Michael Scott Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.

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

I have done a lot of crazy things in my life, and I do not regret anything.

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

I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

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

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.

There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.'

I was offered some film roles, and I did not do them. It would have been interesting, but I have no regrets. I am where I am; I accept and embrace the mistakes because they're character-building and they build perspective and talent.

Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well - there's another notch on my experience belt.

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.

If I was starting off now, I would probably have taken one or two different turnings along the way.

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.