Top 100 Quotes About Lessons Past
#1. Life has let me down several times, that I have learnt to cope with my pain in different situations while at the same time, learning through comparing my past problems and the current obstacles am facing.
Auliq Ice
#2. You must befriend a few skeletons before you'll find your deepest self.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#3. 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
#4. I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significant lessons, or significantly improve, any other way.
Bob Parsons
#5. 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
#6. learn the lessons before they are over. Life is a composition of series and sequence of lessons. Each lesson comes with its own lessons to learn. our failure to learn the lessons of one shall be the reasons to learn another lesson with similar lessons.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#7. 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
#8. I openly talk about my past because we should embrace our mistakes and our dark times, because without them we'd never have the lessons and the light.
Kathryn Perez
#9. There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.
Jim Barksdale
#10. The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Spiro T. Agnew
#11. Children, Never look Back! and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.
Milan Kundera
#12. One can get past just about anything, given enough time, even when one shouldn't.
Andrew Levkoff
#13. I think it is vitally important to study History. If we are going to lead Britain safely into the future, it is essential that we understand our country's historical roots. If we can learn the lessons of the past, we will be able to avoid making mistakes in the future.
Tony Blair
#15. Appreciate the lessons of the past and enjoy the newness of the future, yet remember the present is today.
Annette Thomas
#16. Those who neglect the lessons of their past are doomed to no future.
T.A. Uner
#17. The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change ...
Malcolm Fraser
#18. That's one benefit of travelling to your own future, and making the trip part of your past.
James A. Owen
#20. your Life is cover by only one word 'IS', everything else is Just Unnecessary Happening By Your Mind.
Sushil Singh
#21. Love doesn't hurt, love doesn't cut, and in dark times love doesn't cease.
Love heals, love seals, it drains out the world and leaves you with peace.
Palle Oswald
#22. History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.
Henry Clausen
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. In order to move forward, we cannot allow ourselves to forever dwell in the past.
Vivian Eve
#26. 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
#27. The repulsive actions of the person who abused you do not identify you.
Tanya R. Liverman
#28. We are here not to make something of ourselves. We are here to Be ourselves.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#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. 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
#31. But this was the present moment - the party the camel driver had mentioned - and he wanted to live it as he did the lessons of his past and his dreams of the future.
Paulo Coelho
#32. Take care not to welcome today the terrors that will make yesterday's demons look like angels.
Joyce Rachelle
#33. 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
#34. It should be some kind of goal to be absolutely clear about your past experiences and have let them all go and accepted them in full.
Auliq Ice
#35. I am not the #Prisoner of my #Past neither the #Slave for my #Future !!
Tushar Upreti
#36. 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
#37. The past is your LESSON. The present is your GIFT. The future is your MOTIVATION.
Zig Ziglar
#38. I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.
Kalpana Chawla
#39. Pause and remember - The past is over and it cannot be changed, fixed or undone by continuing to think about it. The quicker we can get over our mistakes, understand the lessons and move forward, the healthier we become to ourselves and everyone around us!
Jennifer Young
#40. I'm grateful for past betrayals, heartaches, and challenges ... I thought they were breaking me; but they were sculpting me.
Steve Maraboli
#41. You don't need to go over every detail of your past, but if something comes up, face it and process those feelings, get to the core belief, so you can shift it.
Sheri Kaye Hoff
#42. If I've learned anything in the past six months, it's that life is a fickle little bitch and there's not one damn thing I can do to tame her. It's almost laughable, really.
Ashley Herring Blake
#43. For the first forty days a child
is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths,
a hundred small lessons
and then the past is erased.
Michael Ondaatje
#44. I'm not mad. I already told you that. We all have mistakes in our past ... and our future. It's a fact of life.
Shannon A. Thompson
#46. You can't move beyond your past if you keep talking about it like it's your present.
Kemi Sogunle
#47. Mamma says if we stay so focused on our past failings, we won't be able to move beyond them and learn what we need to know.
Annette Bridges
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. If you were to take the lessons and experiences you've acquired in the past one year, five years or 10 years and skillfully invest that into your future, how powerful would that be? Where would you find yourself at the end of the next year?
Jim Rohn
#51. Let us march past the flag of the past, saluting our achievements', pondering over our mistakes and thinking of the lessons for the way forward as we march forward to a great tomorrow
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#52. The moral of the story is even though that seemed like the end of the world back then, right now I can look back on it and laugh. And if anyone is going through something similar right now just know it will get better.
Phil Lester
#53. All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend.
William James
#54. The story of your past doesn't have to become the story of your life.
Luminita D. Saviuc
#55. You'll never get to the happily ever after if you don't move past the current chapter ...
Carmen DeSousa
#56. 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
#57. If you live everyday, with the capacity to stretch yourself past limitation and structure, you will find boundless opportunity is all the places that once scared you.
Nikki Rowe
#58. 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
#59. The past is called the past for a reason. If you are constantly looking behind you, your eyes aren't on the road ahead. You don't drive the car that way, so why should you live your life that way?
Rachel Van Dyken
#60. Past misdeeds must only serve as a reference point in calm conversation about lessons learned or actions that taught us to behave better. They should never be bantered about with sarcasm, anger, or nastiness.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#61. Your past is your story. Your story is your most powerful asset. Embrace it.
Sarah Centrella
#62. When you dive into your past, remember to go back up quickly.
Samer Chidiac
#63. When I look at efforts to create change in big companies over the past 10 years, I have to say that there's enough evidence of success to say that change is possible - and enough evidence of failure to say that it isn't likely. Both of those lessons are important.
Peter Senge
#64. Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.
Cheikh Anta Diop
#65. Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You ... Be Free ... Share.
Steve Maraboli
#66. It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.
Jim Butcher
#67. He wanted to leave the past a few hundred miles down the road, shake it off like dust. But that ws the problem with the past. It kept finding him.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#68. I receive the blessing of past dates, the lessons and the joy, and let the rest go now for all time.
Amy Leigh Mercree
#69. I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
Douglas MacArthur
#70. Everything we come across becomes a part of us. It doesn't matter how small or insignificant it is ... or how devastating. One story here, one story there, that's what I see when I look back at my life. An accumulation of everything I went through.
Bhaskaryya Deka
#71. For an animal, the past is largely a waste of precious resources, since it gives them little evolutionary advantage. But simulating the future, given the lessons of the past, is an essential reason why humans became intelligent.
Michio Kaku
#72. First, I look at history the way I look at evolution. Some things die out for a good reason, and should be left dead. I put dictatorships and velociraptors in the same category: leave them in the past, where they can serve as frightening object lessons for the present.
Holly Lisle
#73. the ultimate determinant of my life has got nothing to do with neither my past nor my present but my aspirations, my tenacity to dare and to do; to leave a great and an indelible positive footprints on earth
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#74. I fear that we live in an ahistorical age in which we believe that we are so wise that we no longer need the lessons of the past, perhaps most disturbingly of all that technology has put us beyond the lessons of the past.
J. Rufus Fears
#75. 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
#76. It was always something what we did or said, and there would be this flash, and then it didn't subside. all your past sins would be brought up, it was just endless. and my mother attributed it sometimes to having neuralgia, but she never showed that outwardly
Alice Schroeder
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. You can't start changing things in your past. Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them. I certainly wouldn't be who I am.
Sean Combs
#80. In my view, Asian countries have learnt the lessons from the past and significantly enhanced their capabilities to fend off risks.
Li Keqiang
#82. There are times when the way has to pass through sufferings to cleanse ourselves from the burden of the past.
Shashi
#83. Echoes of my past will always have a low frequency vibration in my present lest I forget the road travelled to reach the enjoyment of today.
Truth Devour
#85. Anyway, that's the past, and what matters is the future. That's how life works, because it's short and precious and kind of doubtful.
Terry Brooks
#86. From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
John Quincy Adams
#87. Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!
Stephen Richards
#88. Your true self can never be found within anyone else, and it cannot be found in the hardships that life has thrust on you in the past.
Kat Von D.
#89. 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
#90. I've learned to appreciate what I've got. I'm not going to waste an ounce of energy on sorting through the past or with worrying about the future. Life's too short for that.
Chris Coppernoll
#91. Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#92. Everything happens for a reason. Failure is not an excuse to live in the past, to stay stuck in one place. Everyone has a chance to turn regret into a lesson. Turn lessons into growth. And be successful.
Nia Arthurs
#93. The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.
Hun Sen
#94. We want to remember the lessons of our past because they have a lot to teach us. That way, we can avoid the mistakes and fools of our past. Forgiving is not the same as condoning or approving.
Jessica N. Watkins
#95. We believe in the good old days; we believe our best is in the past. Our past is our memories, our past is our learnings, our past should stay where it is. And we should let it.
Tony Curl
#96. So many people from my past taught me that it's not everyone that's in my life wants to see me achieve my goals and be great, but I thank God they're no longer in my life because I moved on a long time ago, welcome to my present.
Werley Nortreus
#97. 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
#98. Your past is always useful to you: If you are happy with your past, you get power from it; if you are unhappy with your past, you take lesson from it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#99. The lessons of past is critical for teachings in present. And experience in the future.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#100. 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
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