Amy Tan Quotes

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

You tend to regret the things you haven't done.

I’ve learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough.

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Who does not talk cannot be judged. Who does not shoot the penalty cannot miss.

There are moments in your life where you realize you could do nothing, but if you do, you'll probably regret it forever.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

I think the worst decision is usually no decision. If you make the wrong decision you can usually course-correct, but if you don't make it, you've already made it, and it's usually the bad one.

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

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

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

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

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

Not deciding is a decision. Let’s all remember that when we decide not to do something.

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

the time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre