James Milner Quotes

My goal in life is to make decisions that minimize regrets. I don't regret anything I've done.

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.

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

I don't have any regrets.

I was never looking back in regret. I never thought, Oh, why didn't I become an actress? or Why did I just go paddling along after John? I've always walked along right by his side, and he's always supported everything I do.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

I'm not a regret guy.

I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.

The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.

The path that I chose was simple - it was the exact path I should've taken, and I have no regrets at all.

I was so intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn't living an interesting life myself.

The only big life challenge I think I'm worried about is a mid-life crisis because I've done so little. I think if people who've lived normal lives have mid-life crises and buy motorbikes, what is a man who's done nothing?

I did not want to later look back in my life and say, 'Why would you not make times change?'

I don't like having regrets, I think it's important not to.

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

No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

But if I could go back in time, I wouldn't do a single thing differently. What if all those things I did were the things that got me here?

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

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

Everybody has their own rules, and so do I. I have always lived on my own terms. As far as mistakes are concerned, I've made them and acknowledged them as mistakes, not regrets. I consider my life a success. There's nothing that I would re-do. I've always done what I felt was right.

A lot of people have wondered what I've been up to. I retired from my career after 24 years. My feeling was that it was time to play my biggest part - Myself!

I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion.