Regret Quotes

"You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever."

"Let's not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that's gone."

"Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh."

"[The confident, Harvard-trained lawyer who became wealthy arguing cases before the Supreme Court also declined to express regret for certain memos he wrote as a young, wise-cracking counsel to the Reagan administration. At one point, Kennedy told Roberts that his writings on voting rights lacked an appreciation for problems related to racial discrimination.] I'm deeply troubled by a narrow and cramped and perhaps even a mean-spirited view of the law that appears in some of your writings, ... you have not accurately represented my position."

"To regret deeply is to live afresh."

"I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry."

"We rarely repent of having eaten too little."

"Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it come to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh."

"Mostly you regret things you did not do."

"There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind"

"I will always cherish the times at JGR. The only thing that I regret is that we didn't win more races and/or championships."

"This is a violation of the sanctions regime, something that we deeply regret and are quite disappointed in, both in terms of the substance and the procedure that was followed by France."

"To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing."

"Never do today what you can as well do tomorrow, because something may occur to make you regret your premature action"

"We regret having to make these painful workforce reductions, but believe they are necessary for us to remain a strong, vibrant organization,"

"The local stations have the responsibility for reaching retransmission agreements in their respective markets. While we regret that some cable viewers cannot get access ... this is an issue for KDNL and the cable system to resolve."

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

"The president does not regret one word of his interview with Le Monde, which is very clear."

"I was completely gone and to carry on would have wasted everyone's time. When I look back I'll probably regret it because it was unprofessional, but it was the second match in a row I'd lost from 4-2 up and it was on my mind."

"It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live"