Henry A. Kissinger Quotes

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

I have looked back on situations and thought that I could have handled a few differently and probably better.

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.

I have many regrets and things I wish I could go back and change, but I have also worked hard and tried to improve myself.

I don't regret anything, but that doesn't mean that I don't look back and think, 'What was I thinking?'

All of us from time to time look back and think we could've handled things differently or better.

If someone were to say, 'Well, what would you have done differently?' I'd say, 'Nothing'. I think you need to make mistakes.

I don't regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn't pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.

I made the wrong mistakes

I remember my mistakes more than my success.

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

As seemingly impossible as it may seem of having zero regrets, when I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.

We do things in our past that we need to do at the time.

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

If I had to do it over, I wouldn't change a thing.

We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.

If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.

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

What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

I wouldn't go back and change anything.

I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.

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.

I missed a lot of decisions. At the time of making such a decision, there was no doubt in my mind as to its correctness. However, a second or two later I felt that I erred and wished I could change my original ruling.

You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.