Patrick Stump Quotes

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

The only things you regret are the things you don't do.

In life you don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do.

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life.

I never want to look back on life and say I wish I did something, and I don't want anybody else to do that.

I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have.’ And I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day.

Will you look back on life and say, 'I wish I had,' or 'I’m glad I did'?

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

I think you regret the things that you don't do more than the things you do.

The only regrets I have are things I didn't do.

It's so much worse to live in regret in your forties than it is to take a chance in your late twenties.

Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.

I think you balance the things you've been dying to do all your life. And the opportunities that come along, that you didn't maybe think of, that are so amazing, that you'd kick yourself if you didn't try to be a part of them.

It's better to regret what you have done than what you haven't.

When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.

I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

I don't want to completely self-sabotage everything that I've got and alienate everyone. But I definitely want to take some chances as I always have.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.