Top 100 Forget Past Quotes
#1. The Original Quote was:- THOSE WHO FORGET PAST MISTAKES ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT THEM... It was never (as other quotes read)- 'those who forget the past are doomed' - why would we forget the past, that quote makes no sense...
Mel Jones
#2. The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.
Jon Meacham
#3. 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
#4. Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.
Ba Jin
#5. You can get past a mistake, but it's much harder to get past being a cruel person.
Jennifer Brown
#6. 'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.
Jules Verne
#7. Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?
Robert M. Pirsig
#8. Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you.
Hiro Mashima
#9. Forget the past, it's gone, but glance back occasionally to remind yourself where you came from and where you are going.
Chloe Thurlow
#10. I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.
Richard Paul Evans
#11. Remember us, Belle," Cyllinus wept, "when the dangers are past and you sit upon the throne in Greenreach. Think of us. Do not forget me, little one.
Robin Jarvis
#12. It annoys her how easily Dana can forget the past.
But it also makes Margo jealous. Because she can't.
Siobhan Vivian
#13. God is more powerful than anybody's past, no matter how wretched. He can make us forget - not by erasing the memory but by taking the sting and paralyzing effect out of it
Jim Cymbala
#14. the resilience they had both displayed, the same stubborn strength that had lifted them out of bad circumstances. Except in Auma I had also sensed a willingness to put the past behind her, a capacity to somehow forgive, if not necessarily forget.
Barack Obama
#15. 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
#16. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
Sara Shepard
#17. Maybe, it is easier to forget the past,
than to overcome the pain caused by it.
Maybe, it is one of some other reasons,
why men forget their prehuman ancestor.
Toba Beta
#18. And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.
Jeffrey Archer
#20. 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 De Lisieux
#21. Perhaps we really are surrounded by the past, made prisoners of it. No matter how far we travel, how hard we try to forget, the scarred tree forever stands by the side of the road, if only in our minds. The only way to drive by is to set the past straight, once and for all, by remembering.
Michael Paterniti
#22. The ghost of a smile appeared on her face. Learn to love the moment you are in. Treasure your experiences, for precious moments too quickly pass you by, and if you are always rushing toward the future, or pining for the past, you will forget to enjoy and appreciate the present.
Colleen Houck
#23. 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
#25. If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.
Flannery O'Connor
#26. Yesterday does not equal tomorrow. Forget the past and move towards your goals.
Tony Robbins
#27. We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all as a people, as citizens, as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction.
Atifete Jahjaga
#29. 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
#30. He kissed me. A desperate, hungry, wild, make me forget the past and the future kind of kiss.
R.K. Lilley
#31. It is our ability to forget our problems, through the process of thought, rather than the passage of time, that frees us from the circumstances of our past.
Richard Carlson
#32. Man ... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#35. 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
#36. My way of thinking is to create a situation where we rally everyone together and create peace and pardon people, to not forget about the past - because we need to learn from it - but to mainly think about the future.
Michel Martelly
#37. She didn't want to forget how deeply she had loved him, how important it had been to her; she felt as if to discard the memory would be a betrayal of her younger self.
Harriet Evans
#38. Remember the past and work for the future...
But never forget to live today!
Carlo Jose San Juan
#39. There's always an open door. Forget the past and walk through.
Mary Jane
#40. Forget all your sorrow, don't live in the past, and look to the future because life goes too fast, you know - it's a hard road.
Geezer Butler
#41. 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
#42. So you try, and try, to move past it and forget about them, but it's like they're stuck in your head
you can't just flip a switch and stop loving them! So you hate yourself for it because you know it's no use, but nothing you do seems to ever make a difference.
Abby McDonald
#43. Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised.
Steve Aylett
#44. After all the events that caused you tears,here comes the new ones that will bring you cheer;forget the past,the future is here.happy new year
Blasio Kajuna
#45. I would have thought,"he went on,"that by now you would have gotten past not being able to trust anyone, Maryse."
"Some things you never forget," she said.
Cassandra Clare
#46. Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.
Nicole Kidman
#47. Something broke in me that night. It has stopped being a game and is now a reality. The Burn List is the only way I know to escape my past, my means to forget.
It's simple; I want revenge.
Calia Read
#48. South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting.
Nelson Mandela
#49. 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 Dostoyevsky
#50. I'm amazed by just constantly - there's not a week that goes past where there's not someone in Ulan Bator or Rio De Janeiro suddenly says, 'Ooh, 'Downton' started this week.' You completely forget it's staggered across the world.
Dan Stevens
#52. Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.
Sivananda
#54. Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.
Slobodan Milosevic
#55. Forget the past, let the dead bury the dead. Things were working out fine, and that was the only thing he had to remember.
Robert Bloch
#56. 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
#58. You are only happy in life if you forget the bad things and focus on the good things
Jeroen Saey
#59. Do not forget the past; forgive the past.
John Irving
#60. Perfection lies in fullness of journey. For this reason, never think you have arrived. Forget what lies behind you, reach out for what lies before you. Through the very change in which you lose what you have snatched up you will at last be transformed into what you crave for with such longing.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#61. Forget everything you've done. Start over.
Marty Rubin
#62. A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
Douglas Coupland
#64. I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights.
Jenim Dibie
#65. When violet eyes get brighter
And heavy wings grow lighter
I'll taste the sky and feel alive again
And I'll forget the world that I knew
But I swear I won't forget you
Oh if my voice could reach back through the past
I'd whisper in your ear:
Oh darling I wish you were here.
Owl City
#66. Sometimes, Johan ... " He offered a self-deprecating grin. "It would be easier to forget the past." I understood, although I didn't know that he knew that. "Sometimes ... but without the past we wouldn't be who we are.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#67. People so easily forget their past selves.
Henrik Ibsen
#68. I yearn to make these scars disappear
And to forget about the past.
To throw away all of my fears
And to be happy at last.
Atarah L. Poling
#69. 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
#70. what has happened is out of your and my control, we can't change that ever, but what we can do is forget. The worse things of past and accept your present with its purity and its real shine, remember my friend this is the only way you can live happily
Pritesh Bhosale
#71. Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet ... it's so hard to let them go ... to forget ... to move ahead ...
Danielle Steel
#72. Forget the past. Decide who you are today. Discover who you will be tomorrow.
Emily March
#73. But I keep the kid in my heart, you know, and once in a while she gets out. It's a writer thing. The past is material. You never want to forget it, how it was, how it felt. Nurse
Dean Koontz
#74. First the flame and then the flood:
In the end it's Blackthorn blood.
Seek thou to forget what's past
First thirteen and then the last.
Search not the book of angels gray,
Red or white will lead you far astray.
To regain what you have lost,
Find the black book at any cost.
Cassandra Clare
#75. The past can hold a weak man down like an anchor. It takes a strong man to remember the past, but forgive. Forgive and forget. Taking the first step forward is difficult. But take it. Save a backward glance for the times when you're uncertain, just to make sure your past is where it belongs,
Scott Hildreth
#76. Most people can't wait to leave kidhood behind. But I keep the kid in my heart, you know, and once in a while she gets out. It's a writer thing. The past is material. You never want to forget it, how it was, how it felt.
Dean Koontz
#77. She must continue to live life one day at a time. Neither the past nor the future existed for Eva.
She clenched her fist around her reins, drilling in the words she must never forget: 'there can only be the now.
Amy Jarecki
#78. 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
#79. You can forget the past, but something should be left in your mine to not forget yourself.
Ali Rezavand Zayeri
#80. It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths.
Herbert J. Muller
#81. But ghosts aren't what you think they are. Ghosts are just the past, refusing to go away, making sure we never forget.
Christopher Sword
#82. You find new love not to forget the past love. But you forget the past because of that new love.
Ayaka
#83. Rituals keep us from forgetting what must not be forgotten and keep us rooted in a past from which we must not be disconnected.
Tony Campolo
#84. 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
#85. The robbers of time are the past and the future. Man should bless the past, and forget it, if it keeps him in bondage, and bless the future, knowing it has in store for him endless joys, but live fully in the now.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#86. But God has also given us the power to forget, so that when the tragedy is over we carry on as normal.
Malala Yousafzai
#87. 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
#88. Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past - not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.
Desmond Tutu
#89. Remembering to forget the past allows you freedom from a past that holds back your Christian growth.
Elizabeth George
#90. You don't have to forget the past to start enjoying the present.
Kentaro Yabuki
#91. Don't dwell too much on the past. The lessons are useful for the present and a preparation for the future. Move on!
Lailah Gifty Akita
#92. Bitterness does not pay. Certain things have happened to all of us in the past and it is for us to forget those and to look to the future.
Susan Williams
#93. 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
#94. For someone bent on achievement, education is a thing you get past and forget about as quickly as possible.
Daniel Quinn
#96. Philosophers have warned us: if we forget the past, we are doomed to repeat it.
Ira Levin
#97. 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
#98. We all know what weight sits on our souls, and no one is expected to ever forget the past - only to let it be past and focus on the present,
J.M. Sidorova
#99. Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife. Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life. But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways, We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days. Hearts full of youth, Hearts full of truth, Six parts gin to one part vermouth.
Tom Lehrer
#100. Forget your past,
Use your pain;
Accept that pain,
And Achieve the gain.
Nitesh Nishad
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