Quotes About Regret

My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God--then having it taken away, forever.

God, I wish you could have been there.

Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.

Boldness in the course of a noble fight is worth the risk...If you stand on truth, you'll only regret your timidity later, but you'll never regret being bold.

A man only misfortune is to forsake his Maker.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

I missed a lot of good times, doing things that I shouldn't have been doing. There are certain mistakes I'd like to change, but I'm not going to trip on it to hard.

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

The only good thing you ever said was goodbye.

I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.

When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.

Hell is full of good wishes or desires.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.

I can see that now. I can see everything once it's already happened — I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.

Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

Forgiveness is beautiful and it feels good when someone gives that gift to you. But it's one thing for someone you wronged to forgive you. It was another to forgive yourself.