regret past destiny
There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. There's only us. There's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road. No other way. No day but today. I can't control my destiny. I trust my soul, my only goal is just to be. There's only now, there's only here. Give into love, or live in fear. No other course, no other way. NO DAY but TODAY Jonathan Larson
regret hours clock
It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds. Jonathan Franzen
regret book successful
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. Jonathan Coe
regret heart hands
It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart. Jonathan Carroll
regret backwards believer
I have no regrets. If you regret things, you're sort of stepping backwards. I'm a believer in going forwards. Kate Winslet
regret decision life-is
Regret isn't good. Every decision one makes in life is made for a reason or another. Whenever something bad happens, I go, 'This is happening for a reason', or, 'This is going to teach me something'.
regret too-much kind
I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much. Julie Christie
regret film turned-down
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.
regret thinking technology
I think that we have to be very careful and get back into the loop, get back to nature. Get back to God and not let the technology send us somewhere that we're going to regret. Lenny Kravitz
regret business crazy
I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy. Lee Iacocca
regret people ends
People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret. Laurie Anderson
regret mean choices
What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? Laura Brown
regret wine sleep
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine. Thomas Aquinas
regret children doe
I don't regret it, you know. I would do it all again. Children are our hope for the future." THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, said Death. "What does it contain, then?" ME. Terry Pratchett
regret way spirit
We're all haunted in one way or another, are we not? If not by spirits, then by our own demons and regrets. Teresa Medeiros
regret thinking people
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. Tennessee Williams
regret past men
You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.
regret grief loss
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets. Simone de Beauvoir
regret calling retrospect
In retrospect, of course I regret calling them (Charlton fans) morons. Imbeciles would have been more appropriate. Simon Jordan
regret mistake brilliant
I've been taught not to have any regrets. If we were to add up all of the hours spent regretting mistakes and use that time to develop new ideas, who knows how many brilliant new businesses would be created. Richard Branson
regret simple advice
The best advice I ever received? Simple: Have no regrets.
regret giving advice
Having no regrets makes way for the best piece of advice I can give - don't be afraid of failure.
regret mistake embrace
I have always believed that there is no point in having regrets as you learn far more from mistakes than successes. Embrace a mistake and learn from it; don't regret them.