Regretful Choices Quotes

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Men should know that no job is more important than their family. I had that all screwed up for a long time. I regret it.

Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.

What if you were really meant to be with someone? But you kept messing about and having the Horn and so on and you lost them.

My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ago. A lot of people have really beautiful tattoos, and I get real tattoo envy. But then other people basically just treat them like bumper stickers for their bodies.

People let little things cheat them out of big opportunities

My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

If stocks are attractive and you don't buy, you don't just look like an idiot, you are an idiot.

Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice.

Repentance follows hasty counsels.

I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.

Attackers may sometimes regret bad moves, but it is much worse to forever regret an opportunity you allowed to pass you by.

I still wake up thinking about draft choices we should have made that would have impacted the franchise for a long time, but I don't wake up thinking about one individual player move.

When you are around 60, there are certain things that are completely terrifying. One of them is that you have made the wrong choices in life, and now it's too late to do anything about them.

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

My mom actually took me to get my first tattoo when I was 15. She highly regrets that choice now, as I have a lot more.

There have been times when I've been broke, and a job came along, and I've said, 'Yeah! Let's do it!' But I will never do something without having a feeling of knowing how to play it. I've been in projects that I felt terrible about afterwards, but I've always had something that sparked me while I was doing it.

I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

I did what I felt that I wanted to do. Fairly selfishly. I didn't know my kids as well as I should have.

I guess I'll have to change my plan I should have realized there'd be another man Why did I buy those blue pyjamas Before the big affair began? I guess I'll have to change my plan.

Live your life like you're 80 looking back on your teenager years. You know if your dad calls you at eight in the morning and asks if you want to go out for breakfast. As a teenager you're like no, I want to sleep. But as an eighty year old looking back you have that breakfast with your dad. It just little things like that, that helped me when I was a teenager in terms of making choices you won't regret.

My role in Palin is something that there's not a day that has gone by that I don't have regret about.