Regret Quotes

I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically - any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women. That is why I am always on about peace, you see. It is the most violent people who go for love and peace. Everything's the opposite. But I sincerely believe in love and peace. I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. I will have to be a lot older before I can face in public how I treated women as a youngster.

We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess. When the grave lies open before us, let's not try to be witty, but record the worst of human viciousness we've seen without changing one word. When that's done, we can curl up our toes and sink into the pit. That's work enough for a lifetime.

We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.

You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.

Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

There is no past that we can bring back to us by the longing for it.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.

I did donate to Nixon. The biggest damn fool mistake I ever made.

A second chance doesn't mean anything if you haven't learned from your first mistake.

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.

I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.

It just flat-out sucks losing. It really - it doesn't feel good.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.