Regret Quotes

2936 Regret quotes by 1844 unique authors

To be honest and truthful in all endeavours is an experience, not a regret — Fela Kuti
I did it my way, and I have no regrets when I look back on my career that it was just a big focus for… — Pete Sampras
I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family - I'm… — Bjorn Borg
I deeply regret to say that terrorism has become globalized: ' From New York to Mosul, from Damascus to Baghdad, from the Easternmost to the… — Hassan Rouhani
Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable… — Vaclav Havel
Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet the fact is,… — Jane Jacobs
At peace? Who but the insane would ever be at peace? What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough? Who could… — Jess Walter
The only thing we can control is what we do in the present. The more we replay yesterday, the further we get from today's opportunities.… — John C. Maxwell
Until we have finally accepted the fact that there is nothing we can do to change the past, our feelings of regret and remorse and… — Jim Rohn
In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about… — Oliver Stone
Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble. — Darin Strauss
No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity;––for thoughts, there is always time; life… — Emile M. Cioran
A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life — Emile M. Cioran
Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret… — Emile M. Cioran
Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate… — Emile M. Cioran
Whoever wishes to blame or attack me is entitled to do so. I regret I didn't have enough experience to totally control the movement. On… — Pol Pot
The consequence could be that we would have an escalation that would take place that would not only involve many lives, but I think it… — Leon Panetta
If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires there shall be no regrets. — Bessie Coleman
I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I… — Gavrilo Princip
I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words. — Harry Reid
I have no regrets and if I had nine lives I would have gladly given them all up for my country. — Unknown Author
A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal… — Saint Augustine
Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because… — Samuel Johnson

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