Frank Abagnale Quotes

I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of.

I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

We've all said and done things we... wish we'd done differently.

I know I've done good things, I know I've done bad things.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

I just hope everybody forgives me for whatever I did wrong. And hope they remember some of what I did right.

I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.

He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn't done in life. They wish they hadn't kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.

I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 A.M. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.

I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

I don't feel like a very nostalgic person. I think about the past much more clinically. When I look back and wonder, 'Why was I doing that? Was it a waste of time?' I don't beat myself up. Instead, I say, 'I'm so glad I did that, because now I really know what matters to me.'

I've done a lot of things that I regret.

I regret so much. I've made mistakes. I've hurt people. I've done things I'm not proud of. But on the other hand, that way lies madness, you know?

I act the way I act and I'm not proud of it.

Listen, not all of us are proud of what we say or do at times.

I go back to December, turn around and make it alright I go back to December, turn around and change my own mind I go back to December all the time

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.

How many times, over how many years, had he—a grown man—asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick of himself, so revolted, that he could have groaned aloud.

And yet she could not forgive herself. Even as an adult, she wished only that she could go back and change things: the ungainly things she’d worn, the insecurity she’d felt, all the innocent mistakes she made.

Your own regrets may not be as ugly as you think they are.

I wish I had a nickel for every time I fell and blamed someone else. I'd give a ton of money to the ones I've hurt.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.