Lucille Ball Quotes

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

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

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

In my experience, we only ever regret the things we have not done.

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

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

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.

Life is too short to be scared and not take risks. I'd rather be the person that's like, 'I messed up,' than, 'I wish I did that.'

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

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

I always think about opportunity and how you regret the things you don't do.

At the end, regret only what you didn't do.

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

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

I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.

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.

I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.

It's better to have a pocket full of regrets than to never have lived.

I'd rather end up wishing I hadn’t than end up wishing I had.

It may seem like a big risk to follow your dream, but isn't the greatest risk of all to miss your life?

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

I try to have the motto of living life with no regrets.

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

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.