143 Forget The Past Quotes

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Famous Forget The Past Quotes

Forget the past and live the present hour. — Sarah Knowles Bolton

Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment. — Nicole Kidman

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. — Christian D. Larson

The past is over... forget it. The future holds hope... reach for it. — Charles R. Swindoll

Yesterday does not equal tomorrow. Forget the past and move towards your goals. — Tony Robbins

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable — Martin Amis

Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past. — Ivica Dacic

You cannot forget the past but you can forgive it. — Raila Odinga

Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return. — Subramanya Bharathi

Forget yesterday, live for today. Tomorrow will take care of itself. - Rick Ross

Forget yesterday, live for today. Tomorrow will take care of itself. — Rick Ross

Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise. — Paramahansa Yogananda

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future. — Jodi Picoult

The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors. — Lu Xun

Never think about something wrong you did in the past, always look forward with your head up high; have no regrets. — Jared Leto

Now is the PERFECT TIME to forget your past, forgive yourself, and begin again. — Russell Brunson

Short Forget The Past Quotes

  • Be not the slave of your own past. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The future’s too bright to dwell on the past. Life moves fast, run faster. — Frank Iero
  • Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future. — Alan Cohen
  • The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it. — Alan Moore
  • Learn from the past, but don’t live in the past. — Steve Maraboli
  • You can't let your past hold your future hostage. — LL Cool J
  • The past does not define, you the present does. — Jillian Michaels
  • People shouldn't dwell on the past. It's enough to try your best in all that you're doing now. — Aya Kito
  • Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on. — Robert Redford
  • Never look back on something bad, yesterday is gone, today is now, tomorrow doesn't exist. — Shannon Leto

Forget The Past Image Quotes

Forget the past quote You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

Don't Forget The Past Quotes

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. — Johnny Cash

Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself. — Neville Goddard

Don't stumble over something behind you. — Seneca

Forget the past quote Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.

When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say. — Lionel Richie

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade. — James W. Loewen

Never worry about anything that is past. Charge it up to experience and forget the trouble. There are always plenty of troubles ahead, so don't turn and look back on any behind you. — Herbert Hoover

Forget the past quote Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.

First, forgive. Second, forget by choosing not to dwell on that which is forgiven and in the past. We have no right to keep in front of us what God has put behind Him. — David Jeremiah

Those who don't remember the past are doomed to repeat it. — Sara Shepard

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind. — Brian Eno

Salvation is one of the Bible's great words, but many don't understand that the Bible presents salvation in three stages. Many people consider salvation a one-time, past event. They forget its ongoing nature. — David Jeremiah

Never Forget The Past Quotes

J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history. — J. Edgar Hoover

Anything worth having is hard to keep, I love you like my coffee, so hot and so sweet. So, let's stick it out so we never regret it, I could forgive the past-but I never forget it. — Ghostface Killah

We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget. — Paul Gillmor

Forget the past quote You're a work of art. Not everyone will understand you, but the ones who do, will never forget about
You're a work of art. Not everyone will understand you, but the ones who do, will never forget about you.

You can't forget the things you did in the past, or you'll never learn from them. — Cassandra Clare

The man who broods over the past can never master the difficulties of today. Every wise man learn to forget. — Herbert Newton Casson

For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me. I shall fly to her, fall down before her: you were right to walk past me.. farewell and forget your victim, never trouble yourself more! — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Forget the past quote Don't let the past steal your present. Your past has not defined, deterred or defeated you. It has o
Don't let the past steal your present. Your past has not defined, deterred or defeated you. It has only strengthened who you are today.

South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting. — Nelson Mandela

I like being what the girls call MOD-"my other Dad." What I've learned in the past year is that every kid is different. But as long as you love them and never forget that love, then you have the key. I think it's all about just being there and loving them because kids feel that every single day. — Ashton Kutcher

When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations. — E. M. Forster

It's easier to forget the past if nothing ever reminds you of those leathery old scars that can never again feel any loss or pain; the old wounds must be kept open if you are going to remember their cause and regret their occurrence. — Peter Robinson

Move On Forget The Past Quotes

It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future. — Alan Paton

Live today, forget the past — Greek Proverbs

In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. — Deepak Chopra

Forget the past quote When thinking about life, remember this: no amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of an
When thinking about life, remember this: no amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of anxiety can change the future.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future. — Carl Sandburg

The past does not equal the future. — Tony Robbins

The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future. — Alyson Noel

Forget the past quote It's not the future that you're afraid of. It's repeating the past that makes you anxious.
It's not the future that you're afraid of. It's repeating the past that makes you anxious.

If I have learned one thing in my life, it is that lamentation and regrets only make things worse. A person must move on, move forward but never forget the past, but learn from it. If you ponder the 'if onlys' of life, they will drive you mad. — Lorraine Heath

Can't Forget The Past Quotes

Something to remember on your birthday..Forget the past, it can't be changed..And, forget the present because I didn't get you one. — Brian Jones

Good friends we have had, oh good friends we've lost along the way In this bright future you can't forget your past So dry your tears I say. — Bob Marley

The Super Bowl is a game. Life is for real. What I went through helped me get to where I am today. I won't forget. I can't forget. Because a man who forgets his past sometimes loses his soul and forgets where to go in the future. — Junior Seau

Forget the past quote Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

The genius' behind the new Rocky movie decided to call it Rocky Balboa so that we'll probably forget that it's number six. Or Rocky Balboa can't count past five. — Doug Benson

Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past? — Harold Pinter

There's a huge seal called 'impossibility' pasted all over this world. And don't ever forget that we're the only ones who can tear it off once and for all. — Yukio Mishima

Forget the past quote The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many times, no? I try to think of what I wrote, it’s very unhealthy to think about the past, the case of elegies is very sad, as much as the case of complaints. — Jorge Luis Borges

Do Not Forget The Past Quotes

STOP looking back!!!! When your past calls do NOT pick up!! it has nothing new to say. — Joseph Simmons

If you care to be a master or to make a true success of your profession, the smallest detail of your work must be done with thoroughness. To be thorough in medicine means that in the ever alluring present, we do not forget the past. — David Murray Cowie

Though the past haunt me as a spirit, I do not ask to forget. — Felicia Hemans

Forget the past quote Forget the mistake. Remember the lesson.
Forget the mistake. Remember the lesson.

It is painful to be consciously of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness. I am not afraid to live on and on, if only I do not have to remember too much. A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run. — Mary Antin

Inspirational Forget The Past Quotes

Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present. — Alexander Maclaren

Love alone allows man to forget himself... it alone can still redeem even the darkest hours of the past since it alone finds the courage to believe in the mercy of the holy God. — Karl Rahner

Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully. Then act upon it. — Tony Robbins

Forget the past quote When the past calls, let it go to voicemail. It has nothing new to say.
When the past calls, let it go to voicemail. It has nothing new to say.

For inspiration you go to the archives, you go to things of the past, but you still need to be contemporary for today. You can never forget the time you're living in because the past is the past and it will never come back. — Nicki Minaj

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past — Ken Burns

Forget Your Past Quotes

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. — Johnny Cash

But life isn’t about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It’s about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fill your heart with the creative power to accept the past, decorate the present and transform the future. — Osho

Forget about the past. It does not exist, except in your memory. Drop it. And stop worrying about how you're going to get through tomorrow. Life is going on right here, right now - pay attention to that and all will be well. — Neale Donald Walsch

Let go of your past, but never forget what it has taught you. — Boonaa Mohammed

There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today. — Jonathan Larson

The one charm of the past is that it is the past. — Oscar Wilde

If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want. — Paulo Coelho

Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you. — Sarah Dessen

Today forget your past, forgive yourself and begin again. — Unknown

Leave The Past Behind Quotes

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character. — Isabelle Eberhardt

it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday. — William H. Gass

The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish. — David Trimble

The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad. — Nelson Mandela

The warrior woman is filled with the courage, confidence, and inner strength to leave the past behind. She knows that there is no way to express herself fully when she is still carrying burdens that need to be released. — Debbie Ford

Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Nonsense, Patricia,' I tell her as I climb on board my train. 'The past's what you take with you. — Kate Atkinson

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future. — Jay Weatherill

We cannot go back in time and change the past but we can repent. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

To move foward, you have to leave the past behind — Susannah Cahalan

The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Forget Yesterday Quotes

Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits. — Carl Sandburg

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. — Oscar Wilde

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be. — Studs Terkel

Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on. — Norman Vincent Peale

Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don’t sweat tomorrow - you haven’t even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today. — Steve Maraboli

So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth? Well, that was yesterday. Today is a brand-new day with a clean slate, so forget yesterday! — Abigail Van Buren

We must never forget that today's legendary achievements-awesome as they may seem-were yesterday's risky adventures. Courage is not the capacity never to be afraid; as Karl Barth reminds us, "Courage is fear that has said its prayers." — John Claypool

Yesterday, the Senate voted to approve President Clinton's decision to send troops to Bosnia. And they voted to change the name of that mission to "Operation Forget About Whitewater". — David Letterman

One downside of being an optimist is that optimistic people tend to forget yesterday's trauma in the belief that everything will turn out well. This can keep people in bad relationships because they genuinely believe that things will always improve. — Amy Dickinson

As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner

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More Forget The Past Quotes

We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history. — Ellen G. White

I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future. — Jomo Kenyatta

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past. — David Wilkerson

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are. Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. — Bernard Meltzer

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. — Lewis B. Smedes

The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find. — Edmund Hillary

If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future. — Therese of Lisieux

Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree. — William Morris

Interfaith dialogue is a must today, and the first step in establishing it is forgetting the past, ignoring polemical arguments, and giving precedence to common points, which far outnumber polemical ones. — Fethullah Gulen

Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary. — Norman Vincent Peale

The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future — Ayi Kwei Armah

When we play, we sense no limitations. In fact, when we are playing, we are usually unaware of ourselves. Self-observation goes out the window. We forget all those past lessons of life, forget our potential foolishness, forget ourselves. We immerse ourselves in the act of play. And we become free. — Lenore Terr

Audiences forget facts, but they remember stories. Once you get past the jargon, the corporate world is an endless source of fascinating stories. — Ian P. Griffin

Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we're mad at people, we're angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances. — Marianne Williamson

You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully. — Tony Robbins

True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past. — Nelson Mandela

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely. — Henry A. Wallace

When you smoke marijuana, you are in the moment and you are happy. You forget about any worries of the past or the future. — Tommy Chong

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