Zig Ziglar Quotes

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

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

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

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.

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

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 don't want things that I regret in life, and things that I have not done - and I don't want to at 80 years wake up, and tell myself: 'Oh I was on top of my shape and skills and I didn't do it.'

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

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.

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.

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

Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.

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

I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.

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

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

You can't afford to live your life with regrets.

One of the big things that I focus on is not having regrets, just taking every opportunity I have and going for it.

Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.

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.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.