Top 470 Regret Quotes

Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.
Eugene Jarecki
I was up for Michael Corleone in ‘The Godfather,’ but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think Mr. Coppola made the right choice. The Julia Roberts role in ‘Pretty Woman’ held a bizarre allure for me. But, it’s silly to look back with regret.
Eric Stoltz
I’ll always regret how I recorded ‘Burgundy’ ’cause it’s not how I felt. The words that were coming out of my mouth and how I mean them, it’s so much different.
Earl Sweatshirt
I don’t want to rush into retirement and regret it, because people say play as long as possible until the legs can’t take any more.
Phil Neville
I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
Bobby Knight
I don’t for a second regret my closeness to them because they were wonderful, golden parents who gave me so much confidence.
Miriam Margolyes
I think one of the things I regret was not having more faith in myself early on.
Myles Kennedy
Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.
Bahman Ghobadi
I have always worked with utmost care. I have given my

I have always worked with utmost care. I have given my 25 years. I seemed I have more to offer than just acting. So, there is no regret.
Roopa Ganguly
I have done ‘Sports Illustrated,’ but I don’t regret it because it portrayed me in a positive way – as an athlete.
Alex Morgan
I’d rather regret doing something than not doing something.
James Hetfield
As long as you feel good in something, it doesn’t matter what other people think. You just have to own it. You’ll never regret wearing something you really love.
Lucy Boynton
Every comedian dreams of hosting ‘The Tonight Show’ and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second.
Conan O’Brien
I believe in the redemptive need to admit mistakes, express regret, and ask for forgiveness.
Ana Navarro
I do not regret one moment of my life.
Lillie Langtry
My biggest regret is not winning the Super Bowl.
Ron Rivera
When I get a fringe, it’s because I’m bored or need a change; I always regret it!
Chloe Sevigny
I look back in retrospect, and I would never say I regret not one of my children. They are why I live.
Nadya Suleman
It’s important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask. Sometimes our choices aren’t the wisest of choices, and we regret them, but they are our choices. I think it’d be wrong to think that they’re automatically bad.
James Gleick
It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we probably would not know in advance and, once the discovery is made, it cannot be undiscovered.
Paul Davies
I regret the 1998 – 99 lockout. I regret that we didn’t work harder to educate our players and our owners about what the damage would be. I never can quite come up with the answer on what else we should have done, but I always blame a part of the problem on us and some part on the players.
David Stern
I’m very open with my life, and I don’t regret it because it’s what got me here.
Colleen Ballinger
My biggest regret is that I’ve assisted the media in making me into a cartoon character. I don’t regret what has happened to me, but I regret the way I have dealt with it.
Megan Fox
We very much regret that our merger with Sprint was not allowed to proceed.
Bernard Ebbers
In ‘D.A.R.Y.L.’ there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn’t even use it. It can get kind of frustrating. But I don’t regret that I decided to become an actor. Besides, if I don’t like it at any time, I can stop.
Barret Oliver
I do regret that when I went to college, I didn’t have a liberal arts education. I got a BFA in musical theater, so it was a very directed toward what I was doing. I wish that I had expanded my horizons a little bit.
Heather Dubrow
I don’t regret how I built the Cruiserweight division. Could I have done better? Sure. Absolutely. I’m sure I could have, especially with 20/20 hindsight. I just don’t know of anybody that I talk to that looks back at that division and says, ‘Oh, man, that sucked.’
Eric Bischoff
I wasn’t mentally prepared to take care of them, I was focused on my career. And then when I got to be in my 40s and I thought about having kids, I wasn’t able to have kids naturally. I don’t regret it.
Aisha Tyler
I was trying to protect my wife, I was trying to protect myself from shame, and I really regret it.
Anthony Weiner
I don’t start fights, but sometimes I don’t walk away from them. It hasn’t happened in a long time, but it’s happened, and I regret those times. I should have been more in control of myself, stronger, more adult.
Jim Brown
When you get older, you are told constantly that you should be there for your parents’ deaths, otherwise you will regret it. But what we are not prepared for is a sudden, brutal death that you are there for, with medical people shouting and things bleeping and your parent gasping for breath.
David Baddiel
I have a love-hate relationship with working out. I do not enjoy the experience when I’m doing it, but I never regret it.
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
In doing my podcast, I do find that I tend to try out bits that I then try on stage later that day. If they work, great, and if they don’t, I regret having talked about it on the podcast.
Kurt Braunohler
I don’t regret anything I say… Never.
LaVar Ball
Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was 26. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don’t take it off until you’re 34.
Nora Ephron
I don’t regret what I’ve done but some of the things I didn’t do.
Carol Kane
If I’m awake at 2 A.M., I’m either suffering from anxiety or doing something I will regret tomorrow.
Erin Foster
Childfree women are actually great assets to the planet. Our carbon footprint is smaller than a mom’s! And we have enough money to write checks to organizations that help kids get vaccinations, vitamins, and educations yet have plenty of free time to advise your daughter that one day she will regret piercing her lip.
Jen Kirkman
There are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain I have caused others by words and actions. To the people I have hurt, I am truly sorry.
Matt Lauer
I regret behaving badly when I was younger. I did not k

I regret behaving badly when I was younger. I did not know any better at the time. The thing is that the incidents that I caused were not funny… Youth is wasted on the young. It is better to have the wisdom of an old man in a young body… I was a bit foolish and teased people, trying to be funny.
Jim Broadbent
The past is a great place and I don’t want to erase it or to regret it, but I don’t want to be its prisoner either.
Mick Jagger
It’s better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don’t regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can’t have it all.
Lauren Bacall
It is my biggest regret that I let my marriage to Erica fail. It is what it is, and she is doing an incredible job with the kids, and we are in a great place.
James Packer
I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.
Brian Bosworth
I know there’s an impression that I’m someone who seeks to have violent confrontations with people. I don’t. Do I regret screaming at some guy who practically clipped my kid in the head with the lens of a camera? Yeah, I probably do, because it’s only caused me problems.
Alec Baldwin
I worked my butt off in high school and received a lot of scholarships for college and to throw all that away for acting was tough for my family, but it was just something I felt my heart pulling me towards and don’t regret a single minute of it. I love to act!
Kellan Lutz
I never really felt 100 percent me while singing in those Jimin years. But I don’t regret it, because I think that it was the only time that I can sing those songs, when I was in my early 10s and teens.
Jamie Park
I don’t regret anything I’ve gone through.
Jessica Simpson
For me I think the sport is as good as it is, I really personally miss the sound a lot of the old engines, the V8s, the V10s. That is personally my biggest regret or miss, what is lacking I think with the sensation of Formula 1, a lot of people associate also with that.
Nico Hulkenberg
For better or worse, I refuse to live my life with regret. Sometimes, I’ll look back on my past mistakes with fondness. But I never wished I wouldn’t have made them. That’s why I don’t like re-takes.
Takashi Miike
I don’t regret anything I’ve done. But all I have to show for it are stories.
Michael Caputo
Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
Basil Rathbone
I always had a sort of niggling regret that we didn’t come do stuff in America.
Noel Fielding
That’s why I ended up leaving school – because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it.
Shawn Fanning
My life was really focused on futbol, but as those things happen in life, my passion for music won over my passion for futbol. But I love what I do. I don’t regret it.
Maluma
I have one regret that whenever I look at the list of world’s leading scorers, I don’t see any Pakistani who has scored 10,000 Test runs; even I couldn’t do it ,nor Muhammad Yousuf.
Inzamam-ul-Haq
You look at the road you could have taken, you know, I just think that’s interesting… I’ve been on a lot of roads and I had to hitchhike on a couple of ’em… I have to be very honest: There’s not an awful lot of regret in my life. I think that, you know, you learn from everything, and then, sometimes, you don’t.
Polly Bergen