I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.
RihannaIt’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI used to get into a lot of fights.
Dwayne JohnsonTake time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
Jim RohnAn egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
Benjamin FranklinI will never retire unless I have to.
Dolly PartonPeople respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
Joel OsteenMy public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?
Marilyn MonroeI will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.
George H. W. BushYou have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
Taylor SwiftHistory, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya AngelouWhat’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.
Bill GatesOnly you can control your future.
Dr. SeussLegacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.
Bill GatesWhen one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Alexander Graham BellWe will burn that bridge when we come to it.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
Brian EnoNever let yesterday use up too much of today.
Will RogersThe investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.
Warren BuffettIf you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.
Joyce MeyerI don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerWhen you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that’s Memoirs.
Will RogersInvest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
Brian TracyYou can’t go backward in life.
Jordan PetersonDiscontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
Eckhart TolleWhen I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.
Taylor SwiftSee, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.
Joel OsteenIn three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert FrostA lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.
John C. MaxwellNo work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan WattsIf you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.
Jim MattisOur real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
Dwight D. EisenhowerIt’s hard for a player to plan for the future, especially in a game like football.
Sunil ChhetriWe can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.
Greta ThunbergThere are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
Franklin D. RooseveltIt’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.
Angelina JolieThings won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.
Jocko WillinkI don’t regret anything.
Amy WinehouseWe keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Walt DisneyBe nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.
Steven WrightWhat we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can’t get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.
Colin PowellI’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
Brian EnoI don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.
Karl LagerfeldPrejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can’t move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.
Bob MarleyI’ve taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.
Clint EastwoodI was a thug.
Frank OceanPeople aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.
Kurt VonnegutWhat’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
F. Scott FitzgeraldIn this bright future you can’t forget your past.
Bob MarleyThe only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan WattsIt’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
Dan QuayleIt is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac AsimovHas this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. LewisWe have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we’re so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also plastic. If plastic vanished, there would be total chaos. We have to think quite carefully about using oil and its derivatives, because it’s not going to be around forever.
Margaret AtwoodThe future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.
Barack ObamaNever look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Henry David ThoreauIf I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.
Joe BidenA great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI’m trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.
Elon MuskIt is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
Winston Churchill