Top 100 Quotes About Past Success
#1. The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.
Michael Mandelbaum
#2. In my experience, in the real-estate business past success stories are generally not applicable to new situations. We must continually reinvent ourselves, responding to changing times with innovative new business models.
Akira Mori
#3. So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.
Brian Wilson
#5. We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.
Satya Nadella
#6. I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
Gavin Rossdale
#7. I'm a long-time fan of Rob Long, and his books are hugely re-readable, detailing the ins and outs of being a Hollywood comedy writer with a past success but with everything to prove.
Danny Wallace
#8. Never rest on past success. Create something better.
Ron Kaufman
#9. Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.
Ian Ziering
#11. Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and setting broad strategy.
Robert Dallek
#12. If you continue doing what you have done in the past, you will get what you have received in the past.
Avinash Narula
#13. The preachers of past failures are the detractors of the success of the present and jeopardizers of the future
ABC
#14. 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
#15. Friends, family, school, work, love, hate, past, present, future, success, disappointment ... everything has its place on the scale. And without the lows, even those deep, dark, heartbreak-style lows, you can never appreciate how truly amazing the highs can be.
Love Maia
#16. When you don't have a vision or a plan for the future, your mind has no choice but to dwell in the past.
Steve Maraboli
#17. To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
Charles J. Givens
#18. The fact that you made worse decisions in the past shouldn't be an excuse to make bad decisions in the present.
Sanhita Baruah
#19. Whether you attribute it to some mysterious triple package or to your own Horatio Alger story, to succeed in America is, somehow, to be complicit with the idea of America - which means that at some level you've made peace with its rather ugly past.
Vijay Iyer
#20. Our mind takes an inventory of past events and uses them to project the probability of success in the future. Depending on the information it gathers, we either move forward - or the
fear response is triggered and forward progress is circumvented. Page 48
Nick Ortner
#21. 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
#22. Back 20 years ago, there was a division between movie actors and TV actors. That's kind of gone away. People who have had a lot of success in movies in the past now want to be on TV. There used to be much more of a quality division between TV and movies, and that's kind of not the case anymore.
Michael Imperioli
#23. Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.
Queen Latifah
#24. You can't figure out what to do in the future by looking at how you did things in the past
Roger Lewin
#25. because the belief system has no doubt led to success in the past, so it will fight back with many varieties of self-fulfilling prophecies.
Mary Poppendieck
#26. Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift.
Oprah Winfrey
#27. Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day.
Sumantra Ghoshal
#28. I have become increasingly convinced that the past records of mutual fund managers are essentially worthless in predicting future success. The few examples of consistently superior performance occur no more frequently than can be expected by chance.
Burton Malkiel
#29. Success is not an outcome of coincidence, but rather the tangible result of choice: Comfort or ambition; fleeting pleasure or lasting fulfillment; walking past the open gate, or walking through it.
Evan W. Dorren
#30. History narrates stories about great men from the past,write your story now and make history
Mohammed Sekouty
#31. The decision you will take today has the power to redefine your past and redesign your future.
Mayank S. Sengar
#32. 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
#33. Independence has been key to the success and sustained growth of electronic music over the past 25 years.
Richie Hawtin
#34. Small actions are at the heart of kaizen. By taking steps so tiny that they seem trivial or even laughable, you'll sail calmly past obstacles that have defeated you before. Slowly - but painlessly! - you'll cultivate an appetite for continued success and lay down a permanent new route to change.
Robert D. Maurer
#35. 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
#36. Footsteps of success,
are trailed by fading footprints,
of failures past..
J. Benson
#37. Any blunder committed in the past opens the avenue for the success of the future. However, the success of the future massively is fueled by the how positively the mistakes of the past are handled!
Israelmore Ayivor
#38. I don't want to be involved with an actor because I know how they are. I've had problems in the past being with guys who haven't had any success or haven't made as much money, and it's very uncomfortable.
Kaley Cuoco
#39. You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Denis Waitley
#40. When every minute of your day is planned & you are packed for days,
you shall soon realize that the pain of past fades, vision of life gets
clearer and all that seemed to poison your life Ceases to exist.
Sujit Lalwani
#41. Whatever made you successful in the past won't in future.
Lewis E. Platt
#42. One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.
Bill Crawford
#43. This is your life. This is your moment. Think of all you have been through just to get here ... MAKE IT COUNT!
Steve Maraboli
#44. I congratulate you both on a fine piece of work which I am sure will ultimately prove of importance. I am personally very much interested in your results ... In the past I have tried a number of experiments ... but without any success.
Ernest Rutherford
#45. Victory is not possible, if one doesn't learn from the past and mistakes made.
Auliq Ice
#46. Most of us pretend, with greater or lesser success, that the minute we live in is something we can share. But the past for every one of us is a desert island.
Gregory David Roberts
#47. All the next day the pleasure of his success lingers in Werner's blood, the memory of how it seemed almost holy to him to walk beside big Volkheimer back to the castle, down through the frozen trees, past the rooms of sleeping boys ranked like gold bars in strongrooms...
Anthony Doerr
#48. We now face the danger, which in the past has been the most destructive to thehumans: Success, plenty, comfort and ever-increasing leisure. No dynamic peoplehas ever survived these dangers.
John Steinbeck
#49. Running a marathon with a backpack is tough and may hinder you from winning the race. Don't let the baggage from your past - heavy with fear, guilt, and anger - slow you down.
Maddy Malhotra
#50. By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
John Acton
#51. I shall not dwell in the past ...
I shall not dread the present ...
I shall not fear the Future ...
For as Long as I live ...
I shall only think of success.
Oscar Trejo Jr.
#52. Moving forward is not based upon your past; your future is exclusively determined by the decisions you make now, in this moment.
Mike Michalowicz
#53. We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.
Derek Jeter
#54. If you aim to be the best then it's essential to evolve constantly, learn from past mistakes, look for new opportunities and have the flexibility to implement improved processes and solutions along the way.
Mark Gallagher
#55. We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.
Jerry Garcia
#56. Past performance is no guarantee of future success.
Seth Godin
#57. Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.
Mark Spitz
#58. You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future
Zig Ziglar
#59. The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past.
Brian Tracy
#60. The past is not an excuse, it's a REASON
K.C. Rhoads
#62. Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
Stephen Covey
#63. 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
#64. Peacefully and lovingly accepting who we are today requires honestly looking at our past.
Rob Martin
#65. Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.
Elizabeth Taylor
#66. Learn to make each day count. Look at your past with thankfulness at what it taught you, and with pride at what success it gave you. Visualize your future with amazement at what you can become. Enjoy your present, knowing that it is a result of your past, and a springboard for your future success.
Jonny Bell
#67. 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
#68. You cannot control the past but you have control over the life you build going forward.
Nancy D. Butler
#69. Total freedom from your past; both the good and the bad things is the foundation for a successful life.
Sunday Adelaja
#70. 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
#71. Learn from your experiences and past mistakes, assimilate them and convert them to formulas to achieve sustenance first , and then work your way to success to be the leaders in the market.
Henrietta Newton Martin
#72. Respect the past, and prepare for the future by taking action in the present.
Rob Martin
#73. What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill
#74. Don't always seek the approval of others concerning your goals or dreams. Not everyone wants to see you succeed, just because they are not successful.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#75. Forget the past, think of future, remember God's goodness and His power and ability to take you to where you ought to be and establish you.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#76. Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels, but rather on a continuous activity. Keep busy searching out new ideas and, experimentally, keep ahead of the times, or at least up with them.
Dorothy Draper
#77. It doesn't matter how bitter or better the past has been, what we can do with the bitter or better past today is what matters.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#78. If we can ... get them to understand that saying 'no' to drugs is rebelling against their parents and the generations of the past, we'd make it an enormous success.
John Van De Kamp
#79. If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
#80. 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
#81. We have in past been forced into reluctant change by weather, calamity, and plague. Now the pressure comes from our biologic success as a species. We have overcome all enemies but ourselves.
John Steinbeck
#82. Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.
Oprah Winfrey
#83. What you must not do now is to worry and think of the Nationals that is now of the past. What you HABITUALLY THINK largely determines what you will become. Remember, success is a journey, not a destination. I have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.
Bruce Lee
#84. The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#85. Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.
William Osler
#86. To be a success, let go of the past and accept the beauty of change.
Debasish Mridha
#87. We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.
Frances E. Willard
#88. Where does thin become fat? Where does success become failure? Where does a great future become a horrible past full of heartache and regret?
Elena Dunkle
#89. Evolution has been the key tenet of success over the past 13 years, and we have transformed from a single subscription e-commerce image business into a company with a diversified portfolio of content offerings, servicing the needs of businesses of all types and sizes globally.
Jon Oringer
#90. It's quite a scary path to walk on,
When you have no one's past experience to lean on, or learn from.
It's all new and uncharted.
But nothing is finished unless it is started.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#92. For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.
Joan Chen
#93. Today you are no longer a victor nor victim of the past and future, today is completely independent, there are no restrictions; except for the ones you place upon yourself.
Noel DeJesus
#94. Stop thinking of the past, and stop worrying about the future. Just win the day. Achieve the goals you set for every single day, and you'll rebuild your life in a few short years.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#95. If you're planning on quitting, first make sure it's not for one of these reasons:
Fear
Discomfort
Anger
Self-pity
Someone's negative opinions
Past failures
Unrealistic expectations
Charles F. Glassman
#96. No wonder Gran had managed to run a brewery with such success for the past twenty-two years. She was a Machiavelli in skirts.
Sabrina Jeffries
#97. I know you like to be in control and you operate a lot from fear but you have to break the bounds of your past Nicole and rewrite the story you've been telling yourself based off of others experiences. You have to create your own experience, write your own story.
Kathryn Perez
#98. My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.
Steve Maraboli
#99. if she'd learned nothing else over the past few years, she knew that things were not always as they appeared. Success and money had nothing to do with happiness. Hustle and bustle didn't mean better. And simple wasn't synonymous with boring.
Laura Bradford
#100. The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, we learn from our slips all the time, except some people!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
