regrets quotes

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.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I’m proud of.

One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn’t had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

Never regret what you don’t write.