William Wordsworth Quotes

I don't know why I did it.

What happened? How did I get here? How could I have known that my choices mattered?

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

I don't know if I would do this if I had to start over again.

Sometimes you get to a place in life where you feel you've made some choices, and maybe they weren't the right choices, and that it's all coming to an end.

I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.

Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.

I missed a lot of decisions. At the time of making such a decision, there was no doubt in my mind as to its correctness. However, a second or two later I felt that I erred and wished I could change my original ruling.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

Doubt yourself all you want, but you have to make choices in life and live with them.

I still haven't come to grips with our success.

I wonder if we haven’t committed the most dreadful folly.

Thirty years on, I am no longer as certain about anything as I was at age 20. I now regret my support for the war in Iraq and kick myself for the naive expectation that freedom was destined to prevail.

You never know what I'm gonna do.

I'm not a big believer in second-guessing decisions.

In many cases, if we knew what it would take, we might have thought twice about it, so it's often wonderful that we don't have hindsight.

I often think, if I hadn't have done 'Blood, Sweat and T-shirts,' where would I be? What would I be doing?

I think one of the things I regret was not having more faith in myself early on.

It's easy to look into the future and worry about the past.

I'm going to be 75 in May. How can I have lived this long and not know anything?

Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.

I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?'