Molly Ringwald Quotes

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Apology is often the first step in correcting a wrong. Having moved for a position of saying 'I don't need forgiveness,' Mr. Trump is now taking a second look at past behaviors, things that he's said and done that he regrets. While he is not asking for forgiveness for being human, he is admitting that he's made mistakes and humbly making apologies.

If I could do it all over again, I would have never gone to Russia.

Guilt is not the best way to remedy your mistakes.

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.

I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s.

What happens if your choice is misguided, You must try to correct it But what if it’s too late? What if you can’t? Then you must find a way to live with it.

As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

My father passed away before he saw me perform. I can't help but wonder what he would think of all this. I go to a job in full makeup.

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

As I'm getting older a lot of my friends I used to go out and party with, they're all dead. The fact that I've been through that, I'm not proud of the fact that I've been through all that, but it's part of my journey. I'm lucky to be alive. I'm lucky to be playing music.

When a man eats his words, that's recycling.

One can repent even of having repented.

Life has only gotten better personally for me as I've gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person.

I don't regret not coming out early. A lot of people felt that I could have been a lottery pick, but we'll never know.

One grows out of pity when it's useless.

Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision.

I remember my mistakes more than my success.

A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which I find an inspiring idea...Thus, when we allow ourselves to imagine as we once did, we know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we don't go right now, we're never going to do it. And we'll be haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves gravely.

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

No man is obliged to be what he might have been.

Sometimes the greatest things are the most embarrassing.

Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder

At forty-two, I had never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was part of the problem--my chronic inability to astonish myself. I promise you, no one judges me more harshly than I do myself; I caused a brilliant wreckage. Some say I fell from grace; they're being kind. I didn't fall. I dove.