My one regret in life is that I'm not someone else.
~ Woody Allen

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
~ Lucille Ball

I have no regrets, I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
~ Ingrid Bergman

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

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
~ Samuel Butler

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
~ Agatha Christie

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
~ William Cowper

It's the things I might have said that fester.
~ Clemence Dane

Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs.
~ Charles Dickens

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.
~ Wayne Dyer

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
~ Bob Dylan

Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden.
~ T. S. Eliot

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
~ Oliver Goldsmith

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
~ George Halas

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

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regretà if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.
~ Katharine Hepburn

I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.
~ Midori Ito

We rarely repent of having eaten too little.
~ Thomas Jefferson

The only things I regret... are the things I didn't do.
~ Joe Karbo

It's not what your are, it's what you don't become that hurts.
~ Oscar Levant