Is it better to......

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

........regret things you have done and should not have

......or

regret the things you should have done but didn't.

I always end up doing things I should not.

[Doctor Gollum]

Regret nothing. You make the choices you do for a reason. If you make bad choices, next time try and make better ones

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Regret nothing. You make the choices you do for a reason. If you make bad choices, next time try and make better ones

True.

If you make a poor choice at least you will know for sure.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I'm optimistic so naturally presume things will work out for the best.

Some people can be given 99 reasons why something will work and just one possible reason why it won't.......they then cling on to that one reason.

That is pessimists for you.

[redelitev6]

I always regret not meeting those sorts of girls your mother used to warn you about 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I always regret not meeting those sorts of girls your mother used to warn you about 

I met them. No regrets.

Galloping knob rot is easily cured.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Both. When you do things you shouldn't, it may well hurt other people. Which is why the "never regret" attitude irks me somewhat.
If your actions have a negative effect on others, you should regret it.
I have a long list of both and regret both equally. The things I didn't do and should have are mainly financial. If I had chosen the other option on two or three occasions I would be well off now.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I always regret not meeting those sorts of girls your mother used to warn you about 

I met them. No regrets.

Galloping knob rot is easily cured.

Yes those girls were always much more fun! 

Galloping knob rot is easily prevented. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Both. When you do things you shouldn't, it may well hurt other people. Which is why the "never regret" attitude irks me somewhat.
If your actions have a negative effect on others, you should regret it.
I have a long list of both and regret both equally. The things I didn't do and should have are mainly financial. If I had chosen the other option on two or three occasions I would be well off now.

As part of the French car scene you are a wealthy man indeed.

[BazaJT]

Better to seek forgiveness than ask for permission?

[Doctor Gollum]

Both. When you do things you shouldn't, it may well hurt other people. Which is why the "never regret" attitude irks me somewhat.
If your actions have a negative effect on others, you should regret it.
I have a long list of both and regret both equally. The things I didn't do and should have are mainly financial. If I had chosen the other option on two or three occasions I would be well off now.

Regretting and taking responsibility are two very different things.

For example, I wish I had done things differently twenty years ago, but I don't regret my choices. Although I do accept that those choices have lead me to where I am now.

[Rangie]

Regrets I have a few , but then again too few to mention 😀😀😀

[Sir Tigger KC]

I always end up doing things I should not.

I wonder what has prompted this thread? 

Has our Lord been kicked out for some misadventure or other, and is now living in a bedsit in a HMO full of Eastern European field hands in downtown Boston? 

[Sir Tigger KC]

Hmmm he's not saying......   

Never mind M'lud, it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all! 

[STEMO]

Hmmm he's not saying......   

Never mind M'lud, it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all! 

This is Opti, he's talking about cars he bought or should/shouldn't have bought.