Never Be A Prisoner Of Your Past Quotes

#1. Never be a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of you future. You will never be the same.

Robin S. Sharma

#2. I think the only reason I never lost my mind is that I knew I was innocent. That wasn't a happy thought, so the dementors couldn't suck it out of me...but it kept me sane and knowing who I am...helped me keep my powers...

J.K. Rowling

#3. She was prisoner to an old, forgotten god, kept from her home, probably never to see it again, and yet ... the way she sat, poised, calm, clear like a full moon night, she seemed much happier than me, the witch who contained them all, the jailer with the magic key.

Sarah Diemer

#4. So I'm the Darkling's prisoner?"
"You're under his protection."
"What's the difference?"
"Pray you never find out.

Leigh Bardugo

#5. A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence.

John Foxe

#6. Spy

Though at the moment I am a prisoner, my spirit remains free. While everyone is fighting a never-ending battle to see who will survive amid so much bloodshed, I don't need to fight anymore, only wait for people I've never met to decide who I am.

Paulo Coelho

#7. My job is to teach someone something they never knew, but it should not be like you're in a prisoner-of-war camp. I'm supposed to be teaching you but also entertaining you. You're giving me an hour of your time. It should be lively. We're on a hunt, it's a mystery, and it's amazing.

Bonnie Bassler

#8. Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

Henri Matisse

#9. Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.

Kevin O'Leary

#11. I will never forget the moment when I was liberated by the American Army. I will never forget those very young boys coming up the hill, who had to take me a prisoner to liberate me.

Heinrich Boll

#12. I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.

Michel Patini

#13. First doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith. We must never allow doubt to hold us prisoner and keep us from the divine love, peace, and gifts that come through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#14. If one has never known freedom, it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one's cell.

Nenia Campbell

#15. It had never occurred to me that simply being with a fellow prisoner would make me feel like I was still in prison.

Elizabeth Wein

#16. I personally could never come to terms with my label of 'Criminally Insane'. Just because of my violent outbursts in prison, don't mean to say I'm mad. Obviously I had become a disruptive element within the penal system. Uncontrollable! Unpredictable! But that don't make insanity!

Stephen Richards

#17. In the case of Albertine, I felt that I should never discover anything, that, out of that tangled mass of details of fact and falsehood, I should never unravel the truth: and that it would always be so, unless I were to shut her up in prison (but prisoners escape) until the end.

Marcel Proust

#18. I don't have any particular methodology, to tell you the truth. 'Silver Blue' took exactly the amount of time to write that it takes to sing it, and 'Prisoner in Disguise' took about a year and a half. So you just never know.

J. D. Souther

#19. What are you looking at, foreigner?" the guard demanded roughly. The smile was a little unsettling. A prisoner shouldn't smile at his captors like that.
"I'm just making sure I can remember you," Gilan told him. "Never know when that might be useful.

John Flanagan

#20. Never be a good prisoner. Not unless you want to collude in your own imprisonment.

Orna Ross

#21. I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.

Adam Michnik

#22. If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled.

Idries Shah

#23. Unlike most I don't fear prison, never have, never will. Obviously I don't want it, I hate it, but it's the hate that drives me on to survive.

Stephen Richards

#24. An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc

Henri Matisse

#25. I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
But is there because he's a victim of the times.
I wear the black for those who never read

Johnny Cash

#26. A prisoner five years between the shafts never hurries. He knows that what comes next can only be worse.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#27. Phaedra of Alonso's death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage.

Melina Marchetta

#28. When you enter a lake and when the nature wraps you up tightly never letting you go out, you will be the happiest prisoner on earth!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#29. She looked fragile. Alone. Prisoner in the room through the mirror; an Alice who never made it back through the looking-glass.

Joss Stirling

#30. Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.

Wil Zeus

#31. But it is easy to speak of the past, impossible to go there. I am powerful in ways you can only dream, yet I am still a prisoner of what I have done. I can never escape the cell I have made for myself. Things are what they are.

Joe Abercrombie

#32. He proceeded on the theory that confinement within the walls of the prison was punishment. That the law never intended to confine prisoners within the prison. From a moral point of view, it was putting the prisoner in double jeopardy. Actually it was a double punishment.

Lewis E. Lawes