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Regret Quotes

Some regrets linger, others never take root.

One athlete names a single lasting regret from an entire professional career — never winning a championship — while another says plainly that choosing a life in business is not something they regret. See Mistake quotes for related reflections.

I don't really regret much of my music life.

Quotes by Aesop Rock

No, I don't regret doing anything, and, you know, at the time, 'Monster-in-Law' was... I was so excited to get that part. I got to be in a big movie for a few months. I got work, and everybody on...

Quotes by Adam Scott

Never regret what you don't write.

Abraham Lincoln

Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

Quotes by Aaron Burr

Alone Quotes

I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.

Quotes by Zola Budd

I chose to be in business, and I don't regret it.

Quotes by Zhou Qunfei

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

Quotes by Zachary Taylor

I had a blast in the '90s, perhaps too much fun, and maybe I should have worked a lot harder and partied a lot less, but I definitely don't regret the 12 years I spent living out in L.A.

Quotes by Zach Galligan

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.

Quotes by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Forgiveness Quotes

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

Quotes by Woodrow Wilson

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Quotes by Woody Allen

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

Quotes by William Shatner

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

Quotes by William Henry Hudson

Regret's kind of like a fool's game.

Quotes by Willam Belli

Mistake Quotes

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

Quotes by Wilhelm von Humboldt

That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a...

Quotes by Warren Moon

Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.

Quotes by Vladimir Putin

I realized that, after tasting entrepreneurship, I had become unfit for the corporate world. There was no turning back. The only regret I had was having wasted my life in the corporate world for so long.

Quotes by Vivek Wadhwa

If you regret a mistake, don't just make that mistake again. Look at it and learn from it and grow from it.

Quotes by Vitor Belfort

Pain Quotes

Football spectators appreciate a bit of loyalty, and we're seeing that less and less. There are echelons of football, as in society, where some players are clearly mercenaries. I regret in a way that somehow the local identification, the local...

Quotes by Vincent Nichols

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the emotional range of the "Regret" quotes here?
From a career-related regret in sports, to a business decision someone stands by, to a solemn statement from someone facing death, to a real, sharply controversial historical position.
Is there a quote about not regretting a career choice?
Yes: "I chose to be in business, and I don't regret it" — a simple, confident statement about standing by a life decision.
Is there a quote about regret in professional sports?
One describes never winning "a championship in the N.F.L." as "the one regret" from a long sports career, while still affirming that competing "on any level of team sports" is about wanting to win.
Is there a quote from someone facing death?
Yes, a solemn one: "I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me" — framing regret not around the speaker's own fate, but around the people they're leaving. See Past quotes for related reflective themes.
Is there a controversial historical statement in this collection?
Yes — one real quote reads "I will never regret not denouncing apartheid." It's a genuinely controversial historical position, and this page presents it exactly as that specific individual's own stated stance, without naming or elaborating on who said it or the surrounding context. It is not an endorsement of that position by this page.

The most poignant line here is an old, duty-driven farewell: having always done one's duty, ready for whatever comes, with only one regret — for the friends left behind. Browse Pain quotes and Forgiveness quotes for more.