Quotes about Regret
We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.
— Samuel Johnson
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
— Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
— Mark Twain
Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.
— Mark Twain
That which I have seen, in that little moment, will never go out from my memory, but will abide there; and I shall see it all the days, and dream of it all the nights, till I die. Would God I had been blind!
— Mark Twain
It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror.
— Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
— Mark Twain
You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.
— Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.
— Mark Twain
Only two things we'll regret on deathbed — that we are a little loved and little traveled.
— Mark Twain
Then her conscience reproached her, and she yearned to say something kind and loving; but she judged that this would be construed into a confession that she had been in the wrong, and discipline forbade that. So she kept silence, and went about her affairs with a troubled heart.
— Mark Twain
We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words 'Too Late'.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.