Welcome to our collection of regret quotes, where you’ll find a treasure trove of wisdom and insight on the subject of regret. Regret is a universal emotion that we all experience at some point in our lives. It’s that lingering feeling of wishing we had done things differently, made better choices, or seized opportunities that slipped through our fingers. Whether it’s about love, career, friendships, or life in general, regret is a complex and profound emotion that often leaves a lasting impact on our hearts and minds.
In the following paragraphs, you will discover a diverse selection of regret quotes from various authors, philosophers, and notable individuals who have shared their thoughts and perspectives on this intricate emotion. These quotes can serve as a source of inspiration, reflection, or even motivation as you navigate your own journey through life. So, feel free to explore these quotes, whether you want to copy them, pair them with images, or enhance them with stylish fonts to share and contemplate upon. Let’s delve into the world of regret and gain valuable insights on how to navigate it.
There are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain I have caused others by words and actions. To the people I have hurt, I am truly sorry. Matt Lauer
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. J. Edgar Hoover
I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer. Will Ferrell
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh. Henry David Thoreau
I smoked for almost 10 years. I really regret that. Thankfully, I came out on the other side. I hope my lungs are repairing themselves now. Michelle Monaghan
Never regret what you don’t write. Abraham Lincoln
I wouldn’t call Loopt a failure. It didn’t turn out like I wanted, for sure, but it was fun, I learned a lot, and I made enough money to start investing, which led me to my current job. I don’t regret it at all. Sam Altman
I love to never regret, or go, ‘I wish I would have tried that.’ Sara Evans
One can never regret the decisions made at the time you make them, because that can only lead to bitterness and sadness. David Nutter
I regret all of my books. Zora Neale Hurston
I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind. Samuel Adams
Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in. Robert Greene
The only things you regret are the things you don’t do. Michael Curtiz
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Chief Seattle
I try to be happy. I try to face things without regret or make sure that I’m happy with things and leave nothing unsaid if I can. Hozier
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. Barbara Bush
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty. Alphonse Karr
I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past. Marlon Brando
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. Jim Rohn
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. Henri Frederic Amiel
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. Tallulah Bankhead
I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I – but it’s a mistake I can’t regret, because it’s like saying, ‘I shouldn’t have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.’ Orson Welles
I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done. Lucille Ball
I think I don’t regret a single ‘excess’ of my responsive youth – I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace. Henry James
Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I’m content. William Shatner
The regret of my life is that I have not said ‘I love you’ often enough. Yoko Ono
I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me. Zachary Taylor
I do not regret one moment of my life. Lillie Langtry
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. Swami Sivananda
I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid. Katharine Hepburn
Saints are ordinary people who do what they do for the love of Jesus, say what they must say without fear, love their neighbor even when they are cursed by him, and live without regret over yesterday or fear of tomorrow. Mother Angelica
I regret those times when I’ve chosen the dark side. I’ve wasted enough time not being happy. Jessica Lange
Believe me – I’ve done very good stuff and very crazy stuff, and I don’t regret the crazy stuff. Jean-Claude Van Damme
Regret leads to negativity, and negativity kills creativity. Carol Channing
I never regret anything. Michael Sorrentino
I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb. Bobby Knight
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely. Truman Capote
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. Benjamin Disraeli
I regret and suffer those losses, but it’s God’s will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don’t think I did. Augusto Pinochet
I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end. Drew Barrymore
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. Woodrow Wilson
Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. ‘Black Rain’ was very much about choices. The message – we are what we chose to be. Graham Brown
I don’t have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we’ve all made some of those. But I’m not sad about change. John Gutfreund
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late. Ogden Nash
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. George Sand
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. Jonathan Larson
I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret. Kanye West
Sometimes I sit down and I think ‘Do I regret this? Do I regret that?’ And I feel like everything makes this snowball effect, you know? If you regret something, it’s good because it just means that it’s something that’s affected you enough for you to stop and think… There’s a reason that everything happens. Santan Dave
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. Woody Allen
I don’t regret anything. Amy Winehouse
When you go into a game, and there’s something that was drawn up the way it was supposed to be drawn up, and you missed the throw or the catch, as a receiver, it’s something where you feel bad about that. You can always regret just missing it, but as a football player, you have to move on to the next play. Patrick Mahomes
There is nothing to regret with a job well done. Joe Garcia
Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher. Marilyn Ferguson
For better or worse, I refuse to live my life with regret. Sometimes, I’ll look back on my past mistakes with fondness. But I never wished I wouldn’t have made them. That’s why I don’t like re-takes. Takashi Miike
Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action. Aaron Burr
A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps. Charles Goodyear
Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart. Basil Rathbone
I’m living with every step. I can’t live with regret. The past is the past. I’m not worried about it. I can’t change it. I can’t fix it. It is what it is. I’m just living. Ryan Sheckler
In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct. John C. Calhoun
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. Ray Stannard Baker
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations – one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it – you will regret both. Soren Kierkegaard
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. Arthur Schopenhauer
I never regret. I don’t like to look back on my life and have regrets. Sarah Harding
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. Stefan Zweig
I do not regret the things I’ve done, but those I did not do. Rory Cochrane
I wore a ‘Black Metal’ Venom T-shirt once, in January 1993, to promote black metal, and I regret having done that ever since. Varg Vikernes
Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God. Monica Johnson
You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward. Aubrey O’Day
Everything happens for a reason. Like when Im asked if I regret not taking the next steps as a rugby player. Well, If I had I likely wouldn’t have done what I have in darts. Gerwyn Price
I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done. I only wish I could have done more. Mickey Rooney
My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically. Stephen Hawking
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success. J. Paul Getty
I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember… it’s not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not. Randy Pausch
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. Lucy Maud Montgomery
Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret. Robert E. Lee
I don’t have regret about things I’ve done that are successful or not successful or what people perceive or don’t know or whatever. I just know for me it had to be the right choice at the time. Sometimes that choice is just about getting a job. Mark Harmon
As long as you feel good in something, it doesn’t matter what other people think. You just have to own it. You’ll never regret wearing something you really love. Lucy Boynton
Don’t regret your mistakes. You’ll always make mistakes. The better you are, the less mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to thoroughly analyze your mistakes. James Altucher
We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow. Fulton Oursler
Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. Don Miguel Ruiz
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
Do what you love and go after your dreams. Don’t regret it. Don’t hesitate. Jackson Wang
I’d rather regret doing something than not doing something. James Hetfield
People always ask me, ‘What is it that you regret?’ And I say, ‘nothing, because I could not buy what I’ve learned.’ And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices. Katy Perry
The past is a great place and I don’t want to erase it or to regret it, but I don’t want to be its prisoner either. Mick Jagger
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. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing. Gavrilo Princip
I don’t regret what I’ve been through. I’ve had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I’ve been so blessed that I could never say, ‘I wish this didn’t happen.’ It’s part of who I am. There’s nothing in my life that’s so ugh. Jennifer Lopez
I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up. Tina Turner
I live a life that I never regret any decision. Ricky Rubio
I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences… I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else. Queen Latifah
It’s better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Do I regret how my life turned out? Of course not – not for a single second. Ryan Holiday
Religion features more now in my life than it did when I was a kid – my dad rejected the Catholic church as a young man. I had no religious upbringing, but certainly, Dad was a kind of secular humanist. I don’t know if he was an atheist or agnostic. I regret I didn’t talk to him about it. Paul Giamatti
It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don’t regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn’t save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I’m not naive, and I don’t romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job. Chris Kyle
I’m not an active person on social media, really. I always get nervous tweeting anything. The moment I tweet, I get this plummeting sense of regret. I delete roughly 95 percent of my tweets immediately. Charlotte Ritchie
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow. L. Ron Hubbard
Your heart and your instincts are far more reliable than your brain. When you follow your heart, you can be sure you won’t regret it later. Even if you calculate your every move, it’s not like life ever goes according to plan. Nithya Menen
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. Bette Davis
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. Samuel Beckett
