Life Regrets Quotes

When they told me I had to have a heart operation, my main memory is standing in my kitchen and thinking what I would really miss was my little tea towel. Not for one minute did I think, 'Oh, I'm going to really miss performing.' The things you're going to miss are your wife, your egg cup, your seat that you sit in to watch TV.

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

[When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advantages squandered.

We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can't get across that gully.

I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.

The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called — which only a nerd would call — a “regret minimization framework.” So, I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, “Okay, now I’m looking back on my life. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.”

I don't think there is life beyond death. I don't. But I do believe that we get this clarity in the last minute of our life. The titles we achieved, the honors we managed, they all vanish. You are left alone with you and your deeds and the things you didn't do.

Do I have any regrets about my life? No.

If I fall if I die know I lived it to the fullest, if I fall if I die know I lived and missed some bullets

You can't afford to live your life with regrets.

If I was lying on the side of the mountain, dying, would I have any regrets? Yeah. I would regret not making films.

You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.

But I knew that someday I was going to die. And just before I died two things would happen; Number 1: I would regret my entire life. Number 2: I would want to live my life over again.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.

Everyone seems to be rushing through their lives, wishing they had just two minutes to do all the things they want to get gone.

Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life.

Postponing doing the really interesting things in life for later, when you don't have the energy.

When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

It's pathetic to have regrets about fashion. Things to do with my life, yes, I have regrets there.

If you are stuck at a dead-end job, or you know your friends are bringing you down, the time to act is now. You don't know how much time you've got left.

Let us not live a life … that would bring regret. … It is not going to matter very much how much money you made, what kind of a house you lived in, what kind of a car you drove, the size of your bank account—any of those things. What is going to matter is that dear woman who has walked with you side by side as your companion through all of the years of life and those children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren and their faithfulness and their looking to you … with respect and love and deference and kindness.

I think, from every actor I've ever spoken to, they say the biggest thing they regret from life is not finishing school.