Lessons From The Past Quotes

#1. It's important to learn the right lessons from the past.

Douglas Alexander

#2. The past ignorance has great lessons for us in our present day. Until we take real lessons from the past ignorance which led us into our present situation, we shall always see shadows of the past in the present.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#3. We all want to be honest and draw lessons from the past, the WHO is the only international organization that has universal political legitimacy on global health issues. This is why it's so important to render its structures more efficient.

Angela Merkel

#4. Learn from the past,
log the lessons from the past, but
leave the past!

Elizabeth George

#5. People should draw lessons from the past, but those who look constantly behind themselves will get nothing more than a sore neck and a good view of their backsides

Aaron Fletcher

#6. The American government must finally learn lessons from the past.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#7. Lessons from the past create hope for the future and action in the present.

Orrin Woodward

#8. We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#9. A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

Sydney J. Harris

#10. In my view, Asian countries have learnt the lessons from the past and significantly enhanced their capabilities to fend off risks.

Li Keqiang

#11. Knowingly or unknowingly, our past disappointments guide us positively and or negatively in our present day journey of life, based on how we see and use the lessons from our past!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#12. You can run from the past, but it always catches up with you.

Debbi Mack

#13. Through my writing, I learned my Life Lessons from all the experiences in my past, good and bad. Letting go of the drama we create for ourselves is the biggest gift we can ever receive.

KoKo Nervelli

#14. The prime minister did not wholly believe in the past or in any lessons that might be drawn from it.

Alan Bennett

#15. Will this generation be able to turn things around and learn a valuable lesson from all of this? I hope so, but I have my doubts. The damage has been done. And as a lifelong student of history, it's quite evident that human beings don't learn from the mistakes of past generations.

Aaron B. Powell

#16. Sometimes you can't prevent things from happening, and once they're done, you can't change the past. There is a way to deal with the pain, though, because you always control your response. You cry, if you need to. You hurt for a while. But then you look for a way to make a difference.

Carlene O'Neil

#17. 9Among the many lessons that merge from the geologic record, perhaps the most sobering is that in life, as in mutual funds, past performance is no guarantee of future results.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#18. When we look at these types of things it echoes to lessons we haven't learned from the past. We still don't see Rome as a negative thing; we glorify the Roman Empire. It was a fascist state under the control of an incredibly authoritarian militant pre-emptive striking genocidal regime.

Immortal Technique

#19. I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee crises - and witnessing how people were affected by dire situations. When I find a story from the past, I bring some of those lessons to bear on the narrative.

Geraldine Brooks

#20. In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from beginning to end, with all possible outcomes of every life woven through the tapestry, there is no chance, only choice, no luck, but only consequences.

Dean Koontz

#21. The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

Mignon McLaughlin

#22. Well, he thought, dwelling on past failures once you'd learned all there was to learn was just heaping futility on failure.

Raymond E. Feist

#23. The pain you endure today will lead to a better tomorrow. Don't dwell so much on the pain but focus on the lessons learned. There in lies your strength to rise above all odds. Your best is yet to come.

Kemi Sogunle

#24. Do not be ready to listen to anyone who is ready to show you your past mistakes instead, be ready to listen to someone who is ready to show you the untold lessons from your past mistakes so that you may be able to skip your future mistakes

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#25. Modern armies are obsessed with the military learning cycle, of learning from past 'best practice' and mistakes. The problem is which part of the past provides the lessons.

Michael Burleigh

#26. And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

Steve Case

#27. Take care not to welcome today the terrors that will make yesterday's demons look like angels.

Joyce Rachelle

#28. Ruminating about the past will get you nowhere. So go ahead and learn from the past whatever you can, and then put it behind you. Remember, there is nothing you can do to change it, but you can use its lessons to improve your future.

Abraham J. Twerski

#29. For our past can be a prison we are locked in permanently, or it can be the key to our freedom if we glean the lessons from it and deal with it directly.

Kevin Powell

#30. But the amazing thing about life, I've finally discovered, is that you really don't learn from past mistakes. You do logically, reasonably, but emotionally not for a second.

Lauren Bacall

#31. What has been seen cannot be unseen, what has been learned cannot be unknown. You cannot change the past, but you can learn from it. You can grow from it. You can be made stronger. You can use that strength to change your life, to change your future.

C.A. Woolf

#32. The fact that Newton and Michael Faraday and other scientists of the past were deeply religious shows that religious skepticism is not a prejudice that governed science from the beginning, but a lesson that has been learned through centuries of experience in the study of nature.

Steven Weinberg

#33. The past will only catch you, if you ran from it to begin with.

Nikki Rowe

#34. I guess I can call myself a pragmatist with a conservative perspective. It would be hard for me to explain this, but I always take realities of today, lessons from the distant and recent past into consideration.

Vladimir Putin

#35. That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.

Bartlett Sher

#36. The past doesn't define you, your present does. It's okay to create a vision of the future because it affects your behavior in the "now," but don't dwell on past mistakes. Learn from them and focus those lessons in the moment. That's where change can really happen.

Jillian Michaels

#37. Unraveling life lessons from just the past few years would take many more years. Lessons unlearned would pass with me, when I went through that door, to be completed in some future lifetime.

Laurie Nadel

#38. The past is a tricky thing and we let it define us when we should embrace the here and now, and all that's still coming. You need to let yourself live from a place of love, not from a place of fear over the things you can't control.

Jennifer Farwell

#39. Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.

Cheikh Anta Diop

#40. We have all examined our past critically and are very much aware of even the unpleasant things. Now, we need to look at what we plan to do with the lessons we have learned from the past.

Heinz Fischer

#41. We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

George Washington

#42. At the end of the day, what matters most is not what tore you apart but the love than binds and heals your heart.

Kemi Sogunle

#43. We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#44. You NEED to look back to remember the awesome memories, to remember the positive lessons you have learned, to help someone else learn from what you have lived and to see how far you have come.

Tanya Masse

#45. From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

John Quincy Adams

#46. Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

Dale Turner

#47. There are times when the way has to pass through sufferings to cleanse ourselves from the burden of the past.

Shashi

#48. I learned from my past, and I now employ those lessons going forward, looking to the future - don't you think it's about time our government did, too?

Ian Somerhalder

#49. Mistakes from the past can never be repaired. Do your best in the present, to be a good person in the future.

Sylvia L'Namira