Top 100 T Change The Past Quotes
#1. The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?
Dennis C. Blair
#2. That's when I realized that part of me would probably always be lost in the past. That just seemed to be my personality: I was the one who couldn't stand change.
Beth Harbison
#3. Apologies aren't meant to change the past, they are meant to change the future.
Kevin Hancock
#4. You can't change the past. But with God's help you can change the future. No matter what your life has been like so far, God wants to put your feet on a new path ... a better path ... His path.
Billy Graham
#5. Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.
Arundhati Roy
#6. I really do see the good in people, and I don't want to change that. That's really how I view things, so sometimes I'll look past a lot of huge red flags because I see something else in someone. Then, of course, it always comes back to haunt me in the long run.
Jennifer Morrison
#7. Even if you time travel your past, it can't be changed, likewise you can't possibly change your future, it is always the present which matters.
Pushpa Rana
#8. Until you're willing to accept what already is - the things of your past that you can't change - there's no space for you to create what you want. Acceptance is the key to unlocking the door to true peace, happiness, and freedom.
Hal Elrod
#9. For our own past is covered by the currents of action,
But the torment of others remains an experience
Unqualified, unworn by subsequent attrition.
People change, and smile: but the agony abides.
T. S. Eliot
#10. MOTHER TIME: The past is always with us, dear, for better or worse. It is what it is and you can't change it. All you can do is learn how to live with it in the present.
Hillary DePiano
#11. You can't change the past and you shouldn't waste energy regretting it or feeling pity for yourself.
Daniel Marques
#12. Accept I can't change the past. I can only concentrate on the now and hope for the future.
Alexandra Ivy
#13. I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your three books and read them and it would still be only five o'clock. The library didn't shut till half past, but you couldn't change the books till the next day.
Fay Weldon
#14. If we deny climate change and don't care about environmental degradation; we are no more than those people who are willing to be stupid because someone else was stupid in the past.
M.F. Moonzajer
#15. We are often wrong about the past, but at least with the past you can change your thinking. We can't do that with the future.
Chuck Klosterman
#16. But you have to let go of it sometime, Gaby. You can't change the past, any of it, and hanging on just eats your life away.
Soheir Khashoggi
#17. Things change whether you want them to, or not
unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.
Patricia Briggs
#18. But you couldn't change the past; you could only alter the way you dealt with it in the present.
Mandasue Heller
#19. You can't change the past. You can't even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
Larry Wall
#20. She can't change the past." "It's not the past she's thinking of." He set his hand briefly on my shoulder. "It's the future.
Sylvia Day
#21. Everyone has a past, but that's just it
it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.
Nicholas Sparks
#22. What's in your past doesn't matter. Neither does what you plan to do at some future time. What matters is what you do with this moment. You have the power to change your life for the better starting right this minute.
Deb Purdy
#23. Life is what you make it. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. You can't change the past, but the future isn't set in stone. You can effect a change there. Move forward not with hatred or love. Move forward with purpose. ========== Dream Chaser (Kenyon, Sherrilyn)
Anonymous
#24. We can't change the past. But we will keep repeating it if we continue to live by the beliefs and agreements set in response to past events.
Julie Tallard Johnson
#25. You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently.
Marty Rubin
#26. Yesterday you can't alter, but your reaction to yesterday you can. The past you cannot change, but your response to your past you can.
Max Lucado
#27. I couldn't change the past, but hell if I didn't want to be what Kate needed now.
Nicole Jacquelyn
#28. I'm not an addict and I do not do drugs. I made mistakes in the past and all I can do is apologize, but it is what it is and I can't change the past. And I can apologize to my family and my friends and my colleagues and the people.
Rob Ford
#30. You can't change the past, only the future, and the only place you could change the future was in the present. That's what they said.
Kate Atkinson
#31. I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.
Marge Piercy
#32. 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
#33. Don't let this anger ruin your life any more than it already has. If you want to every achieve happiness, don't dwell on the past. Instead, start living. What is the point of obsessing that has already happened, and that you cannot change? Live! And be merry.
Kien Nguyen
#35. what has happened is out of your and my control, we can't change that ever, but what we can do is forget. The worse things of past and accept your present with its purity and its real shine, remember my friend this is the only way you can live happily
Pritesh Bhosale
#36. Don't give life to regrets and live on ifs and only, when you can no more unscramble an egg than change the past.
Nadia Janice Brown
#37. It is okay of talking about the past, as long as there's no bitterness and anger. It only gives you a heart attack. It won't change the past either.
Ann Marie Aguilar
#38. In a serious sense, wanting to change something from the past doesn't work for me - change something you don't enjoy now rather than regretting it later.
Rory McIlroy
#39. Forgiveness is a choice. You control how you respond to something or someone. You can't change things that happened in the past, but you can decide how you let them affect you.
Amalie Howard
#40. 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
#41. I do think you can change the past and the present somehow. Even if something has already happened, it doesn't mean it's settled.
Ellen Gallagher
#42. People change as they get older ... grow wiser, make better decisions ... i am very old,Laurel. Anyone who lives as long as I have can't help but collect regrets along the way ... things they did in the past ... things they wish they'd done differently.
Kate Morton
#43. In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.
Garret Dillahunt
#44. Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.
Richard Marcinko
#45. I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worried about it. I can't change it. I can't fix it. It is what it is. I'm just living.
Ryan Sheckler
#46. If people don't like my style, then I can't do anything about that. I have been like that since I first entered into the game and it hasn't done me bad in the past, so I am not going to change now.
Alan Shearer
#47. Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.
James Altucher
#48. You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can
Anne Rice
#49. Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of time.
Bob Newhart
#50. I can't change the past, but that doesn't mean I can't learn from it. I can't the future, but that doesn't mean I can't be ready for it.
Kenneth De Guzman
#51. Although things seem to be sometimes going up and sometimes descending, sometimes slipping away, nevertheless there is a reality, the same today as in the past. It does not change, for nothing can affect it. Could we not say it is one great harmony? So why shouldn't we ask about it ...
Zhuangzi
#52. Don't ever think that you can't change the past.
Kate Bush
#53. If I've learned anything in life, it's that it doesn't help to sit and play a situation over and over again in your head. You can't change the past, but you can shape the future with the right now.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#54. What I am saying is that you have to continue being you. You can't change the past or predict the future. And you can't let him continue to control you.
Kendall Evone Hayes
#55. Once I embraced the dreams that once inspired. Now I've found that there is too much I didn't recognize as a gift. I may be too late to see, cherish, and endure. I may never change, but be forever stuck in the past without realizing until my eyes open to the sun and I have forgotten the moon.
J.D. Stroube
#56. People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the rule.
Jonathan Evison
#57. I feel like I've been through a lot in the past couple of years, But I've kept pretty stable. That's because I channel that emotion into performance. I can handle emotion as long as it's only a song. It works for me, and I don't want to change it. I don't have anything left for writing.
Jennifer Echols
#58. Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment.
Darrin Patrick
#59. Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed.
Ann Brashares
#60. Like a painter, a filmmaker should change their format, their support, despite their career they shouldn't be stuck in a system that is stuck in the past.
Marion Vernoux
#61. The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.
John Berger
#62. I believe our attitude to our problems ultimately determines how we resolve them. If we truly want to be set free, the first thing we need to deal with is our attitude. If you don't get your attitude right, then your life is never going to change.
Corallie Buchanan
#63. You can't change the past,Aunt Lou used to say.Oh, but I wanted to;that was the one thing I really wanted to do
Margaret Atwood
#64. I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.
Harold Brodkey
#65. We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
Albert Ellis
#66. No one is entitled to anything. Everything we get in this life we have worked for. And sometimes we take on baggage we never even signed up for, but that dosen't mean you deserve it. I wake up everyday wishing I could change things, but I can't change past. All I can do is change the future.
E.M. Youman
#67. The past doesn't change, does it?"
"It's still there, same as it ever was. But we see it differently as we get older.
Paul McAuley
#68. We truly live only one day at a time. It doesn't really help to worry about the future, which we can't control, or the past, which we can't change.
Philip Yancey
#69. What's happened has happened. You can't change the past. All you can do is work on making a brighter future.
Jen Calonita
#70. Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future.
Lee Ezell
#71. I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.
Paul Mooney
#72. I've learned that things change, people change, and it doesn't mean you forget the past or try to cover it up. It simply means that you move on and treasure the memories. Letting go doesn't mean giving up ... it means accepting that some things weren't meant to be.
Lisa Brooks
#73. I can't change what has happened in the past, Kaeleigh. I can only promise to make the future better.
Ellen Hopkins
#74. Sometimes the truth is so deep that it takes someone with the same depth to see it, while others can't see past the level they have never moved from.
Shannon L. Alder
#75. Maybe Jasmine was right. Maybe I did always think I was right and want things my own way. That was going to stop right now. I couldn't change the past, but I could change the future, and I could change me. And to do that, I had to put Lester first.
Wendy McLeod MacKnight
#76. I can't change what I did yesterday. I can't change what hasn't happened yet tomorrow. I can only work on the today and the right now.
Just Jewel
#77. I can't change the pain you suffered in the past, but I can do everything possible to prevent the pain you might suffer in the future.
Julie Eshbaugh
#78. No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.
Roy T. Bennett
#79. We can't change anything in the past. All we can do now is take comfort in each other, and the truth that we never need to go back to our dark places.
Emily Faith
#80. I can't make you forgive me. I don't deserve your forgiveness. I can't change the past. All I can do is give you what you want. If this is what you want, I'll walk away, Blaire. It'll kill me but I'll do it.
Abbi Glines
#81. Letting go is to love yourself enough to look at the past with a different perspective. It is to accept that you can't change the past, but that you can change whether your perspective poisons or nourishes you.
Steve Maraboli
#82. My father used to say that life is what you make it. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. You can't change the past, but the future isn't set in stone. You can effect a change there. Move forward not with hatred or love. Move forward with purpose. (Simone)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#83. To change your life, have a new thought and act on it, don't dwell in the past.
Debasish Mridha
#84. My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.
Alex Trebek
#85. You couldn't change the past. You could only go forward
Cassandra Clare
#86. How could Hillary clinton not come off as human! I mean, even Nurse Ratched was human. I don't think people are interested in 30 years of the past, and I don't get this notion of change-maker.
Rush Limbaugh
#87. Only the future matters, Sora. Guilt is an illusion, a way of lingering on the past. You can't change what happened." He held her eyes , carving himself into her mind. "You are alive. That is what you should worry about. Your thoughts can torture you - but not the dead. They've moved on.
T.L. Shreffler
#88. You can't change the past. Even if it hasn't happened yet.
Charlie Fletcher
#89. The past is obdurate. It doesn't want to change.
Stephen King
#90. You can always affect things - so can you change it in a way that will make you as happy with it in the future as you were in the past? Maybe it won't be the same, but it might be something else you also like.
Jamie Zawinski
#91. I won't lie. I want to beat the hell out of any man who's had you - you'd be smart to keep them the hell away from me - but nothing in your past can change how I feel about you.
Sylvia Day
#92. But you couldn't really start over. That was a huge, modern lie invented by talk-show hosts. Sure you could change things that improved your life, but all the bad stuff lingered. It lingered in your body compromising your organs.
Elizabeth Brundage
#93. You can't change the past, but all of us have the power to change the future.
Michael Hyatt
#94. You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ... is to press play.
Jay Asher
#95. He planet is just too small for these developing countries to repeat the economic growth in the same way that the rich countries have done it in the past. We don't have enough natural resources, we don't have enough atmosphere. Clearly, something has to change.
Mario J. Molina
#96. I can't change the past, Tate. I wish I could, because I'd go back and relive every day that I existed without you, and I'd make sure that you smiled." My eyes burned with regret, and I saw the pools in her beautiful blues, too. "Every minute of my future belongs to you.
Penelope Douglas
#97. He couldn't change the past, and he couldn't control the future. But he would beat the present into submission.
Joel Ohman
#98. She couldn't alter the past but this was her chance to change the future.
Max Lucado
#99. You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.
Pat Benatar
#100. It's happened. It's in the past. You can't change it. You are not broken. Learn from the past, then build from it.
Tony Curl
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