Regret Quotes

The unfortunate condition of the persons, whose labour in part I employed, has been the only unavoidable subject of regret. To make the Adults among them as easy & as comfortable in their circumstances as their actual state of ignorance & improvidence would admit; & to lay a foundation to prepare the rising generation for a destiny different from that in which they were born; afforded some satisfaction to my mind, & could not I hoped be displeasing to the justice of the Creator.

I have often thought how much happier I should have been, if instead of accepting of a command under such circumstances, I had taken my musket upon my shoulders and entered the rank, or if I could have justified the measure of posterity, and my own conscience, had retired to the back country, and lived in a wigwam. If I shall be able to rise superior to these, and many other difficulties which might be enumerated, I shall most religiously believe that the finger of Providence is in it, to blind the eyes of our enemies; for surely if we get well through this month, it must be for want of their knowing the disadvantages we labor under.

Any survey of the free world's defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort and resources must be devoted to armaments.

The true conquests, the only ones that cause no regret, are those made over ignorance.

MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion of the world.

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.

Tries to think that I'm just doing my own thing, but every time I look back it always really makes sense in that time.

Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.

Nothing had the chance to be good nothing ever could.

In 1998 when I did the album 'Blue,' that was my worst phase.

There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.

I was letting people dictate who should be my friends. I felt like I couldn't be friends with Madonna. And so I dissed her, even though she showed me nothing but love. I felt bad because when I went to jail, I called her and she was the only person that was willing to help me.

My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn't buy it back. I don't know, really. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It was mine. It cost me nothing and suddenly I had to buy it back.

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

I know I'm probably much too late to try and apologize for my mistakes.

It's nice to look back on your life and see things as lessons, and not regrets.

I was so ashamed of who I was, a kind of semi-racist, which didn't make sense.

I find C major to be the key of strength, but also the key of regret. E major is the key of confidence. A-flat major is the key of renunciation.

I think the words you stop yourself from saying are the ones that will haunt you the longest.