Past Choices Quotes

#1. Who you are today is the outcome of the choices you have made in the past. Choices that you will make today, will shape your future.

Vishwas Chavan

#2. Don't project his mistakes from the past onto him now. Don't let past choices define present actions.

Nicole Williams

#3. Your current conditions are echoes of your past choices.

Robin Sharma

#4. Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.

Barbara Kingsolver

#5. People screw up. People screw up a lot. We allow our own selfishness to overpower us at times. It happens. But you can't allow that to tear you down. You can't keep dwelling on your past choices, and your past actions, or else you'll never learn from them.

Nicole Sobon

#6. The good news is that every morning we have the choice; not to be controlled by circumstances nor our past but by purposely designing our day, hence our lives better. Not to react to life but to respond with love.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#7. Just because we've made poor or wrong choices in the past, does not limit us from making wise and good choices now.

Toni Sorenson

#8. The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it.

Susan Meissner

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. My past is my shadow, it follows me everywhere I go. Well, all those things come from when I had no other choice. They put my back against the wall. I do what I gotta do.

Curtis Jackson

#12. Over the past decades, students who have blindly followed their passion, without rational analysis of whether their choice of career truly was wise, have been more unhappy with their job choices than those who coupled passion with rationality.

Barbara Oakley

#13. The inseparable bond between past and future is the cause and effect of our collective beliefs and the choices influenced by them.

Matthew A. Petti

#14. Live today. Let go of your attachment to your past as an excuse for your life conditions today. You are the product of the choices you are making right now.

Wayne Dyer

#15. The biggest challenge for newspapers has been that the public has far more choices for news, information, and diversion than in the past.

Robert G. Picard

#16. Sometimes, choices you've made in the past limit the choices you have today.

Bella Forrest

#17. Character, past, and environment all affect the choices we make. The trick is choosing a path and following it. Make a decision, and don't turn back.

Amanda Bouchet

#18. Attachment to the past and fears concerning the future not only govern the way you select the things you own but also represent the criteria by which you make choices in every aspect of your life, including your relationships with people and your job.

Marie Kondo

#19. For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money.

Lizzy Caplan

#20. Past age fifty-five, I experienced the advancement of exquisite fabric choices, paint distinctions that were celestial in scope, yet so many other man-made objects, such as people, became drab, redundant and boring.

Carol A. Elliott

#21. Every intentional thought, word, or deed-right now and in your past-it all makes you what you are today. Your choices, not your neighbor's or your wife's or you boyfriend's-your decisions determine your karma.

Lucie Smoker

#22. At another level, though, poems can craft an eraser - we can't revise the past, but poems allow us some malleability, an increased freedom of response, comprehension, feeling. Choice, what choices are possible for any given person, is another theme that's run through my work from the start.

Jane Hirshfield

#23. One should learn the lessons of history. The mistakes of the past need only be made once. Unless there are no other choices. ~ Bayaz

Joe Abercrombie

#24. Do not regret too much of the choices you have made in the past, only make the right ones in the future. We are ever capable of change and ever cable of being our better selves.

Cassandra Clare

#25. You are what you are today because of the choices you made in the past

Jim Rohn

#26. At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will left at all.

Helen McCloy

#27. Do not regret too much the choices you have made in the past, Gabriel," she said, aware that she was using his Christian name, but not able to help it. "Only make the right ones in the future. We are ever capable of change and ever capable of being our better selves.

Cassandra Clare

#28. There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices ... But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence?

Libba Bray

#29. We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

Carl Levin

#30. There are two ways to respond to the trials and tribulations of our present and past ... 'Ain't it awful?' ... or ... 'Good information!' Our choice of responses will determine our experience of life.

Bill Crawford

#31. Shunning the bureaucratic levers of the past and finding intelligent ways to encourage, support and enable people to make better choices for themselves.'1 Whatever

Owain Service

#32. Guy Lafleur said "Each of us has only one past but there are many futures".

Billy Graham

#33. The choices you've made in the past are the direct cause of all your unhappiness today.

Harold Klemp

#34. Asking ourselves, 'Where am I right now?' gives us a chance to step outside the internal dialogue for a moment of peace. Look around you, take a deep breath and notice what you see, hear and feel. Present moment awareness is the point of power and choice. It frees us from our compulsive thoughts.

Laura Harvey

#35. The bookcase was filled with computer games, history books, and sci-fi novels in about equal proportions. Odd reading choices, maybe, but I just thought of it as past and future history.

Mike Mullin

#36. Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by programming from the past.

T. Harv Eker

#37. We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it ...

P. J. O'Rourke

#38. you can't unchoose anyone's choices, least of all your own. All you can do with your past is try to grow out of it. Darren

Kevin Hearne

#39. The process of facing and selecting our possessions can be quite painful. It forces us to confront our imperfections and inadequacies and the foolish choices we made in the past.

Marie Kondo

#40. Our future experiences will be colored by the choices we make in the present.

Noah Levine

#41. I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.

Minnie Driver

#42. To protect our country's economic future and the health and well being of all Americans, we must find a way to rein in out-of-control costs, provide quality, affordable health care choices to all, and make outrageous insurance industry abuses a thing of the past.

Michael Bennet

#43. But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.

Libba Bray

#44. When I am up in Paris then the restaurant which has remained my favourite for the past decade is Guy Savoy. The menu is huge, sophisticated and very creative but I keep to simple choices.

Jean Reno

#45. The story of your past doesn't have to become the story of your life.

Luminita D. Saviuc

#46. Live in the present, or die in your past; it's your choice.

Bryant McGill

#47. It's not love that the past needs in order to survive, it's an absence of choices.

Susan Sontag

#48. You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here.

Sarah Addison Allen

#49. We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future.

A.J. Darkholme

#50. What you did in the past is your business. Those were your choices - your mistakes - if you even believe they were mistakes. Stop caring what anyone thinks and live your life the way you want to live it.

Laura Wright

#51. TODAY is the PAST of your FUTURE. So, make TODAY count for the sake of your HISTORY. Use your words, time & choices wisely

Fela Durotoye

#52. You are more than the choices that you've made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,
You've been remade.

Tenth Avenue North

#53. Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you've made in the past.

Deepak Chopra

#54. Nuclear power and fossil fuels are the choices of the past. Renewable energy is the choice of the future that is here today.

Hermann Scheer

#55. The joyful news for anyone who desires to be rid of the consequences of past poor choices is that the Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion. Whereas the Lord warns that unrepented rebellion will bring punishment, when the Lord speaks of weaknesses, it is always with mercy.

Richard G. Scott

#56. Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

Elvis Costello

#57. When you forgive those that hurt you, they no longer have control over your future happiness. Their anger keeps them a prisoner to your past, while you enjoy the present.

Shannon L. Alder

#58. We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Learned Hand

#59. Get past all the emotions that come along with the experience and get to the important stuff. Recognize what it is that you want, put a game plan together and take those steps to making a quality choice.

Billy Kennedy

#60. Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.

Ben Bernanke

#61. Today, I will try to remember to regret the past. I will think of how many mistakes I have made throughout my life. I will say to myself, "If only I could go back in time and make different choices, so that my life could be the way it should have been." Then I will remind myself that I cannot.

John S. Hall

#62. That's one benefit of travelling to your own future, and making the trip part of your past.

James A. Owen

#63. Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.

Wayne Dyer

#64. It is by no means your past that determines or dictates your present or your future; it is what you think and what you say, which then results in what you feel and what you do.

Miya Yamanouchi

#65. no matter how many wrong choices we've made in the past, we can always decide to make the right ones today. The past need not determine one moment of the future. The

Lisa Wingate

#66. Reality isn't a vast, fixed scheme trapping you without choice. At any moment you have the choice to break out of what is really trapping you-your automatic reactions dredged up from the past.

Deepak Chopra

#67. If you have to make a daily choice to be in a relationship then you are married to the past, not the person.

Shannon L. Alder

#68. We're more than just the history of our soul. More than our DNA. More than our past lives. We're the choices we've made in this life. Every one of them, giving us purpose.

Megan Miranda

#69. choices are based upon expected utility. And once you have had experience with particular restaurants, CDs, or movies, future choices will be based upon what you remember about these past experiences, in other words, on their remembered utility.

Barry Schwartz

#70. My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action.

Shannon L. Alder

#71. He built the Empire, yet he was also the principal in its destruction. A great man, in so many ways, but great men have great faults ... One should learn the lessons of history. The mistakes of the past need only be made once ... Unless there are no other choices.

Joe Abercrombie

#72. You can't change your past but you can change you destiny but deciding for Christ.

Billy Graham

#73. The voters of Brookhaven Town made a clear choice to turn away from the corruption and problems of the past, .. I will end corruption in Town Hall once and for all. I've been fighting for this all my life.

Bill Vaughan

#74. In love one cannot be mediocre, nor can one sustain love without work. The choices in the past were not enough, and it was necessary to choose again.

Simone Troisi

#75. As her husband held her close, she could feel the pulse of other choices, other lives, opening up beneath her. Her past crackled behind her like a terrible lightning, branches and branches, endless, and then nothing.

Dan Chaon

#76. L I V E or E V I L
to Live life is to spell forward. To not live life is to spell backwards.

Shannon L. Alder

#77. We're making decisions right now that shape our lives. Even indecision is a decision. What's going on today is a result of the choices we've made in the past.

Toni Sorenson

#78. If we want a new future that does not look like our past, we must make new choices in the present.

Debbie Ford