Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes

I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I would have done that a little different' because hindsight is 20/20.

Hindsight is, of course, 20/20. Any time you go back, and you look at something, and now you've got the result of something, you say, 'Yeah, maybe it wasn't the right idea.'

I don't know if I would do this if I had to start over again.

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.

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

Given the opportunity, I might change a choice I made, but you can't regret making what you thought was the best decision at the time.

In life, we always make the right decisions the second time around, you know?

There's always something that you go 'I should've done this better, I would've done that.'

There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done; as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.

First thoughts are not always the best.

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

Every decision you make is a mistake.

What's done can't be undone.

I look back on my work and I think, 'Oh, why didn't I do that differently?'

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.

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

Fully consider the future and the immediate results of all undertakings, and the good and bad sides of all past actions.

Yes, once—many, many years ago. I thought I had made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I ha been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought I was wrong.

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

I'm not a big believer in second-guessing decisions.

I can't take it back. I can't take anything back. So I don't regret it.