The Past Is Your Lesson Quotes

#1. The past is your LESSON. The present is your GIFT. The future is your MOTIVATION.

Zig Ziglar

#2. When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#3. Your past is where you learned the lesson. Now is when you get to apply it.

Karen Salmansohn

#4. Every event has a purpose and every setback a lesson. Failure is essential to personal expansion. It brings inner growth and a whole host of psychic rewards. Never regret your past. Rather embrace it as the teacher it is.

Robin S. Sharma

#5. Learning your lesson from a mistake is healthy, but living forever in the emotions of your past mistakes is toxic and debilitating.

Bryant McGill

#6. I've learned that everything happens for a reason," the yogi Krishnan told him. "Every event has a why and all adversity teaches us a lesson ... Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.

Robin S. Sharma

#7. Lesson learned: Don't ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It's too easy for him to tip over and fall off.

Kate Madison

#8. Learn the lesson of your pain

Gary Null

#9. My wartime experiences developing a code that utilized the Navajo language taught how important our Navajo culture is to our country. For me that is the central lesson: that diverse cultures can make a country richer and stronger.

Chester Nez

#10. We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.

D.H. Lawrence

#11. What if the idea of Mr. Right is completely false? What if there is no Mr. Wrong? What if every relationship-no matter how brief-contains a priceless lesson allowing you to grow and evolve into your grandest self?

Marie Forleo

#12. The clear lesson of New England's history is that when there are not enough suitable men around to run the world, women are perfectly capable of doing so.

Wallace Stegner

#13. Working with Michael Chiklis is a lesson in professionalism and staying focused. That's what Chiklis brings all day long.

Sean Faris

#14. Craster is his own man. He has sworn us no vows. Nor is he subject to our laws. Your heart is noble, Jon, but learn a lesson here. We cannot set the world to rights. That is not our purpose. The Night's Watch has other wars to fight.

George R R Martin

#15. The thought went through my mind that we should film ourselves in our sexual act, and project our frenzied copulation permanently onto the walls of the tea-room, as a lesson to wake up the boring people who drank tea here, and to show them what life was really all about.

Fiona Thrust

#16. I think that's the lesson of this story: you never know what is going to happen.

Mindy Kaling

#17. Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around
beds, pillows, arms, laps.

Patti Davis

#18. But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.

Jonathan Franzen