What Ifs Quotes

I don't engage in hypotheticals.

I don't regret what I've done but some of the things I didn't do.

Life was what happened when all the what-ifs didn't.

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

As one looks back over history it is interesting to speculate on what would have happened if individuals or nations had acted differently in certain crises. I often wonder if these speculations will serve to give any of us more courage in facing new situations!

There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it's hard for me to accept this way of thinking. I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.

One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.

Don’t you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. But realistically speaking, you have to see there’s a huge possibility you’ll never be able to meet him again. And even if you do meet, he might already be married to somebody else. He might have two kids. Isn’t that so? And in that case, you may have to live the rest of your life alone, never being joined with the one person you love in all the world. Don’t you find that scary?

Listen, I could have won the World Championship. Obviously if I had the chance to do it all again I would do things differently. But then would I have still wanted to play?

Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different.

A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

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

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

I think for guys who get severely injured and can't move forward, it's because the 'what-ifs' absolutely destroy their recovery.

If only I'd stayed on the West Coast, I might have made something of myself.

I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.

I don't want to be one of those could have, would have, should have kind of guys.

I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.

Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.

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

Tours always leave us some regrets and thoughts that we could have done better and should have done better.

You can't regret the life you didn't lead.

I think every one of us, in life, have some sort of moment that has happened that we wish we could have done differently or that we wish could have had a different outcome.