Regret Quotes

• People do dollar cost averaging because they have regret of making one big mistake. But the fact of the matter is that, mathematically, the market rises more of the time than it falls. It falls, but it rises more of the time than it falls.

  

  Kenneth Fisher
  • People
  • Time
  • Mistake

• I don't regret anything about my younger career, mainly because we were children and didn't have too much power, but also because it gave us the privilege to be where we are now.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Children
  • Power
  • Career

• We would go back and maybe not say that thing to our dad that we said, or maybe be a little nicer to someone who we cared about and had a relationship with when we were young. You know, they're subtle things, but we carry those with us forever. And I think that regret and time travel are intrinsically linked to me.

  

  Colin Trevorrow
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Dad

• I can't figure out how they decide on those things. So I don't have any regrets about anything that I did that didn't get a lot of people to see it.

  

  William Petersen
  • People
  • Regret
  • Figures

• You can get stuck in the trap of reading your YouTube comments all the time. Sometimes I regret it. Not everyone is going to love you. And for some reason, stand-up has this thing where everyone thinks they can do it. So everyone thinks they're an expert.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani
  • Up
  • Time
  • Reading

• I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it,to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Isolation

• Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this.

  

  Shania Twain
  • Life
  • Important
  • Smile

• I have no regrets - in fact, I am pleased to have expelled the US ambassador, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and to have closed the US military base in Bolivia. Now, without a US ambassador, there is less conspiracy, and more political stability and social stability. Without the International Monetary Fund, we are better off economically.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Political
  • Military
  • Drug

• I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • I Think
  • Figure
  • Shameful

• But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.

  

  Jeffrey Archer
  • Up
  • Regret

• Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down.

  

  Scott Vincent James Baio
  • Regret
  • Role
  • Asked

• Some of what is being said about me is untrue or mischaracterized, but there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed. I regret that my shame is now shared by the people I cherish dearly.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • People
  • Truth
  • Regret

• As simplistic as this may sound, commitment is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Dreams
  • Commitment
  • Regret

• That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Law
  • Regret
  • Careers

• I had a wife that did not want me to have a singular regret about chasing my dream, which helped me tremendously. I did not want to have a singular regret. I always held out hope that it was going to turn for the better. That's always what motivated me was hope.

  

  R.A. Dickey
  • Hope
  • Dream
  • Wife

• You must not procrastinate. Rather, you should make preparations so that even if you did die tonight, you would have no regrets. If you develop an appreciation for the uncertainty and imminence of death, your sense of the importance of using your time wisely will get stronger and stronger.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Death
  • Die

• As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Today
  • Beautiful
  • Winner

• If you see something that speaks to you and you can swing it, don't question. I don't regret anything that I've ever bought, only the things that slipped away.

  

  Bryan Batt
  • Question
  • Regret

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

  

  Charles Busch
  • Show
  • Resonance
  • Follies

• Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Live
  • Fun
  • Free

• Do I realy regret that night? That one moment of joy beyond compare – some people never experience it in a lifetime. But the downside to that taste of pure happiness is that,like a drug, a glimmer of paradise, it leaves you craving more.

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
  • People
  • Experience
  • Night

• Any fighter knows that regret that doesn't inform your future is wasted emotion. If you lose and dwell on the missed opportunity rather than the chances to come, you're finished.

  

  Craig Lancaster
  • Opportunity
  • Emotion
  • Fighter

• My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Regret

• Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Consciousness
  • Conservative

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