Regret Quotes
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I'm enough of an optimist and a patriot to believe that in U.S. you have a lot of opportunity and can do pretty much anything you want in some form. For me, the idea of failure is far preferable to the idea of regret.
Michael Ian Black
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I don't have any regrets because I'm very optimistic, and live each day as though it's the last.
Michael Caine
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You should be excited to meet new people and try new things—to assume the best about them, in the absence of evidence to the contrary. In the long run, optimism is the best prevention for regret.
Brian Christian
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Maximizers, according to a series of studies by Schwartz, are lower than satisficers in happiness, optimism, self-esteem, and life satisfaction, and higher in depression and regret!
Ed Diener
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I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.
Molly Ringwald
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I don't regret nuthin.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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There are people who live lives little different than the beasts,and I don't mean that badly. I mean that they accept whatever happens day to day without struggle or question or regret. To them things just are, like the earth and sky and seasons.
Celeste De Blasis
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Your peers when you're a teenager will always be the keepers of your embarrassment and regret. It was one of life's great injustices, that you can move on and be accomplished and happy, but the moment you see someone from high school you immediately become the person you were then, not the person you are now.
Sarah Addison Allen
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In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit.
Alfred de Musset
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Do it or don't do it - you will regret both.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today.
Bob Hastings
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Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?
William Ellery Channing
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The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.
Nido Qubein
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The effort of trying to turn grief into regret, to live entirely on past nourishment, even to keep the sharper parts of nostalgia credible (he found himself beginning to doubt and struggle with the intricacies of the smaller memories), and, most of all, the fearful absence of anything that could begin to take their place, had worn him down.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
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All that remains is regret for what might have been. It is like standing in the ashes of a fire you once approached to warm your body a little, but which burned you to the bone instead.
Elizabeth Chadwick
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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
Stephen Fry
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I don't know how you can look back with regret if you're at a moment when everything seems fine.
Norman Lear
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I stand by every movie that I did. I don't regret any decision I made.
Mila Kunis
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I try not to have regrets and to learn from every experience.
Tommy Hilfiger
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It's too late for remorse, but the old ones always regret for something
Conn Iggulden
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Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.
Honore de Balzac
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Her voice was like loneliness. It was regret. She sang about a past you couldn't get out of and didn't want.
Brenna Yovanoff
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If I come back and I lose, at least I know I did everything I should have done, I have no regrets, I'll be happy. I can die happy.
Georges St-Pierre
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Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.
Carrie Fisher