Regret Quotes

"To regret deeply is to live afresh."
-Henry David Thoreau

"We never regret having eaten too little."
-Thomas Jefferson

"It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and sensless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart."
-Jonathan Carroll

"Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think."
-Lope De Vega

"Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting."
-Arthur Brisbane

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

"If you marry you will regret it. If you do not marry you will regret it. If you marry or do not marry, you will regret it."
-Soren Kierkegaard

"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."
-Victoria Holt

"We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us."
-Lucy Maud Montgomery

"I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent."
-Publilius Syrus

"Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow."
-L. Ron Hubbard

"KPMG is pleased to have reached a resolution with the Department of Justice. We regret the past tax practices that were the subject of the investigation. KPMG is a better and stronger firm today, having learned much from this experience."
-Timothy Flynn

"I'm very sorry if I offended anybody. I'd like to put it in the past now. What's done is done. I regret it."
-Prince Harry

"Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret."
-Robert E. Lee

"I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace."
-Henry James

"We regret the hardship that this change will create for employees and the community. We have many fine workers at both locations and we plan to do everything we can to assist employees with the transition."
-Catherine Misko

"I believe I was extremely greedy. I've lost my moral compass and did things I regret."
-Andrew Fastow

"My biggest regret in life is saving David Frost from drowning."
-Peter Cook

"Believers, Jews, Sabaeans or Christians - whoever believes in God and the Last Day and does what is right - shall have nothing to fear or regret."
-Quran

"In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made."
-Kathleen Norris

"Speaking for the City of Kennett, it is with regret that we hear this information."
-Donald Parker

"BBC Persian.com is a major source of news for Iranians, and has the biggest impact of any online site or newspaper in Persian. We are very concerned at this action and regret that it deprives a great number of ordinary Iranians of a trusted source of impartial and editorially independent news and information."
-Nigel Chapman

"I regret that I had to report the facts yesterday, which is that (unfettered access) had not been given, and we can't adequately do our jobs under these circumstances."
-Richard Butler

"My biggest regret is that our share of the enterprise computer market is still very small, so we've got a lot to do in 2006."
-Karen Guo

"Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty."
-Alphonse Karr

"Our only regret is that it didn't last longer. That was Bill's decision."
-Lee Salem

"It is with great regret that I hereby resign my position. I have learned a lot and contribute much of my career to your guidance."
-Allen Clark

"It seemed to me that the desire to get married - which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again."
-Nora Ephron